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Else/Elsa Kahn

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Themar, Thuringia, Germany
Death: circa 1944 (51-60)
Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Occupied Poland (Murdered in Holocaust)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Josef Kahn and Hulda Walther
Wife of Martin Markus Rosenberg
Mother of Julius Rosenberg; Irma Rosenberg; Elly Eisemann and Erich Josef Rosenberg
Sister of Albert Kahn; Leonhard Kahn; Paula Kahn; Friedrich Daniel Kahn; Julius Kahn and 2 others

Managed by: Sharon Meen
Last Updated:

About Else/Elsa Kahn

  • See S. Meen, "The Family of Josef & Hulda (née Walther) Kahn of Themar," https://judeninthemar.org/the-josef-hulda-kahn-family/
  • See S. Meen, "Die Familie von Else (geb. Kahn) & Markus ROSENBERG," http://judeninthemar.org/the-kahn-familyjosef-hulda-walther-kahn/th...
  • Date/place of birth in Jüdische Gemeinde Themar (Kr. Hildburghausen), Matrikel, 1876-1937, Staatsarchiv Thüringen, Meiningen.
  • Identified as daughter of Josef Kahn and Hulda Walther in Themar Matrikel.
  • Identified as wife of Martin Rosenberg in Siegfried Wolf, Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol 2 (unpaginated)
  • Identified as mother of Julius, Irma, Elly, and Erich in Themar Matrikel.
  • On 20 September 1942, Elsa Rosenberg was forced to sign a so-called "retirement home purchase contract" for room and board in Theresienstadt. All her remaining assets were transferred to the Reich Association of German Jews, to be further transferred to Reich coffers. The contract, called a "Heimeinkaufsvertrag," can be found in the Sikaron Felsberg Lehmann-Library.
  • Date/place of death in German National Archives below.
  • Stolpersteine were laid for Else, Markus, and Julius Rosenberg in Themar.
  • As well, see the records in the Arolsen Archives re:Elsa Kahn at https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/?s=elsa%20rosenberg

Entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book
Rosenberg, Elsa Else
née Kahn
born on 12th December 1888 in Themar / Hildburghausen / Sachsen-Meiningen
resident of Themar
Deportation:
from Leipzig
20th September 1942, Theresienstadt, ghetto
18th May 1944, Auschwitz, Konzentrations-and extermination camp:

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Else/Elsa Kahn's Timeline

1888
December 12, 1888
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1910
January 30, 1910
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1911
February 15, 1911
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1913
May 16, 1913
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1915
April 11, 1915
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1944
1944
Age 55
Auschwitz Extermination Camp, Occupied Poland