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Jenny Grossmann (Aris)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Braunsberg, East Prussia, Germany
Death: March 01, 1942 (75)
Ghetto Theresiendstadt, Terezín, Occupied Czechoslovakia (Murdered in Holocaust )
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Aron Aris and Sara Aris
Wife of Bernhard Grossmann
Mother of Arno Grossmann; Henny Philipp and Gerhard Gideon Grossmann
Sister of Heinrich Aris; Friederike / Frieda Grossmann; Leopold Aris; Georg Aris and Julius Aris

Managed by: Sharon Meen
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About Jenny Grossmann

  • Date/place of birth in German National Archives, Memorial Book.
  • Identified as daughter of Aron and Sara (née Neumann) Aris in Siegfried Wolf, Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten, vol 1, pp. 180-1, as well as Identified as daughter of Aharon and Sara Aris by son Gerhard Grossmann in Page of Testimony he submitted to Yad Vashem in 1978.]
  • Identified as wife of Bernhard Grossmann, whom she married on 19 August 1901 in Berlin, in Wolf; For marriage certificate, see: Ancestry.com. Berlin, Germany, Marriages, 1874-1920 [database on-line].
  • Identified as mother of Arno, Henny, and Gerhard Grossmann in Siegfried Wolf, Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten, vol 1, pp. 180-1
  • In September 1942, Bernard and Jenny (née Aris) Grossmann were 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. Source: Heimeinkaufsvertrag Reichsvereinigung 569/ 500. (Courtesy: Sikaron Felsberg Lehmann Library)
  • Date/place of death see, Grossmann Jenny: Death Certificate, Ghetto Terezín at holocaust.cz database.
  • A Stolperstein was laid for Jenny Grossmann (née Aris) and her husband, Bernhard, in Eisenach in May 2010. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Eisenach
  • Entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/en1003561,

Grossmann, Jenny
née Aris
born on 01st October 1867 in Braunsberg / - / Ostpreußen
resident of Eisenach
Deportation:
from Weimar-Halle-Leipzig
20th September 1942, Theresienstadt, ghetto
Date of death: 01st March 1943
Place of death: Theresienstadt, ghetto

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Jenny Grossmann's Timeline

1867
February 1, 1867
Braunsberg, East Prussia, Germany
1903
May 13, 1903
Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany
1904
July 10, 1904
Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany
1906
March 31, 1906
Eisenach, Thüringen, Germany
1942
March 1, 1942
Age 75
Ghetto Theresiendstadt, Terezín, Occupied Czechoslovakia