Alexander & Zinaida Eliasberg

Alexander Eliasberg, born in Minsk in 1878, was a writer and translator. He was married to Zinaida, née Schapseil (probably born in 1882). Both lived in Munich, where their son Paul was born in 1907. In 1923 the Eliasberg family was defamed as "East Jewish", expelled from Bavaria and moved to Berlin. Alexander Eliasberg died there on 26 July 1924 in the hospital of the Jewish community.

Zinaida and Paul Eliasberg then moved to Paris in 1926, where Paul continued his training as a visual artist begun in Berlin with Paul Ranson and Roger Bissière. After serving briefly in the French army in 1939, as a stateless Jew he lived with his wife, the Bavarian-born artist Jeanne Gedon (1904-1991), and their daughter in the south of France, where he took part in resistance activities. After the end of the war, the Eliasberg family returned to Paris and obtained French citizenship. Paul continued to work as a graphic artist throughout his life, living in Germany and France. He died in Hamburg on 1 October 1983.

Nothing else is known about the further life of Zinaida Eliasberg. The date of her death is assumed to be 1966.

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