Rita Billig Glanz

Vienna, Austria

1933 - 2020

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Rita and Ernst with Marjorie Moore (with glasses) and unknown friend.

Ernst and Rita with Marjorie Moore.

Ernst and Rita Billig with Suse Herz (Rosenstock), another Kindertransport child. They are in front of the SS Drottningholm just before leaving for New York. 1946.

Abisch Billig with daughter Rita Billig Glanz and her daughter, Gina Glanz.

Ernst Billig and sister, Rita Billig Glanz, on the occasion of his grandson's bar mitzvah. Pittsburgh, 2016.

Profile

Personal & Family

Name in US
Rita Billig

Name at Birth
Rita Billig

Married Name
Rita Billig Glanz

Date of Birth

03/18/1933

Country of Birth
Austria

City of Birth

Vienna

Parents

Cheine Gittel “Gusti” Silber
(1895 Brody – 1940 Vienna)

Abisch (Adolf) Billig
(1892 Brody – 1981 New York, NY)

Married 1931, Vienna

Sibling(s)

Ernst Billig (Nancy Scher)
Born March 30, 1935 Vienna, Austria

Spouse(s)

William Glanz
(1921 Rostock, Germany – 2008)

Religious Identity (Prewar)
Jewish

Religious Identity (Postwar)
Jewish

Dates Lived in Alabama

1946-1948

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Birmingham

Date and City of Death
09/23/2020, Grand Rapids, MI

City of Burial / Cemetery
Woodbridge, NJ / Beth Israel Cemetery

Holocaust

Other Experiences

Left Vienna July 12, 1939 with her brother, Ernst, on a British Kindertransport

Lived in Coventry then Nuneaton, England with Harry and Freda Morgan for six years

Immigration to US sponsored by Nesche Billig Schattner & Philip Schattner

Immigration & Postwar

Year / Ship to US / Arrival City
May 13, 1946 / SS Drottningholm / New York, NY