http://inge-franken.de/ 2026-04-22T10:37:20+00:00 http://inge-franken.de/ http://inge-franken.de/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2007-12-20T10:15:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/eliaha?rev=1198145742&do=diff The Story of MAX ELIAHA STERNGAST Extracts from Bernd Roder’s interview with Max Eliaha Sterngast in 1994. I have deliberately retained the spoken style for the most part. I learnt so many new details of the children’s home and life as a Jewish child in a hostile world from the account that I am pleased to be able to include the text in this book. [ text/html 2007-12-20T10:08:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/gideon?rev=1198145317&do=diff Story of Gideon Behrendt With the childrens transport to freedom Excepts from the Book: With the Children transport to freedom / Mit dem Kindertransport in die Freiheit, Gideon Behrendt, Fischer, ISBN 3-596-15082-5 bzw. ISBN 978-3596150823, bei Amazon While I felt warmly cradled in my mother’s womb, the world “outside” was going topsy-turvy. Germany experienced the world’s worst monetary inflation of all time. A loaf of bread cost millions of Reichsmarks, salaries were paid out to workers da… text/html 2007-11-21T10:40:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/gittel?rev=1195641656&do=diff MY ENCOUNTER WITH RUTH AND GITTEL SÜSSMANN’S STORY Text: Inge Franken One morning in January 2002, my friend Salomea rang me up. She knew that I was trying to discover the history of the children’s home in Fehrbelliner Strasse 92, and she had told Eva Nickel, who works in the Jewish Community of Berlin, about my efforts. This is how I found out that Eva Nickel's two sisters, Ruth and Gittel, had also been in the children’s home. I rang Frau Nickel at once and arranged a meeting. text/html 2010-01-20T10:22:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/howitwenton?rev=1263982934&do=diff How the story went on After much preparation, a memorial plaque was unveiled on 14 March 2003 at the house where the former children’s home had been located. Gideon B., from Israel, took part in the ceremony to represent the survivors. Children from the nearby primary school recalled the murdered children; friends of mine and some of those who currently work in the house read the names of the adults who had not survived the Shoa. It was a moving event, attended by many people. I thought that i… text/html 2007-12-20T10:12:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/introduction?rev=1198145551&do=diff Introduction: Why I did this project I have known the house at 92 Fehrbelliner Strasse, in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, since 1998. When I arrived at the house one day I was greeted by some of the women working there, who told me excitedly: A few days ago, an old man came to the house, looked at everything and said that he had lived in this house as a Jewish child. That is how I discovered that the house had been a Jewish children's home. This thought haunted me and I became driven… text/html 2007-11-21T10:10:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/jacob?rev=1195639814&do=diff Story of Jacob Herfeld I am a Jewish person and above all I am a human being The contact to Jacob Herfeld came about through an advertisement in the magazine “Jüdisches Berlin” (Jewish Berlin) Volume 4, No. 37/10 – 2001. The report is based on an interview on 10 September 2001 with Alexa Dvorson and Inge Franken. text/html 2007-11-21T11:00:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/kosmala?rev=1195642806&do=diff THE SHORT LIVES OF RUTH AND GITTEL SÜSSMANN Text: Beate Kosmala The sisters Ruth and Gittel Süssmann are among the children who were taken in by the children’s home in Fehrbelliner Strasse 92 in the early 1940s. Their short lives ended in Auschwitz. When they were deported in August 1944, the girls had experienced an odyssey of living undercover in Berlin and a year’s stay in Weimar, which came to a terrible end when they were discovered by the Gestapo. text/html 2007-12-20T09:58:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/malin?rev=1198144728&do=diff The story of Ruth Malin MY MEMORIES OF THE CHILDREN’S HOME AT FEHRBELLINER STRASSE 92 Text: Ruth Malin, née Anders, Summer 2003 It was already dark when we entered the Jewish children’s home at Fehrbelliner Strasse 92, holding our uncle’s hands, walked up the stairs and knocked on an office door. A lady received us; she spoke to my uncle, whose hand I was holding. It all seemed so dark and gloomy. Then my uncle said goodbye and promised to visit us. He left hastily; it must have been painful … text/html 2010-04-27T07:01:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/regina_g?rev=1272351713&do=diff :!: Diese Seite darf/soll nicht mehr öffentlich sichtbar sein (Inge, 27.4.2020) :!: The Story of Regina G. LIVING AND WORKING IN THE CHILDREN’S HOME Extracts from Bernt Roder’s interviews with Regina G. in 1996 Regina G. born in 1924, was an apprentice in the kindergarten in Fehrbelliner Strasse from 1939 to 1940. She left the school she had attended up to that time “voluntarily”: “It had become unbearable,because I was completely alone, all by myself. No one talked to me, I was so alone.”… text/html 2012-02-05T19:17:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/sidebar?rev=1328469465&do=diff Life Stories Part 1 * Start * About me / Über mich * Stolpersteine * Life Stories Part 2 (New) * Life Stories Part 1 * Introduction * The end: deportation, exil, surviving * Story of Tosca K. * Her Family 1922 to 1943 * A Trip to Sachsenhausen * A Trip to Poland * Story of Jacob Herfeld * Story of Gideon B. * Story of Max Eliaha Sterngast * Story of Ruth and Gittel Süssmann * The short life of Ruth and Gittel Süssmann * How the story went on… text/html 2007-12-20T10:40:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/start?rev=1198147228&do=diff Life Stories Welcome to this collection of life stories. Start reading here. text/html 2012-07-01T11:10:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/steinitz?rev=1341141050&do=diff The Story of Regina St. Memories of the Jewish children’s home Text:Regina St. née Anders. Written in summer 2003 My name is Regina St. née Anders. I and my twin sister Ruth were born on 24 October 1930 in Berlin. We have two older brothers, Benno and Theo text/html 2007-12-20T09:56:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/sylvia?rev=1198144619&do=diff Story of Schulamith Khalef, nee Sylvia Wagenberg Notes written by Regina St. for her sick friend Summer 2003 My name is Schulamith Khalef, born in 1928 as Sylvia Wagenberg in Dessau. In either 1934 or 35 my mother Lia (Lea) moved to Berlin with me and my sister text/html 2010-10-05T05:16:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/thanks?rev=1286255774&do=diff Thanks Translations Bridget Schäfer * Story of Jacob Herfeld * Story of Ruth and Gittel Süssmann * The short life of Ruth and Gittel Süssmann * Story of Max Eliaha Sterngast * Story of Ruth M. * Story of Regina St. * How it went on * More and more people’s stories are coming to light * Avraham Amitai * Epilogue: Ruth and Gitti Süssmann Gerti Wilford * The end: deportation, exil, surviving Gideon Behrendt * Story of Gideon Behrendt Jeanette Davidson * Story of S… text/html 2010-12-02T16:38:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/theend?rev=1291307923&do=diff The End: Deportation, Exile, Survival The mass deportations of the Jews from Berlin began on October 14th 1941. In at least 21 of the transports to the death camps were children and adults from the Childrens’ Home in Fehrbelliner Strasse 92. The oldest was text/html 2007-12-28T10:12:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/tosca?rev=1198836721&do=diff The Story of Tosca K. During my research into the history of the Jewish Children's Home in the Fehrbelliner Strasse 92 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg I took up contact to Tosca K. who, together with her siblings, Aron and Sonya, had gone to this home as children in the thirties. Tosca was the only one of her family to survive the Nazis by being taken to England on one of the text/html 2007-12-28T09:40:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/toscanewcontact?rev=1198834851&do=diff A Jewish Family in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg between 1922 and 1943 written by Sophie Lange Sima Süssman, nee Fluss (*18.8.1891) and her husband Jakob (*26.8.1884) came to Berlin from Pysnica in Poland between 1922 and 1924. Why? We suspect that the living conditions were worse in Poland than in Berlin and that they wanted to find better jobs and also a better education for their children. In Poland Jews experienced pogroms and persecution long before the National Socialists came to power in Germ… text/html 2010-02-09T14:16:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/toscapoland?rev=1265725003&do=diff A Trip to Poland - 7th to 10th February 2007 Text: Inge Franken and Sophie N. On Wednesday 7th February Karina, Sophie from the John Lennon College and I left the Hauptbahnhof-Berlin at 6.30 a.m. on our way to Pysznica, Stalowa Wola, Sokolow Malapolski text/html 2007-12-20T10:25:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://inge-franken.de/fehrbelliner92/toscasachsenhausen?rev=1198146327&do=diff A Day in Sachsenhausen Notes from the diary of Sophie Lange, Berlin, 14th December 2006 On Tuesday 12th December we set out for the former concentration camp at Sachsenhausen. We hoped to find out more about the circumstances of Aron and Jakob Süssman’s