Documentation related to the Grau and Brunell families from Berlin, 1895-2000, including birth certificates, a marriage contract, permits and more

Documentation related to the Grau and Brunell families from Berlin, 1895-2000, including birth certificates, a marriage contract, permits and more - Birth certificate of Erwin Grau, born 14 April 1895, issued in Berlin, 17 April 1895; - Birth certificate of Lotte Brunell (daughter of Alice [Cahn] Brunell), issued in Cologne, 18 December 1906; - Marriage contract of Erwin Grau and Lotte (Brunell) Grau written in the form of a poem and signed by approximately 60 witnesses in Cologne, 05 May 1929; - Birth certificate of Denny Gad Grau (son of Erwin Grau and Lotte [Brunell] Grau), born 17 October 1938, issued in Berlin Schoeneberg, 19 October 1938; - Telegram from Alice (Cahn) Brunell in Westerbork to the Brunell family in Utrecht, 25 April 1943; - Confirmation from the Dutch Red Cross Organization, 01 November 1947, that Maria Anna Levy was sent from Westerbork to Sobibor on 20 April 1943; - Confirmation from the Dutch Red Cross Organization, 01 November 1947, that Samuel Levy was sent from Westerbork to Sobibor on 20 April 1943; - Letter written by Leni Brunell (sister-in-law of Lotte [Brunell] Grau) in Amsterdam, 23 July 2000, with a list of Brunell family members who lived in Brussels and the Netherlands and perished during the war; - Additional list of members of the Brunell, Levi, Rein and Smitofski families who lived in the Netherlands and perished during the war. Notes from Denny Gad Grau who submitted the material: Erwin Grau and Lotte (Brunell) Grau were married in 1929; Erwin Grau was a businessman and came from a well established family; he owned a textile factory; his parents were Louis (who died before the war) and Rosa Grau (who made aliya to Eretz Israel and died in 1946); during World War I Erwin was drafted into the German Army and while he was an officer he was awarded the Iron Cross medal; during Kristallnacht German officers guarded the street in Berlin where the family lived; Erwin did not want to leave Germany, but his officer friends urged him to do so and helped in his escape to the Netherlands in May 1939; a German Army truck transported them and their family to the Netherlands; most of the family made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939; Alice Brunell (Lotte [Brunell] Grau's mother) did not want to make aliya and perished in Sobibor; Lotte's brother, Kurt, remained in the Netherlands and married a woman named Leni who rescued him during the war.