Else Rosenfeld

Else Rosenfeld (also: Else Rachel Behrend-Rosenfeld and Rahel Behrend and Elisabeth Behrend Rosenfeld , born as Elsbeth Rahel Charlotte Behrend on May 1, 1891 in Berlin ; died March 2, 1970 in Birmingham ; pseudonym: Rahel Behrend ) was a German social worker and Writer .

Life

Memorial plaque for Else Rosenfeld in Munich

Else Rosenfeld's father was a doctor. She attended the Henriette-Luise-Gymnasium and trained as a kindergarten teacher. She then studied history, philosophy and education and received her doctorate in Jena in 1918. She became a member of the SPD. From 1928 to 1933 she was a welfare worker in a Berlin women's prison . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, she was dismissed for racist reasons. From 1938 to 1942 she was a social worker in the Jewish community in Munich.

In contrast to her husband, the lawyer and until 1933 Social Democratic member of the Prussian state parliament Siegfried Rosenfeld , she was no longer able to emigrate. From 1942 she lived in hiding as a Jew; from May 1943 to April 1944 with the family of the journalist and later co-founder of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Edmund Goldschagg , in Freiburg im Breisgau and fled to Switzerland in April 1944. Later she went to her husband in England.

In 1946 she lectured and taught in German prisoner-of-war camps in England. In 1952 she returned to Germany, where she worked as a welfare worker in Bavarian prisons, prison and release camps. During this time she lived in Icking .

She returned to England at the age of 70.

Works

Ostracized and persecuted. Experiences of a Jewish woman in Nazi Germany 1933-1944 , Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1945 (later editions also under the title I was not alone )
with Gertrud Luckner (Ed.): Signs of life from Piaski . Letters from the Lublin District from 1940-1943 . Munich: Biederstein, 1967
Else Behrend-Rosenfeld and Siegfried Rosenfeld: Life in two worlds. Diaries of a Jewish couple in Germany and in exile . Edited and commented by Erich Kasberger and Marita Krauss , Volk-Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-937200-98-9

Appreciations

In Munich, Else Rosenfeld is commemorated by a plaque on Clemens-August-Strasse, where she was economic manager of the Berg am Laim collection camp set up by the National Socialists from 1941 to 1942 . Else-Rosenfeld-Straße in the same district is named after her. There is also an Else-Rosenfeld-Weg in her temporary home in Icking .

literature

Helga Pfoertner: Living with history. Vol. 1, Literareron, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89675-859-4 , pp. 1–9 ( PDF; 1.1 MB ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).
Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography . Foreword by Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962.
Rosenfeld, Else. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 452-453.

Web links

Literature by and about Else Rosenfeld in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
↑ Günther Saltin: Alfred Delp: Use for persecuted Jews , in ders. (Ed.), Reiner Albert, Roland Hartung (collaborators.): Alfred Delp Yearbook , ed. on behalf of the Alfred Delp Society Mannheim eV, Berlin: Lit-Verlag, pp. 78–93; here v. a. Pp. 85, 86 and others; Preview over google books
↑ Birth register StA Berlin VI No. 959/1891 .
^ Hans Dollinger : Edmund Goldschagg 1886–1971. The life of the journalist, social democrat and co-founder of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1986, p. 166.
↑ Hans Dollinger: Edmund Goldschagg 1886–1971, pp. 165–175; Else Behrend-Rosenfeld: I wasn't alone. Life of a Jew in Germany 1933–1944 . Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32902-0 , pp. 234-251 (first edition under the title: Rahel Behrend: Ostracized and persecuted. Experiences of a Jewish woman in Nazi Germany 1933-1944 . Zurich 1945).

personal data
SURNAME	Rosenfeld, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Behrend-Rosenfeld, Else Rachel; Behrend, Rachel; Behrend-Rosenfeld, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German social worker and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	March 2nd 1970
Place of death	Birmingham

[1] Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library

[2] Günther Saltin: Alfred Delp: Use for persecuted Jews , in ders. (Ed.), Reiner Albert, Roland Hartung (collaborators.): Alfred Delp Yearbook , ed. on behalf of the Alfred Delp Society Mannheim eV, Berlin: Lit-Verlag, pp. 78–93; here v. a. Pp. 85, 86 and others; Preview over google books

[3] Birth register StA Berlin VI No. 959/1891 .

[4] Hans Dollinger : Edmund Goldschagg 1886–1971. The life of the journalist, social democrat and co-founder of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1986, p. 166.

[5] Hans Dollinger: Edmund Goldschagg 1886–1971, pp. 165–175; Else Behrend-Rosenfeld: I wasn't alone. Life of a Jew in Germany 1933–1944 . Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32902-0 , pp. 234-251 (first edition under the title: Rahel Behrend: Ostracized and persecuted. Experiences of a Jewish woman in Nazi Germany 1933-1944 . Zurich 1945).