Franzi Groszmann

Who was Franzi Groszmann?

Franziska "Franzi" Stern Groszmann was possibly the last surviving mother of the Kindertransport. She sent her daughter, now a writer known as Lore Segal, to England following Kristallnacht. Groszmann's husband, Ignatz, a Vienna accountant before the Holocaust, died at the end of World War II following a series of strokes.

Segal, with her mother and grandmother, emigrated to New York City from the Dominican Republic in 1951 and lived together in a small apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.