Marie-Anna Jonas
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Marie-Anna Jonas (born January 12, 1893 in Fischhausen ; † October 12, 1944 in Auschwitz ) was a German doctor .
biography
East Prussia
Marie Jonas was born Maria-Anna Levinsohn on January 12, 1893 in Fischhausen, East Prussia . She was the third of four children in the Jewish Levinsohn family. Benno Levinsohn, Marie Jonas father, was a pharmacist . From 1895 the Levinsohn family lived in Königsberg . Marie Jonas attended the secondary school for girls there with an attached teacher seminar . In 1911 she passed the teacher examination. From 1912 to 1914 Marie Jonas lived in England and France for further training. Before that, when Marie Jonas was 15, her parents died.
During the First World War she worked together with her older sister in Königsberg as a Red Cross sister . In 1934 she was awarded the World War Cross of Honor for this activity . In 1917 Marie Jonas began to prepare for the Abitur examination. At the age of 26, in 1919, she passed it.
Following Marie Jonas attended the University of Königsberg a medical degree on. In 1922, she was with a thesis on complications in suppurative otitis media doctorate . Her license to practice medicine followed in 1923 .
Hamburg
In 1923, when she was admitted to practice as a doctor, she married Alberto Jonas, who also had a doctorate in classical philology . He was a senior teacher at the Hamburg Talmud Tora School . Alberto Jonas was four years older than his wife.
In 1924, Marie Jonas gave birth to their daughter Esther. In the year his child was born, Alberto Jonas became director of the Israelitische Töchterschule in Hamburg. Marie Jonas worked on this as a school doctor until 1932 .
After 1932 she did volunteer work; first at the University Hospital Eppendorf , then at the Israelite Hospital . From 1938 Marie Jonas worked as a nurse . She also taught biology and health studies at the Israelite Daughter School .
Together with her husband, Marie Jonas belonged to the Henry Jones Lodge , an influential Jewish association in Hamburg.
Until 1925, the Jonas family lived at Grindelallee 12. After that they lived in the Hamburg district of Eppendorf , at Woldsenweg 5. In 1942 the family had to leave their apartment. From then on she lived in a so-called Jewish house at Laufgraben 39.
Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
In July 1942, Marie Jonas was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and daughter . Alberto Jonas died there of meningitis a few weeks after his arrival .
Marie Jonas worked as a doctor in the ghetto. Her daughter Esther married in Theresienstadt. Together with her husband she got to Auschwitz. She survived the concentration camp. Marie Jonas was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz in 1944 and murdered there on October 12th.
Commemoration
At her place of residence in Eppendorf, in Woldsenweg, a stumbling stone reminds of Marie Jonas. In 2009 a public square in Hamburg was named after her. The Marie-Jonas-Platz is the new mid-Eppendorf . Since 1998 the building of the former Israelitische Töchterschule in Hamburg has been named after Marie Jonas' husband; it is called the Dr.-Alberto-Jonas house .
Web links
- Erika Hirsch: Dr. Marie Anna Jonas (nee Levinsohn) * 1893
- Doctors in the German Empire : Marie Anna Jonas, b. Levinsohn
- Marie-Jonas-Platz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lodge system , accessed on January 12, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jonas, Marie-Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levinsohn, Maria-Anna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fischhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1944 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz |