http://www.inge-franken.de/ Sun, 20 May 2012 14:30:26 +0200 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://www.inge-franken.de/lib/tpl/tabular/images/favicon.ico http://www.inge-franken.de/ http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/eliaha?rev=1198145742&do=diff Extracts from Bernd Roder’s interview with Max Eliaha Sterngast in 1994. I have deliberately retained the spoken style for the most part. I learnt so many new details of the children’s home and life as a Jewish child in a hostile world from the account that I am pleased to be able to include the text in this book. [Notes in square brackets: author’s additions] fehrbelliner92 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:15:42 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/gideon?rev=1198145317&do=diff Story of Gideon Behrendt Excepts from the Book: With the Children transport to freedom / Mit dem Kindertransport in die Freiheit, Gideon Behrendt, Fischer, ISBN 3-596-15082-5 bzw. ISBN 978-3596150823, bei Amazon While I felt warmly cradled in my mother’s womb, the world “outside” was going topsy-turvy. Germany experienced the world’s worst monetary inflation of all time. A loaf of bread cost millions of Reichsmarks, salaries were paid out to workers daily, so that people could take their mone… fehrbelliner92 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:08:37 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/gittel?rev=1195641656&do=diff Text: Inge Franken One morning in January 2002, my friend Salomea rang me up. She knew that I was trying to discover the history of the children’s home in Fehrbelliner Strasse 92, and she had told Eva Nickel, who works in the Jewish Community of Berlin, about my efforts. This is how I found out that Eva Nickel's two sisters, Ruth and Gittel, had also been in the children’s home. I rang Frau Nickel at once and arranged a meeting. fehrbelliner92 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:40:56 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/howitwenton?rev=1263982934&do=diff After much preparation, a memorial plaque was unveiled on 14 March 2003 at the house where the former children’s home had been located. Gideon B., from Israel, took part in the ceremony to represent the survivors. Children from the nearby primary school recalled the murdered children; friends of mine and some of those who currently work in the house read the names of the adults who had not survived the Shoa. It was a moving event, attended by many people. I thought that it marked the end of my w… fehrbelliner92 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:22:14 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/introduction?rev=1198145551&do=diff I have known the house at 92 Fehrbelliner Strasse, in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, since 1998. When I arrived at the house one day I was greeted by some of the women working there, who told me excitedly: A few days ago, an old man came to the house, looked at everything and said that he had lived in this house as a Jewish child. That is how I discovered that the house had been a Jewish children's home. This thought haunted me and I became driven by a desire to find out what had happ… fehrbelliner92 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:12:31 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/jacob?rev=1195639814&do=diff Story of Jacob Herfeld The contact to Jacob Herfeld came about through an advertisement in the magazine “Jüdisches Berlin” (Jewish Berlin) Volume 4, No. 37/10 – 2001. The report is based on an interview on 10 September 2001 with Alexa Dvorson and Inge Franken. fehrbelliner92 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:10:14 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/kosmala?rev=1195642806&do=diff Text: Beate Kosmala The sisters Ruth and Gittel Süssmann are among the children who were taken in by the children’s home in Fehrbelliner Strasse 92 in the early 1940s. Their short lives ended in Auschwitz. When they were deported in August 1944, the girls had experienced an odyssey of living undercover in Berlin and a year’s stay in Weimar, which came to a terrible end when they were discovered by the Gestapo. fehrbelliner92 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:00:06 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/malin?rev=1198144728&do=diff The story of Ruth Malin Text: Ruth Malin, née Anders, Summer 2003 It was already dark when we entered the Jewish children’s home at Fehrbelliner Strasse 92, holding our uncle’s hands, walked up the stairs and knocked on an office door. A lady received us; she spoke to my uncle, whose hand I was holding. It all seemed so dark and gloomy. Then my uncle said goodbye and promised to visit us. He left hastily; it must have been painful for him too. It was February 1940. The war was already under wa… fehrbelliner92 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:58:48 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/sidebar?rev=1328469465&do=diff * Start * About me / Über mich * Stolpersteine * Life Stories Part 2 (New) * Life Stories Part 1 * Introduction * The end: deportation, exil, surviving * Story of Tosca K. * Her Family 1922 to 1943 * A Trip to Sachsenhausen * A Trip to Poland fehrbelliner92 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:17:45 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/start?rev=1198147228&do=diff Welcome to this collection of life stories. Start reading here. fehrbelliner92 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:40:28 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/steinitz?rev=1263983420&do=diff The Story of Regina St. Text:Regina St. née Anders. Written in summer 2003 My name is Regina St. née Anders. I and my twin sister Ruth were born on 24 October 1930 in Berlin. We have two older brothers, Benno and Theo. Our brother Benno, who lives in Israel with us, survived Auschwitz, was liberated in Bergen-Belsen and emigrated to Palestine in 1945. Before his deportation in 1943 he was at the Hachschara training camp in Schniebinchen. From there he was taken to Auschwitz with his comrades, … fehrbelliner92 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:30:20 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/sylvia?rev=1198144619&do=diff Notes written by Regina St. for her sick friend Summer 2003 My name is Schulamith Khalef, born in 1928 as Sylvia Wagenberg in Dessau. In either 1934 or 35 my mother Lia (Lea) moved to Berlin with me and my sister Carla. My father, who was divorced from my mother, emigrated to Palestine. Two years later my mother enrolled us in the Jewish children’s home/school in Caputh. Gertrud Feiertag, a pioneer in modern learning, was in charge of the home. She was my guardian until 1943. She died in the ga… fehrbelliner92 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:56:59 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/thanks?rev=1286255774&do=diff Translations Bridget Schäfer * Story of Jacob Herfeld * Story of Ruth and Gittel Süssmann * The short life of Ruth and Gittel Süssmann * Story of Max Eliaha Sterngast * Story of Ruth M. * Story of Regina St. * How it went on * More and more people’s stories are coming to light * Avraham Amitai * Epilogue: Ruth and Gitti Süssmann fehrbelliner92 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:16:14 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/theend?rev=1291307923&do=diff The mass deportations of the Jews from Berlin began on October 14th 1941. In at least 21 of the transports to the death camps were children and adults from the Childrens’ Home in Fehrbelliner Strasse 92. The oldest was Balbina Bielschowski, born on 11th March 1874, who was 68 when she was murdered in Theresienstadt. The youngest child was Frieda Steinberg, who was four years old when she was deported to Lodz and murdered. fehrbelliner92 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:38:43 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/tosca?rev=1198836721&do=diff During my research into the history of the Jewish Children's Home in the Fehrbelliner Strasse 92 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg I took up contact to Tosca K. who, together with her siblings, Aron and Sonya, had gone to this home as children in the thirties. Tosca was the only one of her family to survive the Nazis by being taken to England on one of the Kindertransporte. Later she married a boy she had met at the home and has been living in New York for now decades. However, this contact faded out ve… fehrbelliner92 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:12:01 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/toscanewcontact?rev=1198834851&do=diff written by Sophie Lange Sima Süssman, nee Fluss (*18.8.1891) and her husband Jakob (*26.8.1884) came to Berlin from Pysnica in Poland between 1922 and 1924. Why? We suspect that the living conditions were worse in Poland than in Berlin and that they wanted to find better jobs and also a better education for their children. In Poland Jews experienced pogroms and persecution long before the National Socialists came to power in Germany. However, what did the Süßmanns find in Germany? Not only the… fehrbelliner92 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:40:51 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/toscapoland?rev=1265725003&do=diff Text: Inge Franken and Sophie N. On Wednesday 7th February Karina, Sophie from the John Lennon College and I left the Hauptbahnhof-Berlin at 6.30 a.m. on our way to Pysznica, Stalowa Wola, Sokolow Malapolski, hoping to find traces of father and brother Süssmann. These places are mentioned in a few documents which Tosca has about her father and brother. We could not imagine that there were no traces at all left of their existence. fehrbelliner92 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:16:43 +0200 http://www.inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/toscasachsenhausen?rev=1198146327&do=diff Notes from the diary of Sophie Lange, Berlin, 14th December 2006 On Tuesday 12th December we set out for the former concentration camp at Sachsenhausen. We hoped to find out more about the circumstances of Aron and Jakob Süssman’s arrest on 13th September 1939. fehrbelliner92 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:25:27 +0200