Lina Blumenfeld, the oldest child of Sally Blumenfeld and Berta, née Freudenstein, was born in Adelebsen on 9 May 1866.1
Lina moved to Göttingen and lived in 1910, at the time of her father’s retirement, at Schildweg number 19.2 According to her mother’s obituary, her parents were living with her when her mother died in 1912. Lina lived at this address until at least 1928.3 The address books list Lina’s address in Göttingen in 1937 to 1939 as Wöhlerstrasse number 6. The house was owned by the widow Rosa Meyerstein. Here she lived with her sister Johanna, who moved from Osnabrück to live with her in 1937.4
“When the owner of the house on Wöhlerstrasse […] wanted to sell her property in 1939, Lina and her sister decided to move to Hanover,”5 where they lived at 13 Wissmannstrasse in one of two houses owned by the Simon’sche Stiftung (a Jewish foundation). “These houses were the last voluntary places of residence of more than 60 victims of the Nazi era.”6 Stoplersteine for Lina and Johanna Blumenfeld were placed in front of 13 Wissmannstrasse in 2010.
Lina und Johanna were forced to move into a Judenhaus at 16a Wunstorfer Strasse.7 Shortly thereafter, the third and last large transport of older Jews from northwest Germany began. The website “Statistik des Holocaust” quotes the Gestapo’s plans for the deportation to Theresienstadt:
“The Jews to be deported from the City of Hanover are to be concentrated at the Horticultural School in Ahlem [located at 1 Wunstorfer Landstrasse] under the supervision of the Hanover State Police by 19 July 1942. The arrest and transfer of the Jews in die districts of Hanover affected by this order are to be carried out be the authorities of the district and the police. It is anticipated that the arrests will take place here on 20 July 1942.”8
Lina Blumenfeld was deported to Theresienstadt with her sister Johanna on 23 July 1942 and was murdered there on 28 February 1943.9 The Stoplerstein commemorating her in Wissmann-strasse in Hanover has an incorrect birth year. Her death certificate issued by the authorities in Göttingen below from holocaust.cz lists her cause of death as pneumonia!10
- Death certificate, Arolsen, 2 November 1956, Number 1246, and Gedenkbuch, German Federal Archives. ↩︎
- Lina Blumenfeld, blankgenealogy.com. ↩︎
- Einwohnerbuch Göttingen for 1927 to 1928. ↩︎
- Lina Blumenfeld, blankgenealogy.com. ↩︎
- Lina Blumenfeld, blankgenealogy.com. ↩︎
- Pressemitteilung 1 Juni 2010: Stolpersteine sollen in Wissmannstrasse an Opfer des Nationalsozialismus erinnern, spd-suedstadt-bult.de. ↩︎
- Lina Blumenfeld and Johanna Blumenfeld, blankgenealogy.com. ↩︎
- Gestapo plans from 10 July 1942 quoted in the description of the deportation from Bremen and Hanover to Theresienstadt on the website “Statistik des Holocaust”. ↩︎
- Yad Vashem. ↩︎
- Nationalarchiv Prag , Židovské matriky, Ohledací listy – ghetto Terezín, Band 83, in: holocaust.cz. ↩︎
Blumenfeld Family Stories 
Another cousin lost to the Holocaust. It is possible that she did die from pneumonia while at Theriesenstadt, given the living conditions there. From what I recall when we visited there and went on a tour, many of the people who died there died as a result of untreated medical conditions or malnutrition and weren’t shot and killed (though many were). Regardless, they were all murdered by the Nazis.
LikeLike
Pingback: Sally Blumenfeld and Berta Freudenstein | Blumenfeld Family Stories
Pingback: Johanna Blumenfeld (1871 – 1943) | Blumenfeld Family Stories