Alice Bendix

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Alice Bendix (born November 13, 1894 in Landsberg an der Warthe ; † 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German welfare worker.

Live and act

After her training as a kindergarten teacher, after-school care worker and welfare worker, in 1922 she took over the management of the Finkenkrug rural youth home of the Berlin Youth Home Association as well as responsibility for the (experimentally) newly established training branch for so-called children's home nurses . The training lasted a year and was intended to enable the students to work in orphanages and children's rest homes. Alice Bendix worked closely with Anna von Gierke , Martha Abicht and Isa Gruner . When the youth home association was forcibly dissolved, Alice Bendix moved to Munich.

From February 1935 she was responsible for the “ Antonienheim ” Jewish children's home in Munich, which, in addition to the regular home, looked after a crèche, a kindergarten and after-school care center, as well as around 40 kindergarten pupils. Alice Bendix was a loving, fair but also strict home manager who was very careful that the pupils and the other residents of the home did not attract negative attention in any way, especially since the home as a Jewish facility was in the public eye.

Alice Bendix had resolutely rejected all help in escaping abroad, including to her brother in Switzerland. She wanted to stay in her position as long as she wrote that there was still a Jewish child alive and suffering whom I could help . After the Antonienheim was liquidated in 1942, the director, the children and other residents of the facility were deported to the barracks in Milbertshofen and then to the assembly camp in Berg am Laim . Together with other carers, Alice Bendix accompanied the home's last children on March 13, 1943 on their journey to their death. She herself was first deported to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz in the autumn of the same year . According to a testimony, she was selected upon arrival and murdered in the gas chamber .

The Vocational School Center in Antonienstraße in Munich has been called "Vocational School Center Alice Bendix" since 2004.

Works

  • 10 years of the Finkenkrug Youth Home (Osthavelland), Berlin 1932

literature

  • Erika Paul: Between social history and place of refuge. The Finkenkrug youth home and its brave women. Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942271-84-4 .

source

  • Manfred Berger : Elisabeth Kitzinger (1881–1966) and Jewish welfare work in Munich (1904–1943). In: Landeshauptstadt München (Hrsg.): Jewish life in Munich. Munich 1995, ISBN 3-927984-38-8 , pp. 57-63.
  • Bertha-Susanne Oppenheimer: Research on Elisabeth Kitzinger (1881–1966) and her work for the Jewish youth welfare in Munich (1904–1943). Munich 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralph-Christian Amthor: Alice Bendix (1894-1943) . In: German Central Institute for Social Issues (ed.): Social work (=  resistance in social work ). Issue 8, 2013, pp. 338–339 ( online [PDF; 64 kB ; accessed on August 11, 2015]). Photo of the pedagogue on page 338.
  2. ↑ KulturGeschichtsPfad City District 12: Schwabing-Freimann (booklet) , KulturGeschichtsPfad 12 Schwabing-Freimann. City district on the green belt KulturGeschichtsPfad City district 12: Schwabing-Freimann
  3. ↑ cf. Oppenheimer 2006, pp. 67-87.
  4. ↑ cit. n. Oppenheimer 2006, p. 87.
  5. ↑ Baum 1954, p. 89.
  6. ↑ www.ris-muenchen.de (PDF; 71 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Bendix, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Head of the Jewish children's home “Antonienheim” in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp