Missing child - Berlin to Lodz - bet. 07.1939 and 02.1940 - BECKERMAN(N)

[davidarikempner@gmail.com davidarikempner@gmail.com]

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I have two major mysteries in my family research, one of which I believe
will be solved by purchasing a birth record through the Polish State
Archives in Lodz - any additional, helpful pointers on doing this outside
of the information on JRI-Poland's web page "Ordering records from the
Polish State Archives" would be appreciated - and the other I am
requesting assistance with here.

One of my father's 1st cousins disappears amidst the different records
that I have reviewed. His name is/was Charly BECKERMAN (born 31.07.1933 or
31.08.1933, son of Heinz (Chaim) BECKERMAN(N) and Charlotte (Szarlota)
(Lotta) BECKERMAN(N) nee JANKLOWITZ (my great aunt)). Charly had a younger
brother Jackie.

Per one source all four are listed as having "emigrated" from Berlin,
Germany to Poland on 28.07.1939 and ended up, eventually, in the Lodz
Ghetto. Through both JRI-Poland and the JewishGen All Poland
Database - in the Lodz Ghetto List - all but Charly can be found.

My father, who was sent away in 1936 from Berlin by his parents, received
150 letters from family members from the time he left; however partially
as expected, none describe what happened to Charly. I believe that there
are three possibilities:

1. He made it to the Ghetto and somehow went undocumented. This one I find
difficult if not impossible to believe.

2. He died or was killed between leaving Berlin and his family arriving in
Lodz.

3. The one that I am so hoping for - he was sent away as the older of the
BECKERMAN(N)'s two children perhaps through the Kindertransport before the
remaining three family members "emigrated" to Lodz. (I have checked this
and he does not appear in the Kindertransport records.

Perhaps he might have been one of the "One Thousand Children" - actually
1,400 children that were saved by Jewish families in the United States.)
The addresses that the members of this family lived at in the Lodz Ghetto
are as follows:

Sulzfelder Strasse
39 Flat 14

Franz Strasse
40 Flat 30

Siegfried Strasse
10 Flat 9

Kelm Strasse 10

Any and all help, recommendations, or suggestions that anyone can
provide would be deeply appreciated.

Thank you,
David Ari Kempner
Columbia, MD USA

Researching: KEMPNER (Germany, Poland and the UK),
JANKLOWITZ (CZ) (Germany and Poland), LAKSER (LAXER) (Russia,
Rumania, Germany, UK and France), CYGER (Poland), COHEN
(CAHANE) (Russia), TICKTINSKY (Russia), MENSCH (Austria, Galicia)
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