Hanna Meyer-Moses

Hanna Karoline Meyer-Moses (born September 30, 1927 in Karlsruhe ) is a Jewish contemporary witness of the persecution of the Jews .

Life

Hanna Meyer-Moses was born in 1927 as the daughter of the lawyer Nathan Moses (* 1886 in Kirchen / Lörrach ; died in Marseille 1944) and his wife Betty Moses, b. Dreifuss (1889–1944), born. The family lived in Durlach until 1931 , then in Karlsruhe.

On October 22, 1940, Hanna Moses was deported to the Gurs camp at the foot of the Pyrenees with her family and about 6,500 other Jews from Baden , the Palatinate and Saarland as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign . In February 1941, Hanna Meyer-Moses and her younger sister Susanne (* 1929) were able to be accommodated in a state children's home with the help of the OSE (Œuvre de secours aux enfants) and the Quakers . In the summer of 1943 they managed to escape to Switzerland , where Hanna Meyer-Moses lives to this day. Her mother was murdered in Auschwitz , the father died in Hospital Le Dantec .

After the war, the German embassy in Bern had to reapply German citizenship to the stateless former German citizens, including Hanna Moses, whereupon she declared that she would “rather remain stateless than ever become German again”.

In 1963 Hanna Moses married her fiancé, the merchant and later chairman of the Bremgarten Jewish community, Werner Meyer. The marriage had three children: Rolf (Rolf Nathan; * 1963), Eva (Eva Elisabeth; * 1965) and Caroline (Caroline Ester; * 1968).

Hanna Meyer-Moses reports on her experiences in lectures. In 2009 she published the story of her life with the story Journey into the Past .

She refused a Federal Cross of Merit offered to her in August 1992 “in recognition of her services to the understanding between Jews and Germans” on the grounds that she could not “receive a German medal standing on a mountain of bones and ashes”.

Works

• Herrenalber Protocols 81: As much as the individual can carry. With contributions from u. a. Hanna Meyer-Moses, Evangelical Academy Baden, 1991, ISBN 978-3-89674-082-3
• Journey into the past: a survivor of the Gurs camp remembers the persecution during the Nazi dictatorship. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2009, ISBN 978-3-89735-560-6 .

literature

• Josef Werner: swastika and Jewish star. The fate of the Karlsruhe Jews in the Third Reich. Karlsruhe 1988
• Edwin Maria Landau & Samuel Schmitt: Camp in France. Survivors and their friends. Evidence of emigration, internment and deportation , von Brandt, Mannheim 1991 ISBN 3-926260-15-7 pp. 154-162: autobiography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ His mother: Karoline Moses (1851-1892), daughter of Samuel Moses (* 1800) and Wilhelmine Nelson (* 1813). Nathan Moses' guardian was initially Max Braunschweig, a brother of the presumed father Israel Braunschweig. After Max Braunschweig's death, Jakob Moses, a brother of the late mother, took his place.
2. ↑ Her parents were David Dreifuss (1855–1933; during his military service from 1876 to 1879 with the 1st Baden Leib-Grenadier-Regiment No. 109 temporarily assigned to the palace guard of Grand Duke Friedrich I in Karlsruhe) and Bertha, née Kahn (1868– 1937). They came from Altdorf in the Ortenau , where the ancestors had lived since at least 1747.
3. ↑ That corresponded to the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles , the 20th Tishri 5701
4. ↑ ekiba.de ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2013 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. : Conversation with contemporary witnesses with Hanna Meyer-Moses on the homepage of the Evangelical Church of Baden  
5. ↑ Journey into the Past , page 86
6. ↑ The core of the book, the historical account of her life story, was available as early as 1981.

Web links

• Interview with Hanna Meyer-Moses on the website of the Evangelical Church in Baden
• Hanna Meyer-Moses in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe , there with a photo