NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Original document digitized on December 2019 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Madeline, Martin and Howard Gottlieb. Collected through the Brooklyn Collection Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
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TitleThe Gottlieb family. Small boy and girl standing on sidewalk on the Lower East Side.
Biographical NoteThe Gottlieb family came after World War II to America in 1947. Both Alexander and Regina (Rivka, nee Kanner) were originally from Poland, Alexander from Borislaw and Regina from Lodz Ghetto. Both were holocaust survivors. Regina and her sister Esther were deported to Auschwitz, then transferred to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where they were liberated. Alexander was sent to Dachau. They met in a displaced persons camp in Naples, Italy, where Madeline was born. Regina’s father, Menahem Mendel Kanner, was travelling in America with a group of rabbis when the war began. He could not bring his family to America nor go back to Poland so he settled on the Lower East Side. His sister had settled in Brooklyn around 1900. She brought Regina, Alexander and the whole surviving family to America after the war. They first lived on the Lower East Side where Alexander opened a haberdashery store. Soon after the birth of their son Martin in 1948 they moved to Brooklyn, where their youngest child Howard was born in 1953.