Margarete Jäger

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Margarete Jäger (Gassenheimer)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Themar, Thuringia, Germany
Death: May 1942 (39)
Ghetto Bełżyce, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland (Holocaust)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Ernst Gassenheimer and Rosa Gassenheimer
Wife of Siegfried Jäger
Mother of Johannes Lothar Jäger, twin and Ruth Fanni Jäger, twin
Sister of Herbert Gassenheimer; Charlotte Rosenbaum and Albert Gassenheimer

Managed by: Ingrid Meissner
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About Margarete Jäger

  • Birth date in Ancestry.com. Germany, Deaths of German Citizens Abroad, Registers from Berlin Standesamt 1, 1939-1955
  • Birth place in Gedenkbuck below.
  • Identified as wife of Siegfried Jager in Death of German Citizens citation above.
  • Death date/place in Death of German Citizens citation above.
  • Identified as daughter of Ernst Gassenheimer and Rosa Rosenbaucher in Gassenheimer Descendant Report (Courtesy: N. Ackman)
  • Identified as mother of Ruth and Johannes Jaeger in Descendant Report cited above.
  • Stolpersteine were laid for Margarete Jäger, her husband Siegfried, and twins in Glauchau; see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Glauchau. Unfortunately, the script on the stones is incorrect, as Margarete and her children were murdered in Belzyce Ghetto, not Belzec.
  • Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:

Jäger, Margarete
geborene Gassenheimer
geboren am 23. August 1902 in Themar / Hildburghausen / Sachsen-Meiningen
wohnhaft in Glauchau und Chemnitz
Deportation:
Train Da 27 Weimar - Leipzig
10. Mai 1942, Belzyce, Ghetto
Todesdatum: Mai 1942
Todesort: Belzyce, Ghetto

Please see S. Meen, https://judeninthemar.org/the-family-of-itzig-amelie-gassenheimer/

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Margarete Jäger's Timeline

1902
August 23, 1902
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1937
March 15, 1937
Glauchau, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
March 15, 1937
Glauchau, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
1942
May 1942
Age 39
Ghetto Bełżyce, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland