Sophie Sondhelm

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Sophie Sondhelm (born March 18, 1887 in Kleinlangheim ; murdered in 1944 in Auschwitz in a concentration camp) was a German nurse and home manager.

Sondhelm was born as the daughter of the baker and cattle dealer Seligmann Sondhelm and his wife Amalia. She completed her training as a nurse in the Israelite Asylum for the sick and the elderly in Cologne and worked mainly as a surgical nurse. In 1920 she took over the management of the Jewish children's home in Bad Kreuznach . She tried in vain to move the home of the Jewish community in Cologne to Palestine . She encouraged and helped many people to flee Germany, but stayed behind herself. In 1938 the home was devastated by National Socialist citizens and the carers evicted. Sophie Sondhelm went back to Cologne and worked in the Israelitisches Kindergarten Bachemer Strasse in Cologne-Lindenthal . In July 1939 she took over the management of a retirement home in Gailingen on the Swiss border. Sondhelm was in the home `` Isenburg '' in the period from 29./30. October 1941 to 4th / 5th April 1942. Then she went to Darmstadt at Eschollbrücker Strasse 4 1/2 . This was a Jewish retirement home.

In February 1943 she was deported to Theresienstadt and in October 1944 to Auschwitz .

In her memory, the Sophie-Sondhelm-Weg and the Integrated Comprehensive School Sophie Sondhelm were named after her in Bad Kreuznach .

literature

  • Irene Corbach: Sophie Sondhelm and the Cologne Jewish Children's Sanatorium Bad Kreuznach ; ISBN 3-921232-39-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Becker-Jákli: The Jewish hospital in Cologne: the history of the Israelite asylum for the sick and the elderly from 1869 to 1945 . Emons, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-350-0 , p. 423 f .
  2. ^ General newspaper Bad Kreuznach
  3. ↑ http://igs-sophie-sondhelm.de/
personal data
SURNAME Sondhelm, Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nurse and home manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinlangheim
DATE OF DEATH after 1944