Baum, Martha

Martha Baum, née Cohn, was born in Berlin on 13.12.1880 as the fifth child of the meat merchant Moritz (Mendel) Cohn and his wife Therese. Her mother died when she was two years old. In 1909/10 Martha Cohn had her own photographic studio in Frankfurter Allee. In 1910 she married Wolf Felix Baum. Her two daughters, Mia Mirjam and Gerda, were both able to emigrate in time, Mia to Palestine and Gerda to Chile. In September 1941, the Baum couple was expelled from their apartment at Meraner Str. 8 and forcibly moved into the house at Nymphenburger Strasse 4 with Mrs. Pauline Borchardt, the last Jewish tenant in this house. From there they were deported to Riga on January 19, 1942, where the train arrived three days later. If they survived the transport in unheated freight cars at minus 30 to 40 degrees, they were probably murdered immediately after their arrival.