Herta Mansbacher
Herta Mansbacher (born January 7, 1885 in Darmstadt , Germany ; † 1942 ) was a German-Jewish teacher. She became the head of a Jewish school in Worms after the Nazi regime ordered the exclusion of Jewish teachers and students from German schools. She was committed to the persecuted Jewish community until her deportation and murder in 1942.
Life
Herta Mansbacher was born in Darmstadt as the daughter of Jacob Mansbacher and his wife Lina. The parents were wealthy Jewish citizens in Darmstadt. Herta, who was born with a backbone damage, went to the Viktoriaschule (Darmstadt) and attended the teacher training college with graduation in 1907. Then she worked as a teacher at the Westendschule, an elementary school in Worms.
As a result of the so-called seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933, Mansbacher was dismissed from public school service, but from 1935 onwards he became involved in the Jewish school in Worms, which was founded in the same year. There she taught students between the ages of 14 and 15. In 1936 she became its acting director.
During the pogroms in November 1938 , she bravely rescued irreplaceable cult objects belonging to the 900-year-old Jewish community from the burning synagogue in Worms .
After the Jewish school was forced to close by the National Socialists in 1940/41, she postponed her own emigration plans in favor of her students. Until she was deported, she kept the “list of emigrants”. In her “Emigrant Book” she recorded the fate of the deportees and exiles in minute detail.
On March 19, 1942, she and 75 other Jews from Worms were deported to Piaski , where they are lost. It is likely that she was later murdered either in the Belzec extermination camp or in the Majdanek concentration camp .
Honors
In her honor there is a Herta-Mansbacher-Strasse in Darmstadt and a Herta-Mansbacher-Anlage in Worms. In 1999, a library in the Viktoriaschule in Darmstadt was named after Herta Mansbacher.
literature
- Henry R. Hüttenbach: Herta Mansbacher. Portrait of a Jewish teacher, heroine and martyr (1885–1942) . Worms 1981
Web links
- City of Worms: Herta Mansbacher (1885-1942)
- Long battle for the past , taz on November 9, 2018, accessed on July 8, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Schlosser: Persecution of Jews after November 9, 1938: Long struggle for the past . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 9, 2018, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed November 21, 2018]).
- ↑ Volker Gallé: That was the 20th century in Worms . 1st edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, p. 42 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mansbacher, Herta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1942 |