SCHIPPER--Sabine Gabriele, 90, passed away on July 17 in Medford, New Jersey.
Born January 7, 1927 in Breslau, Germany, her life was an extraordinary odyssey of resilience. Her parents, Georg and Edith Frohlich, evacuated Sabine and her only sibling, Andreas, via the Kindertransport to England after Kristallnacht in 1938. Although raised and educated as Catholics, Sabine and her brother were deemed Jewish by Nazi laws because her grandparents were Jewish.
In the summer of 1939, Sabine and her brother rejoined their parents in then neutral Holland, awaiting visas for the United States. The family became trapped in Amsterdam when the Nazis invaded in May 1940. In June of 1941, the Nazis and their Dutch collaborators rounded up Andreas with about 300 other young men of Jewish ancestry in Amsterdam in retaliation for a Dutch act of sabotage. Andreas perished in Mauthausen, a concentration camp in Austria, in October of 1941, two weeks after his 20th birthday.
With help from the friends of Andreas, Sabine and her family were given false identities and went into hiding in the countryside of North Holland where Sabine eventually met Cornelis Schipper, a Dutch Resistance leader who helped her family find hiding places and arranged for rations. Her Father's published wartime diary "Huis Elastiek" and Play "The Quarry" by David Gooderson tell the harrowing story of survival.
Sabine married Cornelis after the war and they immigrated to the United States in 1947. While Cor built up a flower bulb import business now known as Colorblends Wholesale Flowerbulbs, Sabine raised five children in Harrison, New York.
Active in the League of Women Voters and volunteer work for the elderly, she received a B'nai Brith award for her advocacy for housing and services for senior citizens. After moving to Haddonfield, New Jersey, Sabine volunteered at a Camden non-profit agency that provided legal assistance to the elderly. A lover of the arts, she held season tickets to ballet, theater and orchestra performances.
Sabine is survived by Cor Schipper, her husband of 70 years, five children, Agnes Schipper, Dorothea Schipper Fenwick, Andreas, Christopher and Timothy Schipper, 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations should be sent to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Ursuline School of New Rochelle or the Leo Baeck Institute.
Published in The New York Times on Sept. 10, 2017
Born January 7, 1927 in Breslau, Germany, her life was an extraordinary odyssey of resilience. Her parents, Georg and Edith Frohlich, evacuated Sabine and her only sibling, Andreas, via the Kindertransport to England after Kristallnacht in 1938. Although raised and educated as Catholics, Sabine and her brother were deemed Jewish by Nazi laws because her grandparents were Jewish.
In the summer of 1939, Sabine and her brother rejoined their parents in then neutral Holland, awaiting visas for the United States. The family became trapped in Amsterdam when the Nazis invaded in May 1940. In June of 1941, the Nazis and their Dutch collaborators rounded up Andreas with about 300 other young men of Jewish ancestry in Amsterdam in retaliation for a Dutch act of sabotage. Andreas perished in Mauthausen, a concentration camp in Austria, in October of 1941, two weeks after his 20th birthday.
With help from the friends of Andreas, Sabine and her family were given false identities and went into hiding in the countryside of North Holland where Sabine eventually met Cornelis Schipper, a Dutch Resistance leader who helped her family find hiding places and arranged for rations. Her Father's published wartime diary "Huis Elastiek" and Play "The Quarry" by David Gooderson tell the harrowing story of survival.
Sabine married Cornelis after the war and they immigrated to the United States in 1947. While Cor built up a flower bulb import business now known as Colorblends Wholesale Flowerbulbs, Sabine raised five children in Harrison, New York.
Active in the League of Women Voters and volunteer work for the elderly, she received a B'nai Brith award for her advocacy for housing and services for senior citizens. After moving to Haddonfield, New Jersey, Sabine volunteered at a Camden non-profit agency that provided legal assistance to the elderly. A lover of the arts, she held season tickets to ballet, theater and orchestra performances.
Sabine is survived by Cor Schipper, her husband of 70 years, five children, Agnes Schipper, Dorothea Schipper Fenwick, Andreas, Christopher and Timothy Schipper, 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations should be sent to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Ursuline School of New Rochelle or the Leo Baeck Institute.
Published in The New York Times on Sept. 10, 2017
SCHIPPER--Sabine Gabriele, 90, passed away on July 17 in Medford, New Jersey.
Born January 7, 1927 in Breslau, Germany, her life was an extraordinary odyssey of resilience. Her parents, Georg and Edith Frohlich, evacuated Sabine and her only sibling, Andreas, via the Kindertransport to England after Kristallnacht in 1938. Although raised and educated as Catholics, Sabine and her brother were deemed Jewish by Nazi laws because her grandparents were Jewish.
In the summer of 1939, Sabine and her brother rejoined their parents in then neutral Holland, awaiting visas for the United States. The family became trapped in Amsterdam when the Nazis invaded in May 1940. In June of 1941, the Nazis and their Dutch collaborators rounded up Andreas with about 300 other young men of Jewish ancestry in Amsterdam in retaliation for a Dutch act of sabotage. Andreas perished in Mauthausen, a concentration camp in Austria, in October of 1941, two weeks after his 20th birthday.
With help from the friends of Andreas, Sabine and her family were given false identities and went into hiding in the countryside of North Holland where Sabine eventually met Cornelis Schipper, a Dutch Resistance leader who helped her family find hiding places and arranged for rations. Her Father's published wartime diary "Huis Elastiek" and Play "The Quarry" by David Gooderson tell the harrowing story of survival.
Sabine married Cornelis after the war and they immigrated to the United States in 1947. While Cor built up a flower bulb import business now known as Colorblends Wholesale Flowerbulbs, Sabine raised five children in Harrison, New York.
Active in the League of Women Voters and volunteer work for the elderly, she received a B'nai Brith award for her advocacy for housing and services for senior citizens. After moving to Haddonfield, New Jersey, Sabine volunteered at a Camden non-profit agency that provided legal assistance to the elderly. A lover of the arts, she held season tickets to ballet, theater and orchestra performances.
Sabine is survived by Cor Schipper, her husband of 70 years, five children, Agnes Schipper, Dorothea Schipper Fenwick, Andreas, Christopher and Timothy Schipper, 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations should be sent to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Ursuline School of New Rochelle or the Leo Baeck Institute.
Published in The New York Times on Sept. 10, 2017
Born January 7, 1927 in Breslau, Germany, her life was an extraordinary odyssey of resilience. Her parents, Georg and Edith Frohlich, evacuated Sabine and her only sibling, Andreas, via the Kindertransport to England after Kristallnacht in 1938. Although raised and educated as Catholics, Sabine and her brother were deemed Jewish by Nazi laws because her grandparents were Jewish.
In the summer of 1939, Sabine and her brother rejoined their parents in then neutral Holland, awaiting visas for the United States. The family became trapped in Amsterdam when the Nazis invaded in May 1940. In June of 1941, the Nazis and their Dutch collaborators rounded up Andreas with about 300 other young men of Jewish ancestry in Amsterdam in retaliation for a Dutch act of sabotage. Andreas perished in Mauthausen, a concentration camp in Austria, in October of 1941, two weeks after his 20th birthday.
With help from the friends of Andreas, Sabine and her family were given false identities and went into hiding in the countryside of North Holland where Sabine eventually met Cornelis Schipper, a Dutch Resistance leader who helped her family find hiding places and arranged for rations. Her Father's published wartime diary "Huis Elastiek" and Play "The Quarry" by David Gooderson tell the harrowing story of survival.
Sabine married Cornelis after the war and they immigrated to the United States in 1947. While Cor built up a flower bulb import business now known as Colorblends Wholesale Flowerbulbs, Sabine raised five children in Harrison, New York.
Active in the League of Women Voters and volunteer work for the elderly, she received a B'nai Brith award for her advocacy for housing and services for senior citizens. After moving to Haddonfield, New Jersey, Sabine volunteered at a Camden non-profit agency that provided legal assistance to the elderly. A lover of the arts, she held season tickets to ballet, theater and orchestra performances.
Sabine is survived by Cor Schipper, her husband of 70 years, five children, Agnes Schipper, Dorothea Schipper Fenwick, Andreas, Christopher and Timothy Schipper, 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations should be sent to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Ursuline School of New Rochelle or the Leo Baeck Institute.
Published in The New York Times on Sept. 10, 2017
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