Helene Aronheim

Stumbling block for Helene Aronheim. Relocated in May 2013 in front of her last residence Inselwall 4.

Michaele Helene Aronheim , b. Oppenheimer, also Michele (born April 20, 1858 in Braunschweig ; died at the end of March 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German benefactor of Jewish faith who was murdered by the National Socialists in a concentration camp.

Life

Further stumbling blocks for Helene Aronheim's son Walter (1886–1950) and his 2nd wife Lily (1895–1971), b. Frey, who managed to escape to Central America.

Helene Aronheim was one of the five daughters of the banker Albert Oppenheimer (1814–1897) and his wife Rosalie, b. Levin (1824-1911). She married the lawyer and entrepreneur Max Aronheim , son of the lawyer and politician Adolf Aronheim and thus joined one of the oldest families of lawyers in Germany. She had four children with Max Aronheim:

Hedwig (1878–1945), married. Bright. Hedwig was a convert and with the Christian Karl Helle, owner of the company “v. Dollfs and Helle “married. Shortly before her deportation to a concentration camp she committed suicide on February 19, 1945 suicide in her apartment Rosental  10. The second child was Adolf (1881-1943). Like his sister Hedwig, he was a convert. As an engineer and soldier, he took part in the First World War. In 1915 he was seriously wounded on the Eastern Front . He was the holder of the Iron Cross II. Class , the Braunschweig War Merit Cross and the Cross of Honor for Frontline Fighters . He was with the Christian Ida, geb. Miehe, married. In 1938 he was briefly imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp . Like his mother, Adolf Aronheim lived at Inselwall  4. Shortly before his deportation, he poisoned himself on May 4, 1943 and was buried in the main Protestant cemetery in Braunschweig . The third child was Walter (1886–1950). After graduating from Martino-Katharineum he studied his father and his grandfather before him Jura . He worked as a lawyer and notary , lived in Berlin after 1933 , but then fled with his wife Lily (1895–1971), b. Frey went to Central America and died in Guatemala in 1950 . The youngest child was named Gertrud , married. Lotz (1893).

After Rosalie Aronheim's husband had died in 1905, she was very involved in the National Women's Service during the First World War , for which she was awarded the War Merit Cross for Women of the Duchy of Braunschweig .

Until she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on March 16, 1943, she lived in her house, Inselwall 4. The building was later destroyed by bombs during the war. In May 2013, a stumbling block was laid for Helene, Walter, Lily and Adolf Aronheim in front of their last residence at Inselwall 4 , and not far from there in front of Rosental  10 for Hedwig Aronheim.

literature

• Reinhard Bein : You lived in Braunschweig. Biographical notes on the Jews buried in Braunschweig (1797 to 1983). In: Messages from the Braunschweig City Archives . No. 1, Döring Druck, Braunschweig 2009, ISBN 978-3-925268-30-4 .
• Bert Bilzer , Richard Moderhack (eds.): BRUNSVICENSIA JUDAICA. Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of the city of Braunschweig 1933–1945. In: Braunschweiger workpieces. Volume 35, Braunschweig 1966.
• Hans-Jürgen Derda: Aronheim, Michele Helene. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 32 .

Web links

• Page about Helene Aronheim at yadvashem.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hans-Jürgen Derda: Aronheim. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries. P. 32.
2. ^ ^{A b} Reinhard Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. P. 373.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Reinhard Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. P. 374.
4. ↑ List of losses from August 28, 1915. on java.genealogy.net
5. ↑ Bert Bilzer , Richard Moderhack (ed.): BRUNSVICENSIA JUDAICA. Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of the city of Braunschweig 1933–1945. In: Braunschweiger workpieces. Volume 35, Braunschweig 1966, p. 154.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Reinhard Bein: Eternal House - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. P. 206.
7. ↑ Reinhard Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. P. 431.
8. ↑ Reinhard Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. P. 206.
9. ↑ Information from the Braunschweig City Council about the relocation of further stumbling blocks in March 2013 ( memento of the original from December 11, 2015 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. at ratsinfo.braunschweig.de