Gertrud Cohn

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Stumbling block for Gertrud Cohn

Gertrud Cohn (born January 21, 1876 in Berlin as Gertrud Ohnstein; murdered on / after September 29, 1942 in Treblinka ) was a German victim of the Nazi regime.

The fate of her family was published in the form of a children's book. The book also became the basis for an exhibition, a play and a film.

Life

Gertrud Cohn was the daughter of the businessman Isidor Ohnstein and his wife Natalie. She attended the Viktoria School in Berlin-Schöneberg . On July 1, 1900, Gertrud Ohnstein married the businessman Hugo Cohn. The couple had two sons: Ludwig, born on April 27, 1901, and the younger Werner. Hugo Cohn died in 1928. The widow lived in good circumstances at Nikolsburger Platz 4.

Because of her Jewish origins, Gertrud Cohn was expelled from her apartment by the Nazis in 1940 and had to move into a “ Jewish apartment ”. In 1941, Landhausstrasse 43 “near Strauss” is proven. On August 30, 1942, she was transported to the collection point in the former Jewish retirement home at Grosse Hamburger Strasse 26 and deported from Anhalter Bahnhof to Theresienstadt on September 2 . She had to finance her accommodation in the ghetto with a home purchase contract . On September 29, 1942, Gertrud Cohn was transported to the Treblinka extermination camp and murdered there.

Her granddaughter Susi Collm, born in 1936, survived the Holocaust - separated from her parents in various hiding places. Ludwig Cohn had changed his name to "Collm". After the end of the war he was able to work as a grammar school teacher again and moved with his family into an official apartment in the Cecilien School at Nikolsburger Platz 5. Susi Collm later emigrated to the United States.

reception

Today there is a playground at Nikolsburger Platz 4. On April 29, 2012, the artist Gunter Demnig laid eleven “ stumbling blocks ” donated by students, parents and teachers from the Cecilien School opposite. With a scenic performance, the students commemorated the murder of the former residents and the expulsion of Jewish students from their school.

Birgitta Behr, one of the teachers specializing in art, wrote and illustrated the children's book Susi. The granddaughter of house number 4 and the time of the hidden Jewish stars in the form of a graphic novel that was published in 2016. The book presentation in the school combined a radio play, stage and film performance. In the following year, “Susi” was exhibited as part of the school's contribution to the denk! Mal '17 youth forum with 49 other projects in the Berlin House of Representatives.

The Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Museum exhibited from January 19 to June 16, 2019 the Oppenheim Villa the special Susi, the granddaughter of house no. 4 , which according to the story in the form of a "walk-in comics also initiated" by Birgitta Behr and designed has been. The program included a wide range of educational offers for school classes as well as teacher's handouts, worksheets and accompanying materials. The comiXconnection exhibition in the Berlin Museum of European Cultures shows the book as an example of the mediating function of comics.

See also

literature

  • Birgitta Behr, Sandra Wendeborn: Susi. The granddaughter of house number 4 and the time of the hidden Jewish stars . Verlag ArsEdition, Munich 2016. 109 pages. ISBN 978-3-8458-1525-1 .

Web links

Commons : Gertrud Cohn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ cecilien-schule.de: Susi . (accessed on December 11, 2019)
  2. ↑ cecilien-schule.de: think! Times 2017 . (accessed on December 11, 2019)
  3. ↑ villa-oppenheim-berlin.de : Special exhibition: Susi, the granddaughter of house No. 4 . (accessed on December 11, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Cohn, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohnstein, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after September 29, 1942
Place of death Treblinka extermination camp