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1933 - 2020

Rita Billig Glanz

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Photos & Documents

  • Rita Billig

  • Rita Billig and Freda Morgan at the beach

  • Rita Billig and Harry Morgan at the beach

  • Rita in front of Morgan's home in Coventry, before they moved to Gypsy Lane in Nuneaton

  • Unknown friend, Harry Morgan, Rita, Freda Morgan

  • Rita, Ernst, Marjorie Moore (with glasses), unknown friend

  • Ernst and Rita with Marjorie Moore

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

  • Rita as young woman

  • Abisch Billig with daughter Rita Billig Glanz and her daughter Gina Glanz

  • Ernst Billig and Rita Billig Glanz, Pittsburgh, 2016

More Information

Name in US
Rita Billig
Name at Birth
Rita Billig
Married Name
Rita Billig Glanz
Parents' Name

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

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

Married 1931, Vienna

Date of Birth
March 18, 1933
Country of Birth
Austria
City of Birth
Vienna
Sibling(s) Name(s)

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

Spouse(s) Name(s)

William Glanz
(1921 Rostock, Germany – 2008)

Religious Identity (Prewar)
Jewish
Religious Identity (Postwar)
Jewish
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

Year / City / Ship to US
May 13, 1946 / New York, NY / SS Drottningholm
Date Moved to Alabama
1946
Alabama City of Residence
Birmingham
Date of Death
September 23, 2020
City of Death
Grand Rapids, MI
City of Burial / Cemetery
Woodbridge, NJ / Beth Israel Cemetery
Dates Lived in Alabama
1946-1948

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