Lola Fischel
Lola Fischel born Potok (born March 7, 1914 in Sosnowitz , † March 18, 2009 in Hanover ) was a dentist and survivor of the Holocaust .
Life
Lola Potok was deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp in August 1943 , which she survived with her brother. The other members of her family were murdered in the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz camps. In the Bergen-Belsen camp, she was forced to work as a dentist and to organize a dental clinic for the inmates. Immediately after her liberation in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, she met her future husband Siegmund Fischel , a Hanoverian. He was very ill from being held in Auschwitz and other camps and was unable to emigrate to Israel because of his health. They decided to live in his hometown and start a dental practice. The joint practice existed in Groß-Buchholz in Podbielskistraße until 1965. Since the mid-1970s, she and her son Marek continued the practice. In Hanover, she took on tasks in the German-Israeli Society and in the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation .
She was a speaker during the 1985 visit of US President Ronald Reagan to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Honors
- 1985: Lola-Fischel-Haus, Hanover- Bult , Haeckelstrasse, the only Jewish retirement home in Lower Saxony
- 1989: Plaque for services to the state capital Hanover
- 1997: Lower Saxony State Medal
- 2016: Lola-Fischel-Straße in Hanover- Südstadt (until September 2016: Sohnreystraße )
literature
- Susann Heenen-Wolff : In the hangman's house. Talks in Germany. Dvorah, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-927926-15-9 , pp. 301-306.
- Peter Schulze : Fischel, (1) Lola. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 180 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Schulze: Fischel, (1) ... (see literature)
- ↑ Renaming of the street to Lola-Fischel-Straße on hannover.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischel, Lola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Holocaust survivor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sosnowitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 2009 |
| Place of death | Hanover |