Born Lina Liebmann on 15.10.1876 in Wankheim. Father is the merchant Heinrich L., mother Caroline L., née Löwenthal, living at Kirchgasse 100 in Wankheim. She is the sister of Sofie L., née Löwenstein and Julie L., née Krämer. On 22.10/23.1940 Lina B. was deported from Randegg (house 108), Baden to the internment camp Gurs. Lina B. was deported together…
Born Carl Weil (misspelling: Karl) on 18 June 1879 in Tübingen. Father is the banker Friedrich W., mother is Sofie W., née Mayer, both of the Israelite religion and resident in Tübingen. (Registry office first and second registers). The mother Sofie and his older sister Wilhelmine “Mina” Mayer both died in the Theresienstadt ghetto. According to Lilli Zapf, he…
Born Julie Babette Dessauer on 29.5.1883 in Tübingen. She is the twin sister of Anna Therese D., née Erlanger. Father is the optician Adolf D., mother Helene “Lenchen” D., née Halle. Other siblings are Ernst Nathan D., Erich Hermann D., and the youngest sister Lucie Clara Levi. The Dessauer family lived in Uhlandstraße. On 28 May 1909 she married…
Born Kläre Käthe Levi on 9 July 1920 in Tübingen at the women’s hospital. Father is the cattle dealer Samuel Levi, mother is Jenny (Jeanette), née Hahn, both living in Rexingen, Horb (civil records). She married Werner Abel, born on 24.1.1915 in Geseke. According to his sister Anneliese A., née Auerbach, he was deported to the East, where he…
Spier, Julius Born Julius Berthold Spier on 12 December 1925 in Tübingen at the women’s hospital. His father is the teacher Gustav Spier, mother is Herta S., née Bloch, both living in Haigerloch. His sister, Ruth S., married Ben David, was able to flee to England. The father Gustav Spier was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp after the Reich…
Born Sofie Mayer in Mainz on 27 June 1852 (the memorial book of the Federal Archives incorrectly gives 26 June 1952 as the date of birth). She was married to the banker Friedrich Weil, who came from a banking family in Hechingen. From 1912, Friedrich W. is listed in the Tübingen address books as a bank director. The two…
Born Wilhelmine Weil on 24 August 1877 in Tübingen. Father is the banker Friedrich W. from Hechingen, mother is Sofie W., née Mayer, both of the Israelite religion and living in Tübingen (first and second registers of the registry office). Her call name was Mina. On 1 April 1899 she married the Jewish merchant Josef Mayer, born on 16…
Born Arthur van Gelder on 21 November 1920 in the Tübingen Women’s Hospital. His father was the merchant Max van Gelder, his mother was Auguste van Gelder. Both were resident in Haigerloch (register oft he registry office). The memorial book of the Federal Archives mentions an emigration to the Netherlands on 12.11.1938 and an imprisonment in the labour camp…
Youth guides are teenagers and young adults who accompany groups to memorial sites or establish individual aspects of National Socialism, especially connections to Nazi crimes, on site during city walks. In doing so, they not only impart knowledge. They also explain what motivates them personally to deal with Nazi crimes on site. In this way, they offer groups of…
Written by Nadine Kaczmarek Everything is not as usual. The qualification of the youth guides in the district of Tübingen was also not spared from Corona. Instead of a three-day excursion to Alsace to the memorial site of the former concentration camp Natzweiler-Struthof, it was first online. This year’s class, a group of almost 30 youths and young…
