Toni Langsomer née Balsam

Toni Klug Langsomer nee Balsam was born in Berlin in Berlin in 1894. Her mother was Fanny Balsam. Toni had three sisters. Rosa Schultz Neber nee Balsam, Johanna Koschel nee Balsam and Selma Blum nee Balsam. Johanna escaped from the Nazi persecution to the USA, as did mother Fanny and sister Rosa. Selma escaped to Palestine.
Toni had a daughter Margot Klug de Stern nee Klug with first husband Heinrich Klug. Margot escaped to Ecuador, and soon after made her life in Santiago de Chile. Toni later remarried to Joel Langzomer who died in Berlin of natural causes. Toni had a daughter Jeannette from her marriage to Joel. Jeannette was born in in 1930 in Berlin.
Toni tried desperately to escape Berlin with Jeannette from a certain fate of death by the Nazis. Toni’s nephew in the USA Jay Schultz wrote to the American visa office to plead for a visa for Toni and Jeannette, but to no avail. Toni wrote to her ex-husband Heinrich Klug who had escaped to Shanghai for money to pay for her passage to Shanghai. Klug had not enough money and he wrote to Rosa in the USA saying that collecting money for the passage of Toni and Jeannette was now up to Rosa and her sisters. All of their efforts failed and Toni and Jeannette were trapped in Berlin. They were betrayed, persecuted and shipped across the continent of Europe to join the fate of millions of fellow Jewish persons. Toni and Jeannette were murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.