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About Bertha Popper
"When Bertha Helle and Kurt Popper got married in Sept. 1939, the bride, 29 years old at the time, brought three children into the marriage, for this was her second marriage. Born on 26 May 1909 in the Palatine town of Rockenhausen as the daughter of the Jewish couple Salomon and Rosa Roeben, née Rosenzweig, she had married the non-Jewish Carl Oscar Helle in Hamburg in the early 1930s. In Apr. 1932, the young couple had their first child: a girl they named Elise Ingeborg. About a year later, Oskar followed, and after yet another year, on 5 Aug. 1934, a boy by the name of Wolfgang was born. Soon after Wolfgang’s birth, the couple separated, and from Mar. 1935 onward, Bertha Helle lived, without her husband but with her three little children, at Wichernweg 28 in Hamburg-Hamm.
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Just a few months before their marriage, Bertha and Kurt Popper succeeded in having five-year-old Wolfgang depart Germany on a "children transport” (Kindertransport). He went directly from the Paulinenstift to Göteborg in Sweden, where he arrived on 5 July 1939, and he was taken in by the family of Pastor Gustav Palmlöf. He had on his person a German vaccination certificate and his birth certificate. Oskar and Inge did not have this opportunity. Together with their mother and her husband, Kurt Popper, they were deported to Minsk on 18 Nov. 1941. The same transport also included Kurt’s parents as well as his sisters Hildegard and Klara. None of them survived.
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Wolfgang Helle was initially declared dead by the Hamburg District Court (Amtsgericht) on 22 Nov. 1962. Only during more intensive investigations in 1963 in the course of the restitution proceedings that Bertha Popper’s surviving sisters Meta Ransenberg and Selma Jilek had initiated, it turned out that after the war, he had stayed with the Swedish pastor and his wife as a foster child, acquired Swedish citizenship later on, and continued to live in Göteborg. "
Source http://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?MAIN_ID=7&BIO_ID=1336
In the above source the maiden name of Bertha was mis-spelled Roeben.
Bertha Popper's Timeline
1909 |
May 26, 1909
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Rockenhausen, Germany
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1932 |
April 8, 1932
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Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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1933 |
March 10, 1933
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Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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1936 |
March 10, 1936
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Hamburg, HH, Germany
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1941 |
1941
Age 31
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Minsk
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