Felicitas Luft

In 2013 a book from the Luft family was returned.

Felicitas Luft was born on April 24, 1929 and lived with her parents in Berlin. On December 25, 1934 Felicitas' brother Wolfgang was born in Berlin. Her mother Fina/Phina Luft née Burger died at the age of 36 in 1936 in Berlin. Her father Simon was a shoemaker in Berlin and owner of a cobbler shop.

Simon, Felicitas and Wolfgang Luft were persecuted as Jewish. Simon had to do froced labor in Friedrichsfelde for the company Kunz & Co. and was deported to the Minsk Ghetto on November 14, 1941.

A family member organized the escape from Germany for Felicitas and Wolfgang by Kindertransport. They emigrated to the Netherlands in December 1938, via detours to Utrecht, where they lived in the Centraal Israëlitisch Weeshuis ("Central Jewish Orphanage"). The planned emigration to Brazil could not be arranged in time for Felicitas and Wolfgang Luft. In October 1942 all employees and inhabitants of the orphanage were deported, Wolfgang and Felicitas to the transit camp Westerbork. Both were deported on 25 February 1944 from Westerbork to Terezín Ghetto and on 23 October 1944 to Auschwitz extermination camp, where they were murdered.

Hidden between the pages of the restituted book were a postcard from 1916, presumably from a relative of Simon Luft, as well as a passbook of the Berliner Sparkasse, issued to Felicitas Luft, Berlin-Neukölln, Berlinerstr. 14 in 1930.