Rosi Spier (Spier)

State:
Surviving
Gender:
female
Maiden name:
Spier
So called:
-
Alias:
-
Date of birth:
05. Dezember 1902
Residence:
Not known
Place of persecution:
Not known
Date of death:
05. März 1986
Deceased in:
Not known
LEA file number:
Spouse:
Not known
Date and place of marriage:
Not known
Mother:
Father:
Siblings:
Children:
Not known
*Hidden due to legal regulations

Vita

(MK) At the age of nineteen, in 1920, Rosi Spier determined to leave her hometwon near Wiesbaden. She had completed the equivalent of high school and had taken a secretarial course.
Then I met my future husband through my brother. They had been students togehter. We were engaged for five years.
Rosi Spier's marriage proved a difficult one and hortly after the death of her first child, a daughter, she began divorce proceedings.
son was born in Frankfurt while her husband was away in France
1937 divorced
took a job in Frankfurt am Main, as a secretary in a welfare organizsation
took a course in a Jewish organization in Berlin to become a social worker
became the social worker of a school in Bad Nauheim, founded by the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden, until 1939
emigrated to New York in February 1939
worked as a maid in Brooklyn
A social worker in Berlin, Rosi Spier was a divorced mother with a young son when she came to America in February 1939. Her first child, a daughter, had died at an early age. Much of the time in Germany and then at first in America, she was unable to have her son
live with her because of the kinds of jobs that were open to her. She worked for a time taking care of a camp director's child in Vermont while her son was living in New York. Through a connection to the Warburg family, she was able to arrange for her brother's emigration to America. (106)
was a companion to a mentally sick lady, Dr. Albert Sondheimer's wife
started a kindergarten together with her brother
in 1942 moved into the apartment that housed the school at 436 Fort Washington Avenue
went to college at night, Bank Street College
worked at the kindergarten until retirement in 1970

Notes

(geni.com) Tochter von Levy Spier und Dora Spier
Ehefrau von Josef Klibansky
Mutter von Privat und Sonja Spier
Schwester von Dr. Arthur Spier