Marianne Stern-Winter

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The tombstone of Marianne and Josef Stern

Marianne Stern-Winter (born September 16, 1919 in Grevenbroich- Hemmerden , †  1998 in Hemmerden) survived the Shoah as the only member of her family . She returned to Hemmerden in 1945.

Marianne Winter was the daughter of the tailor Karl Winter and his wife Rosalie. She was born on September 16, 1919 in Hemmerden. Together with her parents, sister Hertha and her husband Richard Schmitz, Marianne Stern was deported from Hemmerden to the Riga Ghetto on December 11, 1941 , where she stayed until it was dissolved on November 2, 1943 and had to do forced labor . For the next six months she had to do forced labor again in a labor camp of the Army Clothing Office (ABA) 701 in Mühlgraben near Riga. When the Eastern Front dissolved in the face of the advancing Red Army , it was sent on one of the many death marches that eventually brought them to Pomerania . Here it was liberated by Soviet troops on March 9, 1945 and returned to Hemmerden a little later.

In autumn 1946 she married Josef Stern (1910–1982) from Rheydt , whom she had met in the Riga ghetto. The attempt to emigrate to Paraguay failed after a four-year stay due to the local climatic conditions. She died in 1998. Her grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Hemmerden .

documentation

The WDR filmed the life of Marianne Stern-Winter in 2003. The film was shot by Gert Monheim and Stefan Röttger and is titled Mariannes Heimkehr. The Jewess, the official and the village .

literature

  • Ulrich Herlitz: The end of the Jewish community in Hemmerden . In: On the history of Hemmerden . Published by the History Association for Grevenbroich and Surroundings e. V. Grevenbroich 1999, ( Contributions to the history of the city of Grevenbroich 13, ISSN  0175-4661 ), pp. 152-184.
  • Ulrich Herlitz: Return from the Riga Ghetto. Marianne Stern-Winter remembers. In: Josef Wißkirchen (ed.): New beginning 1945 in Grevenbroich . Association of friends and sponsors of the Erasmus-Gymnasium, Grevenbroich 1995, ISBN 3-929816-02-4 , ( Erasmiana 3), pp. 63-67.

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personal data
SURNAME Star winter, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Shoa survivors
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Inhibitors
DATE OF DEATH 1998
Place of death Inhibitors