Regina Steinitz

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Regina Steinitz (née Anders, born October 24, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German survivor of the Holocaust who is still a contemporary witness .

Live and act

Regina Anders was born together with her sister Ruth on October 24, 1930 in Berlin. When the twins were born, they already had two brothers from the marriage of their former Christian mother Martha Rajfeld, who converted to Judaism because of her marriage to the Jewish photographer Moritz Rajfeld . Her husband died early of tuberculosis . Simon Welner worked in the photo studio as an assistant who became the father of the (illegitimate) twins and the two brothers (Benno and Theo).

The sisters went to the Jewish girls 'school in Berlin's Auguststrasse, where their parents' house was also located. Her father managed to escape into American exile in 1938. When their mother also died of tuberculosis in 1940, Regina and Ruth were taken to the Jewish children's home on Fehrbelliner Strasse. As was the children's home closed, they lived in a Jewish foster family until in March 1943 by the SS picked up and the Gestapo - assembly camp on Grosse Hamburger Street were brought. Her non-Jewish uncle Robert, the mother's brother, managed to get both twin sisters to live with him, since he pretended that nothing was known about the father of the two. Regina lived there until the end of the war, while her sister came to see her grandmother.

After the war, she first worked as an infant sister in the children's home and finished school. The twin sisters emigrated together to Kibbutz Netzer Sereni in Israel in 1948 . There Regina met her future husband Zwi Helmut Steinitz , whom she married in 1949. They had a son together. Since 2003, the couple has often gone to Germany to tell their stories against oblivion. Her husband died in the summer of 2019.

Awards

  • 2012: Franz Bobzien Prize (together with her husband for the film project Life after Survival )

Works

  • Film: Life after Survival - Regina and Zwi Steinitz, high school students at the Georg Mendheim Upper School Center, Oranienburg, 2011
  • Film: contemporary witnesses , interview: Barbara Kurowska, Daniel Baranowski, 468 min, Germany / Israel, 2011
  • Monograph: Regina Steinitz, Regina Scheer: Destroyed childhood and youth: my life and survival in Berlin . Ed .: Leonore Martin and Uwe Neumärker. 1st edition. Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-942240-16-1 .
  • Film: The little dolls from Auguststrasse. A twin childhood in Berlin. Sally Musleh Jaber, Nadja Tenge, 30 min., 2015

literature

  • Regina Steinitz, Inge Franken: Against forgetting: memories of the Jewish children's home Fehrbelliner Straße 92 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . 2., revised. Edition Textpunkt Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938414-42-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Angelina Boczek: Regina Steinitz with Regina Scheer - Destroyed Childhood and Youth. My life and survival in Berlin. Edited by Leonore Martin and Uwe Neumärker. In: AVIVA-Berlin .de. August 29, 2015, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c BABYLON in Berlin - Regina Steinitz. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
  3. ^ Sophie Neuberg: "Everything burned". In: Jüdische Allgemeine . November 5, 2008, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b c d Anja Reich: Jewess Regina Steinitz: "My darling, you too would have kept your mouth shut". In: Berliner Zeitung. January 17, 2020, accessed on January 19, 2020 (German).
  5. ^ Georg Mendheim Upper School Center | Interview with Zwi and Regina Steinitz. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Thore Schröder: Regina Steinitz (88) experienced the pogrom of November 9, 1938 - the night in which my Berlin burned. In: image . November 9, 2018, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Helena Schätzle (pictures): Concentration camp survivors in Israel - "Nature, she has set me free". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 27, 2017, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  8. ^ Georg Mendheim Upper School Center | Life after survival - Regina and Zwi Steinitz. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
  9. ^ Film starts: The little dolls from Auguststrasse. A twin childhood in Berlin. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
  10. ↑ The dolls from the August street in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Steinitz, Regina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anders, Regina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German survivors of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin