Julie Sichel

To Mark Tritsch: I have shortened your story of my great-grand-aunt a bit because her medical history is totally private. You would not wish to have your own personal medical history published unverified on the internet, do you? Thank you for your understanding. Beatrice Marta Maier

Julie Maier was born in Ulm on 19th December 1857. Her family in Ulm had a clothing business. She married Gustav Sichel from Aub in 1882 and went to live with him in Bamberg in Bavaria. They set up and ran a clothing store and had four children. Around 1901 the marriage broke down and Julie went back to Ulm (actually Neu-Ulm, on the Bavarian side of the River Danube) and lived there with two of the children until at least 1914. The other two children (probably Arthur and Rosa) stayed with their father, who set up a deli business for a couple of years (probably Julie was the brains behind the clothing business) and then they moved to Munich in 1906. She was taken to the Hartheim extermination facility in 1940 (she was 82) and murdered with gas there as part of the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people.