Greta Garbo was born in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. She was the third and youngest child of Anna Lovisa (née Karlsson, 1872–1944), a housewife who later worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson (1871–1920), a laborer. Garbo had an older brother, Sven Alfred (1898–1967), and an older sister, Alva Maria (1903–1926). Her parents met in Stockholm, where her father had been visiting from Frinnaryd. He moved to Stockholm to become independent and worked in various odd jobs—street cleaner, grocer, factory worker and butcher's assistant. He married Anna, who had recently moved from Högsby. The Gustafssons were impoverished and lived in a
Greta Loebl Greta Loebl Greta Loebl Schreyer (July 28, 1917 – October 3, 2005), born Greta Loebl, was an Austrian-American, Jewish jewelry designer and painter. She survived the Holocaust and died in New York City. Greta Loebl was born in Vienna, Austria and followed in her father's footsteps at 18 to become a master goldsmith. Due to the Nazi occupation of Austria, she and her future husband Oscar Schreyer left the country in September 1938. While in Paris, France, they met a wealthy American who sponsored their affidavit for immigration to the U.S. They stayed in Paris until their visa applications to