Bertha Rabausch

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Bertha Rosina Rabausch (born October 19, 1874 in Ulm , † August 23, 1940 in Grafeneck ) is a German victim of Nazi racial hygiene . She was murdered in the Grafeneck killing center in the course of the T4 euthanasia murders .

Life

Bertha Rabausch was the younger daughter of the master craftsman Johannes Rabausch and his wife Marie geb. Sautter . She grew up in Ulm and learned the trade of a milliner . She remained single all her life. After her older sister Johanna married a wealthy private citizen, she lived with her mother in the sister's household in Ulm's old town.

In 1929, at the age of 54, Bertha Rabausch was admitted to the state welfare institution “ Oberer Riedhof ”, a dormitory for mentally and physically handicapped people far outside the city of Ulm. The reasons for this were probably that she could no longer work and could no longer take care of herself. When she was admitted to the dormitory, it was noted in her file that she had a "mental illness". From 1929 to 1940 Bertha Rabausch lived in the Upper Riedhof for a total of about eleven years.

On August 23, 1940 Bertha Rabausch was picked up as part of "Operation T4" with 39 other residents of the Upper Riedhofs and a gray bus of Gekrat in the extermination center Grafeneck in Gomadingen in Baden-Württemberg Reutlingen district brought. There she was murdered in the gas chamber on the same day .

Stumbling block for Bertha Rabausch

Commemoration

On September 14, 2015, the artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in memory of Bertha Rabausch at her former place of residence at Küfergasse 1 in Ulm . This was made possible by the commitment of the civic initiative “Stolpersteine ​​für Ulm”, which had researched the biography of the Nazi victim in advance.

Bertha Rabausch's name is also recorded in the 2015 edition of the Book of the Dead of the City of Ulm and in the memorial and name book at the Grafeneck Memorial .

Her memory and that of the other victims of the murders in Grafeneck will also be preserved through film and video reports about the stories of suffering in the killing center and about the laying of the stumbling blocks.

See also

literature

  • Roland Müller among others: Murder of the sick under National Socialism - Grafeneck and the "euthanasia" in Southwest Germany . Archive of the City of Stuttgart, Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-89850-971-0 .
  • Walter Wuttke: Oh, these people. Life in the Ulm institution Oberer Riedhof under National Socialism ., Denkhaus, Blaubeuren 2005, ISBN 978-3-93099-828-9 .
  • Thomas Stöckle: Grafeneck 1940. The euthanasia crimes in southwest Germany. 3rd edition, Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-87407-507-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Ulm (ed.): The dead of the Second World War 1939–1945 . Ulm 2015, p. 83 ( online [PDF]).
  2. ^ Biography of Bertha Rabausch, compiled by Mark Trisch , on stolpersteine-fuer-ulm.de, accessed on January 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ Rudi Kübler: Mayor Gönner warns to stand up for tolerance and democracy , Südwest Presse , September 15, 2015, accessed on January 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rabausch, Bertha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabausch, Bertha Rosina (full name); Rabausch, Berta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German victim of National Socialist racial hygiene as part of "Action T4"
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1940
Place of death Grafeneck