Friedlich and Urman Family Collection

Salomon Urman was born on February 16, 1890, in Czernowitz, Bucovina. From 1909 to 1939 he lived in Berlin, where he married Clara Haberman on February 1st, 1914. Clara Haberman was born on July 13, 1891, also in Czernowitz. Together they had one daughter, Jenny Urman, born on December 3, 1915, in Berlin. Initially working as a secretary in Berlin, Jenny was released from her job in 1935. Four years later, in 1939, the Urman family fled to Paris, where they illegally lived in hiding with a French policeman from 1942 to 1944 and were possibly working with the local anti-Nazi movements. Afterward, the family was transported to Bucharest, where Jenny worked for the International Red Cross. In 1947, the Urman family moved back to Paris. Six months later, in December of 1947, Jenny immigrated to the United States to marry Aron Friedlich.

Aron Friedlich was born on October 10, 1910, in Krakow, to Mina (nee Kenner) and Mendel Friedrich and had five siblings. Mina later married a second time in New York and took the name Gurfein. Aron first lived in Berlin and later fled to France. In 1941, he fled to the United States via Cuba, where he worked in the military and was later stationed in Europe. Aron and Jenny had known each other in their youth in Berlin and met again in Paris during the war around 1940. After staying in correspondence, Jenny moved to the United States in December 1947 and married Aron in February 1948. In 1951, Jenny brought her parents to the United States as well. Salomon Urman, who initially worked as a tailor, had gotten Parkinson’s disease due to years of persecution and was unable to work. Jenny and Aron, therefore, supported Jenny’s parents financially until their deaths. Together, Jenny and Aron had a daughter, Monica Lagnado, born on November 1, 1954.