Eva Mosbacher

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Eva Mosbacher (born October 22, 1926 in Nuremberg , † November 10, 1963 in London ) was a German nurse who took British citizenship in 1947 . As a twelve-year-old Jewish girl she came to England with the Kindertransport and survived the Holocaust there as a foster child .

Life

Eva Mosbacher came as a twelve-year-old Jewish child in May 1939 with the Kindertransport from Nuremberg to England and was accepted by two English foster mothers near Cambridge .

Her parents, Hedwig and Otto Mosbacher, moved from Nuremberg to Meiningen at the beginning of November 1939 . Their desperate efforts to leave Germany failed. Since August 1938 they have been on the US waiting list for visa applicants . They had to cancel paid berths for November 1940 and October 1941 due to a lack of visas for the USA. Eva Mosbacher was able to keep correspondence with her parents for three years and hoped to be able to live with them again soon. Hedwig and Otto Mosbacher's last letter to their daughter was dated May 3, 1942. On May 10, 1942, exactly three years after Eva's Kindertransport, her parents were deported from Weimar to the Bełżyce ghetto near Lublin along with 511 other Thuringian Jews . Both were victims of the Nazi mass murder . Remember that in Meiningen Stolpersteine .

Eva Mosbacher became a citizen of England in June 1947 . She trained as a nurse at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and North Cambridgeshire Hospital in Wisbech and then lived at Wimbledon . At 37, her depression took over and she ended her life on November 10, 1963 in a London hotel.

The Meiningen judge and author Christoph Gann documents the fate of Eva Mosbacher and her family in the traveling exhibition "When you arrive here ... the fate of a Jewish family between child transport and failed emigration" sponsored by the Federal Family Ministry . The exhibition represents the three years from Eva's arrival in England to the deportation of her parents from the experience of the girl. It was shown in the memorial of the former Synagogue in Urspringen until July 7, 2013. On the 50th anniversary of Eva Mosbacher's death, the exhibition was opened in October / November 2013 in the The hall of honor of the Nuremberg town hall was shown on January 15, 2014 in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, and in spring 2017 it can be seen at the Erfurt memorial site, Topf & Sons .

literature

  • Christoph Gann: “12 years old, Jew, deregistered to England on May 10th, 399.” The fate of Eva Mosbacher and her parents. State Center for Civic Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-943588-17-0 .
  • Christoph Gann, Dietrich Ziebart: "When you get here ..." Eva Mosbacher - a Jewish girl and the Kindertransport to England. Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Leipzig 2020, ISBN 978-3-95565-390-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martin Harth: Exemplary case of a Jewish girl , Lohrer Echo June 14, 2013, documented as a pdf at the Alemannia Judaica June 17, 2013
  2. ↑ Meiningens Stiefkinder , website of the Meiningen museums ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.meiningermuseen.de
  3. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​in Meiningen, Weltkulturwoche.de ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weltkulturwoche.net
  4. ↑ "Was known in Meiningen from childhood" Meininger Tageblatt, September 24, 2012
  5. ^ Exhibition Jews in Meiningen: "If you arrive here ..." ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.judeninmeiningen.de
  6. ↑ Sad fate of a Jewish family , Mainpost, June 17, 2013
  7. ↑ Bernd Koschland: Exhibition in Meiningen and Nuremberg , The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) PDF ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 9 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ajr.org.uk
  8. ^ Hanno Müller: Exhibition about the fate of the Mosbacher family in the Topf & Sons Memorial. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , May 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Mosbacher, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British nurse and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1963
Place of death London , UK