Ruth Frischmannová

Stumbling stone on Falkenbergsweg

Ruth Frischmannová (born January 1, 1928 in Hradec Králové ; died May 4, 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Her parents, Rudolf and Anna Frischmann, were Jews. She had a sister, Kamila Sieglová, born three years older than her. Frischmann. Ruth was 12 years old when her life and that of her family suddenly took a turn in the rest of the Czech Republic from the Wehrmacht in 1939 . With this began the systematic oppression of the Czech and especially the Jewish population. The Czech Jews had to register immediately and wear the “Yellow Star” in public. Several orders were issued that further isolated the Jewish population socially and ultimately drove them to economic ruin. Under these stresses, Ruth's father, Rudolf Frischmann, collapsed and died in 1942.

Eleven months after the death of her father, Ruth was deported with her sister and mother to the Theresienstadt ghetto, which was a transit station to the Auschwitz extermination camp. In Theresienstadt, after a selection by an SS doctor, they were classified as fit for work in 1944 and deported to Hamburg, where they had to do forced labor one after the other in the “ Dessauer Ufer ”, Neugraben and Tiefstack satellite camps. The other 7,000 Czech Jews who were not classified as fit for work were deported to Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chambers.

In March 1945 Ruth was seriously injured in a bomb attack. Shortly thereafter, she was transferred with her mother and sister to Bergen-Belsen, where she succumbed to her injuries. Her mother and sister survived and returned to their homeland three months later.

literature

• Klaus Möller: Ruth Frischmannová , in: Peter de Knegt (Ed.): Olinka - A friendship that began during the war. 2010.

Web links

• CV at Stolpersteine-hamburg.de