Jeanette Schocken

Jeanette Schocken (born Pinthus; born July 9, 1883 in Halle (Saale) , † probably 1942 in Minsk ) was a German department store owner of the Jewish faith and a philanthropist .

biography

Jeanette Pinthus grew up in Halle in a wealthy merchant family. Her father Max Isidor Pinthus owned a thriving textile department store here. In 1903 Jeanette Schocken came to Bremerhaven with her husband Julius Schocken (1872–1934) , who became a respected department store owner and synagogue director. With him she had the daughters Edith (* 1907) and Hilde (* 1918) and the son Heinz (* 1910). After Julius Schocken's death in 1934, she and her daughter Edith's husband, Walter Elkeles, managed their two department stores in Bremerhaven and Geestemünde , which were legally independent from the group , until they had to sell them in 1938 to the "Aryanized" headquarters of the successor group to the Schocken department store company . Like her husband Julius Schocken, she was active in the Jewish community and in Bremerhaven's charities.

After the November pogroms in 1938 , Jeanette Schocken's children Heinz and Hilde emigrated to the USA , her son-in-law Erkeles and her grandchildren to Palestine . Jeanette Schocken stayed with her daughter Edith, who was mentally ill because of the Nazi terror , in her house in Lehe (today Bremerhaven). On November 17, 1941, they were deported to Minsk along with other Jews from Bremen and Bremerhaven , where they were allegedly murdered in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp .

Honors

• Her house in Lehe was transferred to the Navy in 1942. 1948 got to the workers' welfare and today as Villa Schocken a retirement home of the AWO .
• In memory of the Bremerhaven benefactor and in memory of the persecution of Jewish fellow citizens, Bremerhaven citizens donated the Jeanette Schocken Prize for Literature in 1991 .

literature

• Hans-Eberhard Happel, u. a .: Schocken a German story , Bremerhaven 1994.
• 10 years of Jeanette Schocken Prize Bremerhaven Citizen Prize for Literature - A Documentation , Bremerhaven 2000.
• Katharina Hoffmann: Jeanette Schocken . In: Hartmut Bickelmann (Hrsg.): Bremerhaven personalities from four centuries . A biographical lexicon. Bremerhaven 2003.
• Manfred Ernst : 'My mother was a very brave woman ...' - A biographical report about Jeanette Schocken born. Pinthus . In: Jeanette Schocken Prize - 20 years of Bremerhaven Citizens Prize for Literature , Wirtschaftsverlag NW Verlag für neue Wissenschaft, Bremerhaven 2010, ISBN 978-3-86509-925-9 .
• Manfred Ernst: Schocken, Jeannette, b. Pinthus . In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 404-407.
• Katharina Hoffmann: Schocken, Jeanette b. Pinthus . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .