Resi Weglein
Resi Weglein , née Regensteiner (born February 15, 1894 in Nördlingen , † January 28, 1977 in Ulm ) was a German entrepreneur's wife who was deported as a Jew to the Theresienstadt ghetto during the Nazi regime and, as a nurse, confessed the suffering of the inmates under extreme conditions tried to mitigate.
Life
Resi Weglein was born in Nördlingen. During the First World War , she retrained to become a nurse in 1915. In the hospital she probably met her future husband Siego (Siegmund) Weglein. After the war, Siegmund Weglein ran a clothing store in Ulm, where Resi Weglein worked after her marriage in 1922. Because of the National Socialist denunciations and the hunt against Jews and Jewish shops, the Weglein closed the clothing store in 1935. While the two sons were able to flee to the Netherlands in 1939 , the entrepreneur couple was deported to Theresienstadt via the Stuttgart North Railway Station in August 1942 . Shortly after arrival, Resi Weglein began to work as a nurse in the self-administration's health service. There she and other nurses tried to alleviate the inhumane conditions for the inmates and to provide the inmates with medical care. After the Red Army liberated Theresienstadt on May 9, 1945, Resi and Siegmund Weglein returned to Ulm on July 8. From there they both wanted to emigrate to the United States and thus follow one of their sons there. However, since Siegmund Weglein was in need of care, it was not possible to move.
Only against the opposition of the authorities could the couple enforce reparation payments and an increase in their small pension in the following years .
Resi Weglein died on January 28, 1977 in Ulm.
Honors
In Ulm, a street was named after her in honor of Resi Weglein. A tram car in Ulm bears your name.
literature
- Resi Weglein: As a nurse in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Memories of a Jewish woman from Ulm . Silberburg-Verlag , Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3925344343
radio
- Karin Sommer: As a nurse in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Memories of the Ulm Jew Resi Weglein. Radio broadcast on June 27, 1992, Bayerischer Rundfunk.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weglein, Resi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Regensteiner, Resi (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nurse in the Theresienstadt concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Noerdlingen , Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1977 |
| Place of death | Ulm |