Jenny Mayer (also Majer, Meier)

• Date/place of birth in German National Archives, Memorial Book, as well as Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 924; Laufende Nummer: 2200 (Ancestry.com)
• Jenny's birth name is spelled in various ways in various records.
• Identified as daughter of David Majer I and Karoline Steg in Hanno Müller, Juden in Lich : Birklar, Langsdorf, Muschenheim und Ettingshausen (2010), vol. 1, Entry No. 340; also Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Collection: Personenstandsregister Heiratsregister; Signatur: 924; Laufende Nummer: 2205 (Ancestry.com)
• Identified as second wife of Leopold Bamberger in record of their marriage on 09 April 1899 in Wohnbach/Hesse; see Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 924; Laufende Nummer: 2205 (Ancestry.com)
• identified as mother of Hugo and Flora Bamberger in Hanno Müller cited above.
• In the 1939 German Minority Census, Leopold and Jenny (née Mayer) were living in Frankfurt am Main. A post-war record tells us their last known address in Frankfurt a/Main was Thomasiusstr. 11; see https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/131598575
• On 10 September 1942, Leopold and Jenny (née Mayer) were forced to sign a contract with the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RV)(The National Association of German Jews) whereby they assigned all their remaining assets to the RV. The contract was called a "Heimeinkaufsvertrag" or "Home Purchase Contract" and was supposed to provide the Bambergers with room & board and medical attention and other care in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Instead, the money paid to the RV went directly into Nazi coffers, and Leopold and Jenny Bamberger did not receive any of the promised care. (Heimeinkaufsvertrag courtesy of Sikaron Felsberg)
• On 15 September 1942, Leopold and Jenny Bamberger were deported from Frankfurt a/Main to Ghetto Theresienstadt; see ghetto index card https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/5013419.
• Date/place of death in German National Archives, Memorial Book. See also death certificate in holocaust.cz, https://www.holocaust.cz/search-result/59/?fulltext-phrase=Jenny+Ba...

Entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book:
Bamberger, Jenny
née Majer
born on 28th May 1877 in Wohnbach / Friedberg / Hessen
resident of Frankfurt a. Main
Deportation:
from Frankfurt am Main
15th September 1942, Theresienstadt, ghetto
Date of death: 06th October 1942
Place of death: Theresienstadt, ghetto