Ellie von Bleichröder

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Ellie Marie Friederike Julie von Bleichröder (born September 17, 1894 in Drehsa ; † 1989 ) was the daughter of James and Harriet von Bleichröder. On December 9, 1916, she married the businessman Rudolph Alfred Herrschel. He was the owner of the raw tobacco wholesaler Rudolph A. Herrschel . The two had a child together.

Although her grandfather, the banker Gerson von Bleichröder , had already converted from Judaism to Christianity and she had high-ranking relationships, she was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on July 27, 1942 . At that time she was divorced from Rudolph Alfred Herrschel. She had a child from the marriage. Bleichröder was liberated from the concentration camp at the end of the Second World War .

As a prominent inmate of the concentration camp, she can be seen in scenes 22, 23 and 33 of the propaganda film Theresienstadt . In scene 33, Prof. Utitz's lecture , she is sitting in the second row and can be clearly seen as the only young woman.

After the Second World War she moved to Munich, where she was a limited partner of the Munich bank Neuvians, Reuschel & Co in the 1950s .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Koerner, CA Starke: German Gender Book, Volume 33 1920, p. 207 (accessed on March 13, 2019).
  2. Guide to the Papers of the Gerson by Bleichroeder Family , Center for Jewish History
  3. ^ Ellie von Bleichroeder , Theresienstadt-Lexikon
  4. a b Stolperstein for her sister, Harriet von Campe, geb. v. Bleichröder, Kurfürstendamm 75 , Berlin.de
  5. An aspiring private bank . Time. December 8, 1955. Retrieved March 13, 2019.