Elfriede Löwenthal

Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:

• Löwenthal, Elfriede geboren am 09. Januar 1895 in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr / - / Rheinprovinz wohnhaft in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
• Deportationsziel: ab Düsseldorf 21. Juli 1942, Theresienstadt, Ghetto 15. Mai 1944, Auschwitz, Vernichtungslager
• Todesdatum/-ort: für tot erklärt

Biography (Google translated) from www.muelheim-ruhr.de/cms/bahnstrasse1.html:

Elfriede Loewenthal was born on 9 January 1895 as daughter of Juliane and Moses Loewenthal, both Jewish faith, in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The mother, Juliane Loewenthal born Feist was born on January 12, 1859 came from Bendorf (now Rhineland-Palatinate). Elfrida's father, the chief clerk Moses Loewenthal, born in 1853 in Lennep near Remscheid, died already in 1930. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mülheim, is where today to find his grave stone. Elfriede Loewenthal had two sisters, Henriette and seven years older than Johanna, born on 28 January 1888 in Lennep.

Elfriede Loewenthal's career began on Oberlyzeum in Oberhausen. There she was in 1914/15 their teaching exams and joined in June 1915, her service as a substitute teacher at the evangelical school at Mellinghofer road to (today municipal junior high school at the Mellinghofer road). The final appointment was made in March 1918 by the Royal Prussian Government, Department of Church and Education. Critical voices already expressed concerns about a 1922 appointing a Jewish teacher at a Protestant school. In its reply, however, the county and city council Peter pointed out that in the seven years of activity Elfriede Loewe valley at the Protestant school at Mellinghofer street no complaints were recorded and the Protestant character of the school was not endangered by their activities. Due to the political circumstances, the attitude changed towards Elfriede Loewenthal. On April 21, 1933 she was put on leave by the school board and the commissioner district president in Dusseldorf until further notice in order "to avoid unpleasant incidents."

In May 1933, Elfriede Loewenthal took over the behalf of the ill teacher in Dinslaken until she was two months later moved to the Jewish school in Essen. In April 1934, she went to its assigned place at the Jewish elementary school in Duisburg. There she taught under difficult conditions, and at times the only teacher all Jewish pupils from Duisburg and after the war began in 1939 10 students from Mülheim to the arranged closure of the school in late June 1942nd

The last freely chosen place of residence of Elfriede Loewenthal in Mülheim was Bahnstraße 44, where she lived with her mother and her sister Johanna Juliane together. From there, the forcible relocation took place in the "Jewish house" Delle 29. In July 1942 the family was deported via Dusseldorf in the Theresienstadt ghetto. There, the 84 year-old mother died in early 1943 the hardships and harassment of deportation. Her daughter Elfriede was probably further deported to Auschwitz, where they were murdered and declared a May 8, 1945 dead. Previously, the older sister Johanna was deported in April 1942 after Izbica and was later killed in the Sobibor extermination camp. About the life and fate of Henriette Loewenthal, Elfriede's second sister, nothing is known.

cf.: http://www.muelheim-ruhr.de/cms/bahnstrasse1.html

• Born 09. 01. 1895
• Last residence before deportation: Mühlheim/Ruhr
• Transport VII/1, no. 510 (22. 07. 1942, Düsseldorf -> Terezín)
• Transport Dz, no. 1792 (15. 05. 1944, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
• Murdered

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