Stones of Remembrance
Stones of Memory
From this place the last Jewish inhabitants of Halberstadt were deported on 12.4.1942, their names can be found on the stones of remembrance. On the other hand, there are also many people who survived the Holocaust. We now present to you how the families of this tour fared after 1933.The Gotzmann family managed to emigrate to England in April 1939 and could first stay with some relatives. Benjamin Gotzmann could once again run a successful tailoring shop in London.Five of the Winter family’s six children were able to emigrate to Palestine: Sara, Rosa, Sammy, Judith/Ida and Max (Motke)David, had been on the same Kindertransport to England as Lilly Cohn. After the war he also emigrated to Palestine/Israel. Only in the 1990s did Judith/Ida Biran, née Winter, find out that her parents were shot and killed there in June 1942 and buried in a mass grave nearby.Lilly Cohn left Halberstadt on July 19, 1939 on a Kindertransport to England and her brother Werner managed to escape also on a Kindertransport. After the war, their relatives brought them to New York. Ernst and Margarete Cohn were deported to Warsaw on April 12, 1942. Hugo Cohn died on October 2, 1942 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery on Klein Quenstedter Strasse.In order to at least bring Ruth Lindheimer to safety, she was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1939. Nanny Lindheimer and Helene Lewin were not able to escape. On April 12, 1942, both women were transported to the Warsaw Ghetto and murdered in Auschwitz. Ida Edelnand remained with her parents in Halberstadt. They did not manage to escape from Germany. On April 12, 1942, Israel, Henriette Irene and Ida Edelnand were deported from the Domplatz (Cathedral Square) in Halberstadt. They were taken to the Warsaw Ghetto via Magdeburg.Salli (John) was also able to escape to England on a Kindertansport that summer of 1939, just a few days before the invasion of Poland. His mother gave him a bar of “good” soap and his father gave him practical things like military dishes and cutlery and a silver watch he had made himself.Salli, who later went by John, began an apprenticeship as a watchmaker. He settled down in Luton outside of London and there established a watch and jewelry shop.On March 20, 1939, all of the Knopf children left Halberstadt. Their parents were also able to emigrate to England a few weeks later. The parents, Mendel and Fradel Knopf, along with Erna, Max, Lasar and Salli remained in England after 1945. Hans Knopf later settled in Israel.Thank you for listening to this tour. If you want to know more about these families you are welcome to visit the Berend Lehmann Museum in the Judenstraße 25/26 an at Rosenwinkel 18.
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Jewish Families