| AdminHistory | Helga and Irene Bejach were two German Jewis girls who escaped the increasingly hostile environment for Jewish people in Germany on the kinderstransport in 1939. Helga first stayed with a Mrs Hancock and then both girls moved to stay with the Attenborough family from 1939-1946. They were able to emigrate to America following the end of the Second World War, to join their father's brothers and family. Their mother had died of TB before the war and their father Curt and elder sister, Jutta remained in Germany. Curt was taken to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz in 1944 and is assumed to haev died there; Jutta also moved to America following the end of the war.
Helga was passionate about dance, studying at the Ginner Mawer school when it was evactuated to Cornwall, and became a dance teacher. She married Herman Waldman and died in 2005; they had 2 daughters, Beverly and Hilary. (Obituary here https://davidcgross.com/tribute/details/136237/Helga-Waldman/obituary.html)
Irene married Samuel Goudsmit, a physicist, in 1960; he died in 1978 and she died in 1994. |