Lola Braunsberg Eldodt Farber

Berlin, Germany

1926 - 2025

“We had no time to be afraid. We knew where we were going and why we had to leave home. That, however, did not stop us from feeling bewildered and anxious about what the future would have in store for us.”  – Yvonne Braunsberg Wagner (Sister who accompanied Lola on the Kindertransport)

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Name in US
Leonore (Lola) Eldodt
Name at Birth
Leonore Braunsberg
Married Name
Leonore (Lola) Braunsberg Eldodt
Date of Birth

05/13/1926

Country of Birth
Germany
City of Birth

Berlin

Parents

Erna Johanna Gutmann
(02/28/1896 Dessau, Germany – 01/05/1941 Leipzig, Germany)

Franz Hermann Braunsberg
(03/29/1888 Breuna, Germany – 12/09/1944 Auschwitz)
Deported to Theresienstadt 09/20/1942

Married in 1919

Sibling(s)

Peter Heinz Braunsberg
(01/26/1921 Berlin, Germany – 09/04/1942 Auschwitz)
Deported from Drancy 04/09/1942, Transport #28

Margarete “Gretel” Esther Braunsberg (Spouse: Fritz Heinrich “Fred” Guggenheimer “Grant”)
(08/29/1922 Berlin, Germany – 12/27/1982 London, England)
Left on Kindertransport in June 1939, a month after Lola and Yvonne

Yvonne Renate Braunsberg (Spouse: Klaus Peter Wagner)
(09/02/1929 Berlin, Germany – 03/20/2021 Miami, FL)
Left on Kindertransport with Lola on 05/03/1939
Shoah Testimony # 34078

Spouse(s)

Spouse #1: Joseph (Joe) Eldodt
(04/25/1908 Breuna, Germany – 05/17/1980 Selma, AL)
Married August 4, 1945 in London, England

Spouse #2: David Joseph Farber
(11/04/1917 New York City – 09/13/1991 Prince George County, MD)

Children

Joan Emily Eldodt (Spouse 1: Dr. Marc Berger; Spouse 2: Rabbi Sherwood Weil)
(Born 05/10/1946 Selma, AL)

Linda Carol Eldodt (Spouse 1: John Voynich; Spouse 2: Dr. James Bartling)

Religious Identity (Prewar)
Jewish
Religious Identity (Postwar)
Jewish
Dates Lived in Alabama

1946-circa 1980

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Selma
Date and City of Death
02/12/2025 Silver Springs, MD
Other Experiences

05/03/1939: Left Leipzig, Germany on the Kindertransport to England with her sister Yvonne.
Her sister Gretel left a month later.

Met her husband, Joe, in England, where he was stationed as an American GI

Year / Ship to US / Arrival City
January 30, 1946 / via airplane / Fort Fairfield, Maine
Dates Lived in Alabama

1946-circa 1980

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Selma
Date and City of Death
02/12/2025 Silver Springs, MD
Additional Resources

Eldodt-Oppenheimer Family Tree

USC Shoah Foundation
Yvonne Renate Braunsberg Wagner (sister)
Interview #34078
September 28, 1997 | Bethesda, MD