Eileen S. Shares Family Treasures with Grade 5
While Elise Healy and Rosie Waugh’s grade 5 class was learning and reading about the Holocaust, Eileen S. (Michael ‘17), daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Paul, Hannah and Henry Reichenberg, spoke to Michael’s class about what happened to her father and his family in their hometown of Frankfurt, Germany, before and during the Holocaust. Mrs. S. told the class that her dad (then age 5) and his parents were very lucky to board one of the last passenger ships with Jews on it out of Germany in August 1941. They sailed to Barcelona, Spain, and then later came to America, landing at Ellis Island. Her grandparents moved to Baltimore where they were sponsored by a cousin. Her grandmother, Hannah Reichenberg, an artist in Germany before the war, became one of the first women draftspersons for the City of Baltimore. Mrs. S. had many original documents to show the students, including the suitcase her father’s family used to bring their most important belongings with them when they left Germany. The class could see “Barcelona” painted on it and a sticker that said “Frankfurt,” and their street address in Germany, 10 Stettenstrasse.
