Lotte redwood

Lotte Rotholz (née Jastrow ; born September 25, 1923 in Bad Bentheim , † between 1943 and 1945) was a German victim of the Holocaust .

Life

In 1925 the Jastrow family first moved to Forst in Lusatia, where Lotte's father worked as a preacher and religion teacher for the local Jewish community. In 1933 the family moved to Berlin. Rotholz attended the fourth Jewish elementary school of the Jewish community in Berlin until 1938 and then did a two-year tailoring apprenticeship. Until the ban in 1937 she was a member of the non-Zionist Association of German-Jewish Youth and, at the same time, also belonged to the Zionist-oriented workers . In December 1941 she married Siegbert Rotholz .

Civil rights activist

In spring 1941 she joined the discussion group around Heinz Joachim , which was close to the communist resistance group Herbert Baum . Members of this resistance group carried out an arson attack on the National Socialist propaganda exhibition “ The Soviet Paradise ” in Berlin's Lustgarten on May 17, 1942 .

Arrest and death

As a result, the group was exposed, Lotte and Siegbert Rotholz were arrested. On December 10, 1942, the People's Court sentenced Lotte Rotholz to eight years in prison . On October 14, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz . She did not survive the extermination camp.

Memorial stones

The Berlin memorial stone in the Lustgarten

Today two memorial stones in Berlin dedicated to the Baum group also commemorate Lotte Rotholz by name.

Memorial plaque in Berlin at the Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (entrance: Markus-Reich-Platz)
A memorial stone designed by the sculptor Jürgen Raue was erected in 1981 on behalf of the magistrate of East Berlin without any further information about the resistance action in the Lustgarten . set up

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Johannes Tuchel: Siegbert and Lotte Rotholz - members of the Baum resistance group. (see web link)
↑ ^a ^b Lotte Rotholz . Coordination Office Stolpersteine Berlin. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
^ Siegbert and Lotte Rotholz - members of the resistance group Baum Bildungsserver Berlin Brandenburg
^ Resistance group around Herbert Baum, "Memorial plaque in Berlin at the Jewish cemetery in Weißensee (entrance: Markus-Reich-Platz)"
^ Resistance group around Herbert Baum. "This memorial stone designed by the sculptor Jürgen Raue was erected in 1981 on behalf of the magistrate of Berlin (East) without any further information about the resistance action in the Lustgarten"

personal data
SURNAME	Redwood, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jastrow, Lotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German resistance fighter and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH	September 25, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	bad Bentheim
DATE OF DEATH	between 1943 and 1945

[Tuchel-1] A ^b Johannes Tuchel: Siegbert and Lotte Rotholz - members of the Baum resistance group. (see web link)

[Stolpersteine_in_Berlin-2] Lotte Rotholz . Coordination Office Stolpersteine Berlin. Retrieved October 29, 2015.

[3] Siegbert and Lotte Rotholz - members of the resistance group Baum Bildungsserver Berlin Brandenburg

[4] Resistance group around Herbert Baum, "Memorial plaque in Berlin at the Jewish cemetery in Weißensee (entrance: Markus-Reich-Platz)"

[5] Resistance group around Herbert Baum. "This memorial stone designed by the sculptor Jürgen Raue was erected in 1981 on behalf of the magistrate of Berlin (East) without any further information about the resistance action in the Lustgarten"