Auguste Golde Zöllner

• http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/en1186446
• https://www.potsdam.de/content/auguste-zoellner-geb-hirschberg
• https://www.holocaust.cz/de/opferdatenbank/opfer/37561-auguste-zoel...

Auguste Zöllner, b. Hirschberg

Auguste Zöllner, daughter of a long-established and prominent Potsdam family, was deported to Theresienstadt on 16 June 1943 with the "91st Alter Transport". She succumbed to these strains at the age of 91 years.

The Hirschberg family, into which Auguste was born on 1.12.1851, was a very prominent Jewish family well known far beyond the borders of Potsdam. August's older brother Julius (1843-1925) was a world-famous scientist, a professor at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, Privy Medical Councilor and innovative ophthalmologist with his own ophthalmological center in the Reich capital. Brother Rudolf (1850-1926) enjoyed a high reputation as a successful banker and until his death he was a member of the synagogue assembly and its funeral fraternity "Chewra Kadischa".

Brother Wilhelm (1858-1919) lived in Jägerallee 7 and was with Meta Hirschberg, b. Katzmann (1865-1942 Auschwitz) married. Their son Dr. med. Fritz Hirschberg, with private practice in Potsdam, emigrated to Norway in 1939. Auguste married Julius Zöllner (born 5.12.1839, died 17.6.1891). The marriage produced two children. Widowed early, she inherited the house in Jägerallee 8. After the death of her children in 1910 and 1939, she remained alone in Potsdam. In the Nazi era, the already 80-year-old lady was systematically robbed of all family and land ownership. In vain she tried to forestall the loss of fortune through generous "donations." Auguste Zöllner was deported to Theresienstadt in 1943 at the age of 91 and only survived this fate for a few days.

The representative family tomb of the Hirschberg family in the Jewish cemetery Potsdam was built with red sandstone from the Rhine-Main region - the same material used since 1903 on the facade of the synagogue on Wilhelmplatz.

Address: Stumbling block for Auguste Zöllner, b. Hirschberg Jägerallee 8 14469 Potsdam Germany

Moses Hirschberg and Henriette Zellner are listed as Wolff Wilhelm Hirschberg's 1888 marriage record. Therefore, they are also the parents of all his siblings: Isidor Julius Hirschberg, Rudolf Hirschberg, Auguste Zoellner, and Wolff Wilhelm himself.

cf.: https://dewiki.de/Lexikon/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Potsdam