Fanny David

Fanny David (born December 2, 1892 in Berlin ; died at the end of October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a German welfare worker and Jewish association official who became a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Fanny David was the eldest daughter of the businessman Max David († 1929) and his wife Martha , née Brach (1871-1944). Her family soon moved to Altona , where her father ran a wine and spirits import business under difficult financial conditions and her younger sister Irma (1901–1944) was born. After finishing school, she worked practically and politically in welfare work, although no information is available about her training periods.

From 1921 David worked in the newly created welfare office in Hamburg , where she was promoted to inspector in 1927 due to her socio-political commitment. The social democrat was entrusted with the management of the newly created welfare office Hamburg-Barmbek during the Great Depression in 1930 and remained in this position until April 1933. David was promoted to chief inspector in 1932 and was part of the advisory group led by the head of the Hamburg welfare office Oskar Martini .

After the National Socialists came to power , David was immediately dismissed on April 4, 1933 under the Civil Service Act . She then got involved with the Hamburg Jewish Community , where she first headed the advice center for Jewish economic aid and then the emigration economic aid . At the same time she was deputy head of the welfare department. From autumn 1939 she had to carry out "work on the compulsory transfer of all public welfare for Jews to the Jewish religious association", since Jews were excluded from public welfare under the Nazi regime. She had to move several times within Hamburg and from April 1942 lived with her mother and divorced sister in Jewish houses .

After the dissolution of the Jewish religious association , the forced successor of the Hamburg Jewish community , David and her mother and sister were deported on June 23, 1943 from the Hanover train station to the Theresienstadt ghetto . In Theresienstadt she was deployed in work columns and there later belonged to the camp self-administration with prominent status (B). She lived there with her mother and sister in dire conditions. She kept conspiratorial lists of the deported Jews, to which she added transport and death dates. She gave these lists to a female inmate before her own deportation.

On October 28, 1944, she and her sister were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where they were probably murdered by gas shortly after arrival . Her mother had died of severe asthma two weeks earlier .

In memory of Fanny David, a street in Hamburg-Lohbrügge has been named after her since 1964 .

literature

• Werner Jochmann : Fanny David. In: SPD-Hamburg: For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945. Hamburg 2003, pp. 48-49.
• Uwe Lohalm: David, Fanny . In: Institute for the history of the German Jews (ed.): The Jewish Hamburg: a historical reference work . Edited by Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0004-0 (with folding map of Jewish sites in Hamburg ).
• ... In the black night and silent silence I have to find my way alone ...: Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt's deportation to Theresienstadt and her return to Hamburg; Pictures, impressions, reports, documents , State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-929728-67-5 . (Audio book)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg - Fanny David
2. ^ ^{A b} Werner Jochmann: Fanny David , In: SPD-Hamburg: For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945. Hamburg 2003, p. 48f.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Uwe Lohalm: David, Fanny. In: Institute for the history of the German Jews (ed.): The Jewish Hamburg. A historical reference work. Edited by Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, p. 52f.
4. ↑ Booklet (PDF; 920 kB)