Clara Russo

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Stumbling block for Clara Russo in Wernigerode

Clara Russo (born June 14, 1876 in Eberswalde as Clara Jaffé ; died after December 18, 1943 in Auschwitz ) was a German opera singer .

Life

She came from the Jewish Jaffé family and was born in the Prussian province of Brandenburg . In the capital of the Reich, Berlin , she became a singer at the Deutsche Oper and lived at Bahnhofstrasse 14, later at Körnerstrasse 23/25. In 1919 she married the then 49-year-old financially strong Harz cheese producer Benno Russo in Wernigerode. From then on, Clara Russo lived in the Harz Mountains and no longer appeared as an opera singer. In 1938 the Russo family was forced to sell their villa on Feldstrasse in Wernigerode to a leading National Socialist for a price that was not in line with the market. She moved into a small apartment at Lindenbergstrasse 30. The subsequent efforts to emigrate from the German Reich were unsuccessful.

Benno and Clara Russo had to move to Halberstadt in 1942 , where they lived until November 23, 1942 in the Jewish retirement home at Wilhelmstraße 15 (today: Straße der Victims of Fascism ). From Magdeburg they were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on November 25, 1942 ; Benno Russo died there on April 18, 1943. Clara Russo was murdered in Auschwitz that same year: on December 18, 1943 she was transferred from Theresienstadt to the Auschwitz extermination camp and murdered there.

Honors

Today a stumbling block reminds of Clara Russo at Villa Russo in Feldstrasse in Wernigerode . It bears the inscription:

"Here lived

CLARA RUSSO
born Jaffe
born in 1876
deported 1942
Halberstadt ghetto
1942 Theresienstadt
murdered in
Auschwitz. "

literature

  • Erna Nelki: Stories from the upheaval in German history between assimilation and asylum. Revonnah, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-927715-03-4 , p. 19.
  • Peter Lehmann, Renate Goetz, Ralf Mattern: On the trail of Jewish life in Wernigerode. Wernigerode Tourismus GmbH, 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New theater almanac: Theater history year and address book for the year 1904, Volume 15, 1904, p. 212.
  2. ^ New theater almanac for 1907, Volume 18, 1907, p. 334.
  3. ↑ a b Peter Lehmann: Miracles become reality - Villa Russo filled with life. In: Harzer Volksstimme . February 1, 2012, accessed March 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims - Klara Russo In: yadvashem.org , accessed on March 26, 2019 (address list of deported Jews from Halberstadt)
  5. ↑ memorial to the deported Jews Halberstadt In: halberstadt.de , accessed on March 26 of 2019.
  6. ^ Clare Russo | Victim database | Holocaust In: holocaust.cz , accessed on April 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 - Russo, Clara Klara . Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  8. ↑ This is probably a Jewish house
personal data
SURNAME Russo, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaffe, Clara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Eberswalde
DATE OF DEATH after December 18, 1943
Place of death Auschwitz