My Grandfather | Julius Leburg
Picture of Julius Leburg in his WWI German uniform.
My Grandfather, Julius Leburg, was born in May of 1876 in Strassbourg, Alsace, France, when it was part of Germany and was called Straßburg, Elsaß-Lothringen, Germany. As early as 1901 he was married and living in Berlin, Germany. His only son was born in Berlin in 1903. In 1910 he had his own business with a partner, selling furniture and antiques.
When WWI began he was already in his late 30s but he signed up to defend his country. He was killed on 2 June 1916 at the Battle of Verdun, very close to where he was born.
On 25 Jan 1942 the Nazis rounded up his widow and her sister and shipped them off to the Riga Concentration Camp in Latvia. She had refused to leave Berlin because she could not believe that the Germans would harm the widow of a War Hero.
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My Grandfather, Julius Leburg
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Picture of my Grandfather, Julius Leburg, in his German WWI uniform.
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Barbara Algaze
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Europeana 1914-1918
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