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Hedwig Wallach (Brandenburger)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: New York, NY, United States
Death: after May 15, 1944
KZ Auschwitz, Poland (Holocaust)
Immediate Family:

Wife of Alexander (Alex*) Adolph Wallach
Mother of Edith Stein and Anna Greve

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Immediate Family

About Hedwig Wallach

Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:

  • Wallach, Hedwig
  • geb. Brandenburger
  • geboren am 02. Januar 1873
  • in New York/USA
  • wohnhaft in Wiedenbrück
  • DEPORTATION
  • ab Münster - Bielefeld
  • 31. Juli 1942, Theresienstadt, Ghetto
  • 15. Mai 1944, Auschwitz, Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager

cf.: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Rheda-Wied...ück

Hedwig WALLACH, née BRANDENBURGER: b. 2 Jan 1873, Rheda-Wiedenbruck - d. after 15 May 1944, Auschwitz, HOLOCAUST

Details of deportation and subsequent death courtesy of:

https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/35591-hedwig...

Born 02. 01. 1873 Born name: Brandenburger
Transport XI/1, no. 568 (01. 08. 1942, Münster -> Terezín)
Transport Dz, no. 2198 (15. 05. 1944, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
Murdered

And also cf.:

https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=5583...

Hedvig Volakh Wallach nee Brandenburger was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1875. Prior to WWII she lived in Wiedenbruck, Germany. During the war she was in Terezin, Czechoslovakia.

Hedvig was murdered in the Shoah (according to this source).

This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed here) submitted by her granddaughter, Ruth Rut Paz Shtein Stein

Last Name Volakh
Last Name Wallach
First Name Hedvig
First Name Hedwig
Maiden Name Brandenburger
Gender Female
Age 68
Date of Birth 1875
Place of Birth Stuttgart,Stuttgart (Stuttgart),Wuerttemberg,Germany
Spouse's First Name Aleksander
Spouse's First Name Alexander
Permanent Place of Residence Wiedenbruck,Wiedenbrück Westphalia,Germany
Citizenship Germany
Place during the War Wiedenbruck,Wiedenbrück Westphalia,Germany
Place during the War Terezin,Ghetto,Czechoslovakia
Status according to Source murdered
Submitter's Last Name Paz
Submitter's Last Name Shtein
Submitter's Last Name Stein
Submitter's First Name Ruth
Submitter's First Name Rut
Relationship to Victim Granddaughter
Source Yad Vashem - Pages of Testimony Names Memorial Collection
Type of material Page of Testimony
Item ID 5583415

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Hedwig Wallach's Timeline

1873
January 2, 1873
New York, NY, United States
1897
April 15, 1897
Rheda Wiedenbrück, Detmold, NRW, Germany
1901
1901
Rheda Wiedenbrück, Detmold, NRW, Germany
1944
May 15, 1944
Age 71
KZ Auschwitz, Poland