Jan de Boer Johanna Hillegonda Schenk Margaretha Johanna Stahlhöfer Pieter Johannes Kramer Adrianus Frederik de Boer Anna Agnieta Kramer Oskar Balder Else Winkler Egon May Gerda Balder Ruth Else Gerda May Pieter Johannes de Boer |
1856-1931 1858-1931 1878-1936 1876-1943 1895-1973 1897-1972 1875-1942 1877-1963 1886-1940 1900-1980 1932 1923-1996 |
Overview DE / PL In Germany around 1866 Siegmund May was born, with his wife Anna Löwe he had at least one son Egon May, born in Breslau (DE), now Wroclaw (PL). After being devorced from his first wife Anna Masuhr, Egon married in Berlin (DE) the daughter of Oskar Balder and Else Winkler, named Gerda Balder, born in Posen (DE), now Poznan (PL). Their daughter Ruth May is born in Amsterdam (NL) and raised in Naarden (NL). The Balder ancestors are traced back from about 1775, the Winkler's from about 1800. Gerda Balder and her family moved to Freiburg in Schlesien before Posen in 1920, after WW-I became Polish. Her family had to leave Freiburg when, this farmer-village south-west of Breslau, in 1945 after WW-II became Polish. They lost their house and all their possesions. In the summer of 2005 Ruth May and Roland de Boer made a trip (to visit the archives) to Berlin in Germany and travelled to Poznan (Posen), Wroclaw (Breslau), Swiebodzice (Freiburg in Schlesien) in Poland. Ruth has been here 65 years ago during WW-II when her grandfather Oskar died in 1942. She and her mother got permission to travel from the Netherlands to Germany. |
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