Nina Müller (Holocaust Victim)

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Nina Müller (born August 23, 1921 in Prague ; died April 17, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a victim of the Holocaust .

Stumbling stone on Falkenbergsweg

Life

Nina Müller's parents Karl Müller and Margarethe, née Meissl, were Jews. Karl Müller ran a law firm in Prague. The family was wealthy. Nina and her younger sister Melitta were accompanied by a governess as they grew up. Both sisters attended a German high school. Nina was linguistically gifted. In addition to her Czech mother tongue, she spoke German and English, enjoyed playing tennis and was a passionate dancer . In January 1939 she became very seriously ill.

After the German occupation of his homeland, her father was unable to continue running his office, so the family had to move into a smaller apartment for financial reasons. Nina Müller was allowed to finish school, but was then excluded from studying chemistry . Therefore she worked temporarily as a beautician in a salon, but was soon no longer wanted there.

On July 2, 1942, the Müller family was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp . Because of the poor working conditions, Nina Müller fell ill again and again. On December 18, 1943, the family was taken to Auschwitz concentration camp , where their father died on February 17, 1944 of untreated pneumonia .

Nina, her mother and her sister escaped murder in the gas chambers at Auschwitz because they were declared fit for work and deported to the Hamburg-Dessauer Ufer subcamp in July 1944 . In Hamburg, Nina was called in to clean up as part of the so-called Geilenberg program . The mother died on July 27, 1944 of blood poisoning that was far too late and inadequately treated .

Nina Müller and her sister were taken to the Neugraben subcamp two months later , where they worked with 498 other women on the construction of a prefabricated housing estate. They did not stay there for long, but after a while were taken to the Hamburg-Tiefstack subcamp. In this camp, Müller was seriously injured in a bomb attack. In the course of the evacuation of the various satellite camps, she and her sister were taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945 , where Nina Müller succumbed to her serious injuries and died on April 17, 1945.

Her sister Melitta returned to her homeland, but emigrated to the United States after the Prague Spring , where she still lives today.

A stumbling block was laid for Nina Müller in 2011 on Falkenbergsweg. This was the location of the Neugraben subcamp. The stumbling blocks by Anna Dawidowicz, Erika Dawidowicz, Ruth Frischmannová , Zuzana Glaserová, Elisabeth Polach, Alice Weilova and Lili Wertheimer are in the same place . At the suggestion of the Gedenken in Harburg initiative, a street in a new building area in the Hamburg-Harburg district is to be named after Nina Müller .

literature

  • Danuta Czech : Calendar of events in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 1939–1945. 2nd edition, Rowohlt, 1989.
  • Klaus Möller: Nina Müller. in: Peter de Knegt (Ed.): Olinka - A friendship that began during the war. 2010, pp. 273-274.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Nina Müller. In: Stolpersteine ​​in Hamburg. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Andreas Schmidt: Holocaust survivors: "I live with it, but don't suffer". September 8, 2011, accessed on November 23, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ Initiative Commemoration in Harburg: Stolpersteine. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The women of Fischbek - depth. In: sued-kultur.de. Accessed November 23, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Nina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holocaust victim
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1945
Place of death Bergen-Belsen concentration camp