Renate Defranceski — 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

Living — named, and placed, and never dated. Daughter of Petar Defranceski and Luiza Defranceski (geb. Salzer), born at Metzingen in Württemberg. She was not born in Yugoslavia at all: both of Petar's daughters were born in Germany, where he had gone in April 1939 and stayed. She has a Fiche Individuelle of her own in the family's IRO file at Reutlingen, marked «enfant» across the fingerprint boxes, and she is one of the «deux enfants» the IRO letter of 15 December 1948 classified B alongside the head of the family. She is one of the two small children in the photograph on her mother's 1948 identity card. Her date of birth is held by this archive and is not printed — not in text, and not as a scan: her fiche is deliberately absent from the plates, because publishing the document publishes the date. Arolsen Archives, French-zone IRO file 148.902, read 23 September 2026, with the household list already held at /pfullingen/. ⚠ This archive is almost certainly holding her three times, and one of the three is this row. David's live tree already carried Renata Defranceski (Buck) — «Petar Vid and Luise's younger daughter», born at Metzingen — and Renata Defranceski, both imported on 15 September 2026. This row was created on 23 September from the Arolsen fiche, without checking whether the tree already had her. Same parents, same birthplace, same position in the family. Nothing has been merged. Who a living person is, is David's to say and not an inference to be drawn from a camp card — and a merge performed on a guess is a person deleted on a guess. Flagged for him.