Person: Natalie/Lucy Schimeck/Schimek, geb. Löbel

Tochter von Eduard Löbel und Ernestine Löbel
Schwester von Valerie Kurth
Ehefrau von Herbert Sandor Schimek (18.11.1893-2.4.1933 Suizid)
Mutter von (Hans-Georg) Jean Georges Schimek (4.10.1928-18.6.2002)

Zeitpunkt der Abwanderung 1.5.1939 nach Frankreich (laut Gestapo Berlin in: BLHA 36a OFP Berlin-Brandenburg II 33793 Schimeck, Natalie)
Mit Sohn zunächst in die Schweiz (6.4.1943), dann Mutter Natalie Schimeck nach Paris zu ihren Eltern.1942 beide verhaftet und in das KZ nach Gurs deportiert, nach Freilassung Versteck in französischem Dorf, nach dem Krieg: Zuzug nach Paris

Herbert Schimeck beging 1933 Suizid. Er war Besitzer der Firma Josef Schimek (Papierwaren, Altpapierverwertung).
1939: Sohn Hans auf Internatsschule nach Gstaad/Schweiz geschickt, während Natalie Schimeck in Paris Zuflucht suchte.

"When Natalie finally left Germany in April 1939, her exit visa was to go to Shanghai (I have seen the passport), via Marseille. Instead she went to Paris to join her parents, who had left Vienna in March 1938. My father had been in boarding school at the Chalet Flora in Gstaad, Switzerland. The four of them were refugees in France (and Switzerland) for the rest of the war. Natalie and Jean were arrested in summer 1942 and held at the Camp de Gurs in southern France. Natalie's parents, who were not arrested because they were over 65, paid a bribe to the camp guards. Officially the story was that they were of Romanian nationality, not German, because Natalie was a widow born in Romania. Jews from Germany, but not Romania, were on the Vichy list of who could be arrested, and they were released after a few weeks. Others were deported to Auschwitz from Gurs. From the camp, they were in contact with CIMADE, a French protestant organization that provided aid to refugees, and, covertly, found hiding places for them in French protestant villages. Natalie spent the rest of the war in one of these villages, but Jean was sent to Switzerland on his own via Annemasse. He walked across the border into Geneva with a group of other children, and was able to spend the rest of the war there. The family reunited in Paris in 1945, and Jean immigrated to the USA in 1947. Natalie (who was called Lucy) remained in Paris the rest of her life." Email von Paul Schimek vom 4.2.2022

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zahlreiche WGAkten im Landesarchiv Berlin
Blha 36A (II) 33793

https://www.geni.com/people/Natalie-L%C3%B6bel/6000000000750381530
https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5543715

• Auftraggeber:in Natalie/Lucy Schimeck/Schimek, geb. Löbel