Marta Gerau

• Birth date/place in Jüdische Gemeinde Hildburghausen (Kr. Hildburghausen), Matrikel 1826-1922, Koblenz: Bundesarchiv 1958.
• Identified as daughter of Abraham and Karolina (née Lang) Stern in Hildburghausen Matrikel cited above.
• Identified as wife of August Gerau, and mother of Anneliese Rehbock (née Gerau) in Hildburghausen Matrikel cited above.
• Marta Gerau was in the Breitenau Labour Camp for a month in 1943: "As a regional camp, Breitenau differed from the other camps, such as Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, and Dachau, which held both German and foreign prisoners. While the other camps took prisoners from throughout Germany, Breitenau's German prisoners only came from Kassel and Thuringia. Breitenau was an early concentration camp, holding political prisoners from the summer of 1933 to March 1934. During World War II, the Kassel Gestapo used the site as a labor "education" camp. The Weimar Gestapo, which had jurisdiction over the state of Thuringia, also sent its female prisoners to Breitenau. The total number of prisoners during this time was about 9,000, of which 6,500 were foreigners and 2,500 were German nationals. Among the German prisoners, about 200 were Jewish. After the November 1938 pogrom (Kristallnacht), twenty-four Jewish men were imprisoned at Breitenau." [Source: Learning from History, http://learning-from-history.de/International/content/8553]
• Death date/place in German National Archives, Memorial Book
• Stolpersteine have been laid for Marta Gerau (née Stern), Anneliese Rehbock (née Gerau), Adolf Rehbock, and Machol Peter Rehbock in Hildburghausen; see http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=37e721c0-953f...

German National Archives, Memorial Book
Gerau, Martha
née Stern
born on 08th August 1879 in Hildburghausen / - / Sachsen-Meiningen
resident of Adelhausen and Hildburghausen
Imprisonment:
29th January 1943 - 25th 3.1943, Suhl, court custody
25th 3.1943 - 19th April 1943, Breitenau, labor education camp
Deportation:
from Breitenau, labor education camp
19th April 1943, Auschwitz, extermination camp
Date of death: 17th June 1943
Place of death: Auschwitz, extermination camp