Karla Raveh

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Karla Raveh (nee Frenkel ; * May 15, 1927 in Lemgo ; † May 27, 2017 there ) was a survivor of the Holocaust and an author .

Life

Frenkel House in Lemgo (2012)

Karla Raveh was born in 1927 as the daughter of the long-established Lemgo Jewish family Frenkel in the house at Echternstrasse 70 in Lemgo. She and her family were taken to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 . In 1944 the family was transported to Auschwitz . She and her grandmother Helene Rosenberg were the only survivors in their family after the Holocaust. All the other ten family members died in the Warsaw ghetto , in the Theresienstadt ghetto or in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

After her liberation, she returned to Lemgo in 1945; Adolf Sternheim became her guardian. In Lemgo, she met her future husband, Szmuel Raveh, who had also survived as the only one in a large family, and emigrated with him to Israel in 1949 .

At the suggestion of the Lemgoer Hanne Pohlmann (1939–2011), Karla Raveh wrote down her memoirs. Between 1949 and 1985 she did not speak German and did not travel to Germany. That was her way of coming to terms with the past. In her letters, Pohlmann argues that the memories for the period from 1933 to 1945 fill important gaps in the historical work of the city and at the school ( Engelbert-Kaempfer-Gymnasium ) where she teaches.

Karla Raveh dictated the text to her husband Szmuel Raveh, who typed it with an old typewriter. She wrote to Pohlmann: “As I already wrote, my memories are definitely incomplete, which is understandable, but I wrote 'fresh off the tongue', I had to do it quickly, this was not an easy time for us, it was a drag on the nerves. “The manuscript survival: The suffering of the Jewish Frenkel family from Lemgo by Karla Raveh is preserved in the Lemgo city archive. Pohlmann was an editor of Karla Raveh's memoirs as the book Survival: The Sorrowful Path of the Jewish Frenkel Family from Lemgo. In 2009, Hanne Pohlmann and her husband Klaus Pohlmann were awarded the Sternheim needle for their work on the Nazi past.

Since 1986 Raveh has lived regularly for a few months in the Frenkel house on Echternstrasse. She regularly attended the presentation of the Adolf Sternheim badge of honor and the Adolf Sternheim award .

In 2015, Raveh gave one of her last interviews.

Raveh died in May 2017 while visiting her hometown Lemgo at the age of 90.

Appreciations

Stumbling blocks in front of the Frenkel house

In 1988 Raveh became an honorary citizen of the city of Lemgo.

In 1988, a documentation and meeting place with a permanent exhibition on the history of the Jews in Lemgo was set up in her parents' house on Echternstrasse, today's Frenkel-Haus. In the back building there are living and working rooms for scholarship holders of an art foundation of the city of Lemgo and the Staff Foundation. In front of the house there are 14 stumbling blocks for murdered Jews, especially for members of the Frenkel family.

The comprehensive school in the Lippe district in Lemgo, founded in 1996, has been called the Karla Raveh Comprehensive School since 1997 . In 2003 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon .

In 2018, a memorial stone was erected in front of the old Jewish cemetery at Ostertorwall in Lemgo in memory of Karla Raveh .

Works

  • Survival: The ordeal of the Jewish Frenkel family from Lemgo. Along with notes by Helene Rosenberg (= Forum Lemgo. Writings on city history. Issue 1). 3rd, verb. and additional edition. On behalf of the Old Hanseatic City of Lemgo ed. from the Archive and Museum Office, Lemgo 1987, ISBN 3-9801508-1-X , DNB 910612935 .
  • Small-town Jewish life in Germany and Poland. A memory report about Lemgo and Demblin (Ill.). In: Jews in Lemgo and Lippe (= Forum Lemgo. Writings on city history. Issue 3). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1988, ISBN 3-927085-08-1 , pp. 154–158.
  • Do you remember where our meeting point is ...? In: Heinrich Graefenstein: Lemgo. Translated into English by Gerald Onn. Gieseking, Bielefeld 1990, ISBN 3-7694-0373-8 , p. 83 (German, English).

literature

  • Jürgen Scheffler (ed.): The Frenkel house in Lemgo. Residence, place of remembrance, memorial (= writings of the Lemgo Municipal Museum. Volume 14). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-7395-1014-9 .

Movie

  • Hans-Peter Lübke, Lilach Naishtat-Bornstein: Between home and home. Film, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Till Brand: Karla Raveh is dead. In: lz.de. Lippische Landes-Zeitung, May 28, 2017, accessed on March 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ (te): Hanne Pohlmann died at the age of 72. A bridge builder is dead. In: lz.de. Lippische Landes-Zeitung, September 3, 2011, accessed on May 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Scheffler: Trailblazer of the Holocaust Remembrance in Lippe. In: Anna Gomoluch (Red.): Blurred traces - Remembrance and commemoration of National Socialist injustice in Westphalia - a biographical search. Published by Landesverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-927204-74-4 , pp. 46–57, here: p. 52 f.
  4. ↑ Karla Raveh to Hanne Pohlmann. Quotation from Jürgen Scheffler: Trailblazer for Holocaust Remembrance in Lippe. In: Blurred Traces - Remembrance and Commemoration of National Socialist injustice in Westphalia - a biographical search. Anna Gomoluch (editor). Published by Landesverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-927204-74-4 , pp. 46–57, here: pp. 53 f.
  5. ^ Sternheim needle for the couple Hanne and Klaus Pohlmann / Voices against forgetting. In: Lippe News. August 25, 2009 ( hierbilied.de [accessed May 27, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Louis Pawellek - contemporary witness interview with Karla Raveh. In: YouTube. Louis Pawellek, accessed July 7, 2020 .
  7. ^ The Frenkel House: Documentation, meeting and memorial site in Lemgo. In: lemgo.net, accessed on May 27, 2017.
  8. ↑ Karla Raveh and the Frenkelhaus ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). In: see-lemgo.de. October 21, 2011, accessed May 27, 2017.
  9. ↑ Klemens Remfort: namesake. In: karla-raveh-habenschule.de. Retrieved May 27, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Karla Raveh / Hand handed for understanding. In: Lippische Wochenschau. October 16, 2003 ( hiergeblieben.de [accessed June 4, 2012]).
  11. ↑ Nicole Ellerbrake: Memorial stone for Karla Raveh is inaugurated. In: lz.de. Lippische Landeszeitung, November 12, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2018 (beginning of article freely accessible).
  12. ↑ The life of Karla Raveh is now available as a film / impressive screening in the adult education center. In: Lippische Landes-Zeitung . September 9, 2011 ( online. In: hiergeblieben.de, accessed on June 4, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Raveh, Karla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frenkel, Karla; Frenkel-Raveh, Karla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German survivor of National Socialism and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2017
Place of death Lemgo