![]() The left by train for Amsterdam, Netherlands. Netty sewed some jewels inside ten year old Hans' teddy bear, without telling him, and told him never to let it go. They were not allowed to take anything valuable out of the country. In early 1940, Hans’ family secured travel visas. In September, following Germany’s invasion of Poland, France and England declared war. In 1939, Netty stopped working at the hospital. Although she was Jewish, Netty received a baptismal certificate from St. They began the extensive process of gathering the necessary paperwork. Hans’ parents, Julius and Netty, decided to leave the country. Anti-Jewish policies that stripped Austrian Jews of their rights were enacted. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria, an act that was welcomed by much of the Austrian population. One of his clients was the composer Franz Lehar. Netty later became a senior nurse at the hospital and Julius was promoted at his accounting firm, Rosenzweig and Finkler. ![]() In March 1921, Netty began working at the Jewish Community of Vienna’s hospital. Netty was a nurse and served during the First World War (1914 – 1918). ![]() Netty was born on November 14, 1899, in Lemberg, Austro-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) to a Jewish woman, Frida Freiberger. Julius, an accountant, was born to a Catholic family, but did not practice any faith. Julius was born on April 14, 1899, in Vienna, to Franz and Josefa Johanna Zohner Butzke. Hans Butzke was born on March 28, 1929, in Vienna, Austria, the only child of Julius and Bronislawa (Netty) Freiberger Butzke. The fur has rubbed off in several places, especially on the head and near the repaired opening. It wears light pink, plastic lined underpants with 6 white painted side snaps. The bear is wearing baby clothes: an offwhite short sleeve shirt with an attached light pink vest embroidered with a boy holding balloons, with 5 white plastic shank buttons on the front and 3 on the back. The limbs are attached to the torso with hard cardboard sockets and metal pins. The 4 paws have brown felt paw pads and the feet have 4 stitched, black thread claw lines. The long, cylindrical arms extend to the curved top of the legs. The bear has a plump, distended lower torso lined with cardboard. The neck and shoulders are no longer stuffed and the head is loose. The bear has a round, firm, sculpted head, a pointed snout with remnants of a light brown stitched nose and mouth, 2 domed, brown glass eyes with black pupils, and 2 round ears, with a Steiff button in the left ear. Physical Description Golden brown, faux mohair, plush bear with moveable limbs stuffed with wood shavings.
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