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Susanna Appel (Ortweiler)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
Death: October 08, 1942 (48)
Auschwitz, Oswiecim, Occupied Poland (Murdered during Holocaust)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Albert Ortweiler and Lina Ortweiler
Wife of Jakob Appel
Mother of Joachim/John Appel, Prof. Dr. and Günter Appel
Sister of Hildegard Stiehl

Managed by: Sharon Meen
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About Susanna Appel

  • Date/place of birth identified in German National Archives, Memorial Book entry
  • Identified as child of Albert and Lina (née Ledermann) Ortweiler in Siegfried Wolf. Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol. 1, p. 10
  • Identified as wife of Jacob Appel, with year of marriage, see Wolf.
  • Identified as mother of Günter and Joachim Appel, see Wolf.
  • Date/place of death in German National Archives, Memorial Book entry:
  • Stolpersteine were laid for Susanna Appel (née Ortweiler), her husband Jakob, and son Günter in 2008. The text in Wikipedia tells us: "Susanna (*1894) und Hildegard Ortweiler (*1900) waren die Töchter Albert und Lina Ortweilers. Susanna Appel wurde im September 1941 nach einer Hausdurchsuchung der Weimarer Gestapo, wegen ein paar Eiern, die sie als Jüdin nicht besitzen durfte, verhaftet und kurz darauf ins Arbeitserziehungslager Breitenau deportiert. Von dort transportierte man sie in das KZ Ravensbrück und später nach Auschwitz. Susanna Appel starb dort am 8. Oktober 1942." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Weimar_(Thüringen) German National Archives, Memorial Book

Appel, Susanne
née Ortweiler
born on 10th June 1894 in Weimar / - / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach
resident of Weimar
Deportation:
17th February 1942, Ravensbrück, concentration camp
October 1942, Auschwitz, extermination camp
Date of death: 08th October 1942
Place of death: Auschwitz, extermination camp

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Susanna Appel's Timeline

1894
June 10, 1894
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
1921
August 11, 1921
Weimar, Thüringen, Germany
1924
October 18, 1924
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
1942
October 8, 1942
Age 48
Auschwitz, Oswiecim, Occupied Poland