Franzi Groszmann, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Franzi Groszmann

LAst survivor of the Knidertransport

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1904

Date of Death: 20-Sep-2005

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Franzi Groszmann

  • Franziska "Franzi" Stern Groszmann (December 27, 1904 – September 20, 2005) was possibly the last surviving mother of the Kindertransport.
  • She sent her daughter (born 1928), now a writer known as Lore Segal, to England following Kristallnacht.
  • Groszmann's husband, Ignatz, a Vienna accountant before the Holocaust, died at the end of World War II following a series of strokes. Segal, with her mother and grandmother, emigrated to New York City from the Dominican Republic in 1951 and lived together in a small apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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