Suzan "Selma" Schmidt

Suzan Schmidt, later Suzan Ettlinger, was born on 26 August 1914 in Chemnitz, a daughter of Leib Schmidt and Chaja Debora Schneeweiss. On 1 December 1936, in Chemnitz, she married Albert Gert Ettlinger. In October 1937 the couple sailed from Hamburg aboard the S.S. President Roosevelt, arriving in New York on 23 October; by April 1938, when she filed her declaration of intention to naturalise, they were living at 11 Manhattan Avenue. By 1942 they had moved to Meriden, Connecticut, where a naturalisation hearing was scheduled for them in February 1944 and where they raised four children — Leonore Nannette, Roy, Shirley and Vivian. In 1966 the local paper reported her leaving to visit family and fellow exiles in Israel. Suzan died in Hartford on 6 March 1983 and is buried at the Meriden Hebrew (B'nai Abraham) Cemetery.