Luiza Defranceski (geb. Salzer), 1919 — The Defranceschi Archive

The family

No family chart is drawn for this person, and that is a statement about the data rather than about them. This archive records kin against a name — the tree on a name page gathers everyone who shares it, so it may hold one person's dates beside another's wife. Rather than hand a reader a family that might not be this person's, the chart is drawn only where the relationship is recorded person by person, which today means the direct line.

What the archive knows

Petar's wife, and until today she was a maiden name in somebody else's sentence. Her own camp card: «NOM DEFRANCESKI · PRÉNOMS Luiza · Nationalité Youg. · Date de naissance 5.10.1919 · Profession ménagère · Adresse de l'employeur Neuhausen, Kelterstr. 30 · Situation de famille mariée», IRO no. 148.902 B, camp number 31163. The address is the proof. Kelterstr. 30 Neuhausen is the employer's address on Petar Defranceski's fiche too. This archive already recorded that Petar «married Luise Salzer at Neuhausen in February 1942» — and this is her, under the married name, with a date of birth of her own for the first time. (doc for the card; the identification of Luiza Defranceski with Luise Salzer is inf, on the shared address, the marriage already recorded, and the single camp file.) A French-zone identity card of 27 November 1948 carries her thumbprint and a photograph in which she holds two small children. They have cards of their own in the same file; this archive names them and gives no dates, because both were born within living memory. Her daughters are Urzula Defranceski and Renate Defranceski, born at Urach and Metzingen — both in Germany, both named in the Pfullingen household list this archive has held all along, which also gives her own birthplace: «geb. Salzer, Luise, born 5.10.19, Neuhausen — she was born in the village. Petar married into it.» The identification is not an inference after all; the archive already had it. Arolsen Archives, French-zone IRO file 148.902, read 23 September 2026.