Charlotte Stein-Pick
Charlotte Stein-Pick (born Charlotte Baron ; born October 22, 1899 in Munich , † February 2, 1991 in Oakland , California ) was a German emigrant of Jewish origin. Today historians use their memoirs in many cases as a basis for research, and extracts from them are often cited in their own German and English-language publications .
Life
She was the daughter of the Munich dentist and medical adviser Fritz Baron and since 1921 the wife of the Sulzbach-Rosenberg dentist Herbert Stein (1895–1950), who ran his practice with his father-in-law at Sendlinger-Tor-Platz 6a. Even in her childhood she had to experience anti-Semitic clashes between playmates and schoolmates, which is why she was probably more sensitive than her husband to the coming danger.
From 1932 until the violent dissolution, she was chairwoman of the household school in Wolfratshausen founded by the Jewish Women's Association in Munich . As part of the November pogroms in 1938 , her husband's dental practice was closed and he was taken to the Dachau concentration camp . However, Stein-Pick achieved his release from the National Socialists .
After the couple had been expropriated in December 1938 - Stein was the last practicing Jewish dentist in Munich - they both managed, with great difficulty, to emigrate to the USA in 1939 , which Stein-Pick had already started to organize before the pogrom night. In her luggage she had two valuable Kiddush cups from Sulzbach from 1764/65, which have recently become part of an exhibition there.
In the United States, the couple began a fresh start in Seattle ( Washington state ). Her husband Herbert studied dentistry a second time and opened a new practice. Only after his untimely death (1950) did Stein-Pick return to Germany alone in 1951. Most recently she lived in Oakland (California).
In 1964, 25 years after her emigration, Stein-Pick wrote down her life story with the help of her diary entries. These memoirs remained unpublished for decades until the Munich journalist Christiane Schlötzer-Scotland met the now 90-year-old Stein-Pick in California. Her confided in Stein-Pick the recorded memories as well as photos and other documents for publication under the title My lost home . The documents were shown in an exhibition in Munich in 2008/2009.
plant
- Charlotte Pick: The lost home . Manuscript excerpt, in: Andreas Lixl-Purcell (Ed.): Recollections of German-Jewish Women 1900–1990 . Leipzig: Reclam, 1992, ISBN 3-379-01423-0 , pp. 387-401
- My lost home , Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 1992, ISBN 3-87052-851-6
literature
- Short biography in: Max Kreutzberger: Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany , New York 1970, page 467 digitized
- Gudrun Maierhof: Assertiveness in chaos. Women in Jewish Self-Help , 2002, page 124 digitized
Individual references, footnotes
- ↑ Literature overview on Google books
- ↑ a b Biography ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 91 kB)
- ↑ Andreas Heusler, Tobias Weger : "Kristallnacht". Violence against the Munich Jews in November 1938 . Buchendorfer, 1998, ISBN 978-3-927984-86-8 . , Page 40
- ^ Rosmarie Zeller: Morgen-Glantz 17/2007: Journal of the Christian Knorr von Rosenroth Society . Peter Lang, 2007, ISBN 978-3-03911-457-3 , pp. 266–.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stein-Pick, Charlotte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baron, Charlotte (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German emigrant of Jewish origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1991 |
| Place of death | Oakland , California |