Bella Ackermann

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Bella Ackermann was born in Rülzheim in the Palatinate and was married to the Jewish teacher and cantor Simon Ackermann, who died on April 12, 1930. The couple lived in Salzwedel and had four children, the daughters Caroline and Alice as well as the sons Sally and Kurt, both of whom worked as bank clerks in the banking house Herman Bacharach in Salzwedel. Sally died in 1933 at the age of 26 years. After the death of her husband and her son Sally, Bella Ackermann continued to live in her home. In 1931 her daughter Alice was registered as a "temporary resident". Alice was married to Hugo Feibelmann, who emigrated to Switzerland. Alice and her son Hans, born in 1932, emigrated to Paris. They were arrested there at the Velodrome Action on 16 July 1942 and deported on 3 August 1942 via Drancy to Auschwitz and murdered.

Bella Ackermann was under pressure to sell the house and moved on June 15, 1937 to Frankfurt am Main in the Rothschild old retirement home in the Zeil 92, where she lived until July 31, 1941. The sale of their property in Salzwedel is documented on 16 December 1938. To earn a living, Bella Ackermann worked in the Rothschild retirement home. From March to October 1941, she completed a cookery course and a pastry class to prepare for life in emigration. Therefore, she asked the Foreign Exchange Office on December 28, 1940 for RM 100, which she had to pay for a cooking class in the Rothschild retirement home. As early as June 1, 1939, Bella Ackermann asked the foreign exchange office for a monthly remittance from her own assets of RM 500, as she needed more medication as a diabetic.

On August 1, 1941, Bella Ackermann moved to Humboldtstraße 7, a so-called "Jew's House," where anti-Semitic persecutees were forcibly concentrated before their deportation from Frankfurt. On October 3, 1941 she created a removal list for the planned emigration, on 22.10.1941 the delivery of two suitcases was confirmed by the Jewish community. Bella Ackermann wanted to emigrate in November 1941 from Berlin via Lisbon to exile in Cuba. She traveled to Berlin, but her emigration failed there and she had to return to Frankfurt. On July 28, 1942, she was sent a "currency criminal case," as she had two of her silver coffee spoons and wool to knit on the way as part of her journey to emigration in her carry-on luggage, which were considered "payable."

Bella Ackermann's daughter Caroline lived with husband Ernest Levy and her son Werner (later Leon) in Ostendstraße 24 in Frankfurt. The family Levy and Kurt Ackermann managed to emigrate to the US in August 1937.

The stumbling block was initiated by Leon Levy, grandson of Bella Ackermann. people Bella Ackermann, b. Cahn Date of birth: 16/12/1870 Deportation: 15.9.1942 Theresienstadt Date of death: 02/24/1944