Ilse Vera (gen. Mima) Gärtner (Kaufherr)
Vita
(MK) a very happy home life with wonderful Jewish people, quite religious, in a very small town but very beautiful, Ruppichteroth near Cologne
a very spoiled child, the youngest of five children
forced to leave school in 1933
left home and went to live with a cousin in Cologne
worked first for a family and then in a delicatessen store until 1935
left on her own in 1937 and went to the United States on the Deutschland (60)
lived in Newark for a few months with one of her sisters, then went to Rutland, Vermont, to stay with another sister and her husband. He was from Vienna and had come over at the end of World War I. (188)
came to New York a year laterworked as a nursemaid for a family with small children, first at a summer resort in upstate New York and then in the Bronx. In 1939, she was married to another German Jewish refugee and moved to Washington Heights.
first child, a daughter, while she held down tow jobs, working five days a week at a bakery and three nights a week as a cashier in a restaurant
(findagrave.com) Per Alabama Divorce Index:
Spouse 1 Max Kaufherr
Spouse 2 Ilse Kaufherr
Divorce Date Sep 1957
County Jefferson
Bestattung: Beth-El Cemetery, Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
Grabstelle, Block 20 Congregation SHAARE TIKVA
Remarques
(findagrave.com) Ehemann Max Kaufherr 1914–1999 (verh. 1942)
(MK uncle Hermann, the best butcher in the neighborhood
two sisters and a brother already [1936] living in the USA
one brother and parents left behind
both parents dies at Theresienstadt