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Else Rothfels (Fackenheim)

Also Known As: "Elsa"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bebra, Kassel, Hesse, Germany
Death: 1942 (46-47)
Distrikt Lublin, Occupied Poland (Shoah)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Isidor Fackenheim and Rosa Fackenheim
Wife of Julius Rothfels
Mother of Werner Rothfels and Rosel Rothfels
Sister of Willy Fackenheim; Hedwig Fackenheim and Ida Abraham

Managed by: Ingrid Meissner
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About Else Rothfels

  • Date/place of birth identified in Siegfried Wolf. Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol 2 (unpaginated)
  • identified as daughter of Isidor Fackenheim of Bebra in Stolperstein text (see below).
  • Identified as wife of Julius Rothfels, see Wolf
  • Identified as mother of Werner and Rosel Rothfels, see Wolf
  • Stolpersteine were laid for the Rothfels family in 2010. The text accompanying Else Rothfels states: ,,Else ist als Tochter des in Bebra beheimateten Wirtes Isidor Fackenheim geboren. Wahrscheinlich in Kassel heiratete sie Julius Rothfels. Hier kam ihr Sohn Werner zur Welt, dem sich drei Jahre später ein Schwesterchen zugesellte, das in Bebra geboren wurde. Else lebte seit ihrer Übersiedlung nach Eisenach gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann am Jakobsplan. Sie starb, so wie Julius, in Belzyce."; see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Eisenach

Entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book':
Rothfels, Else
née Fackenheim
born on 24th January 1895 in Bebra / Rotenburg i. Hessen-Nassau / Hessen-Nassau
resident of Eisenach
Deportation:
from Weimar-Leipzig
10th May 1942, Belzyce, ghetto

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Else Rothfels's Timeline

1895
January 24, 1895
Bebra, Kassel, Hesse, Germany
1926
September 27, 1926
Kassel, Hesse, Germany
1929
May 28, 1929
Bebra, Hesse, Germany
1942
1942
Age 46
Distrikt Lublin, Occupied Poland