Kromolowski, Henriette

Henriette Kromolowski was born in Katowice in October 1878 as the daughter of the Jewish merchant Adolf Kromolowski and his wife. Her parents lived in good circumstances; she still had four siblings, all of whom attended high school. Henriette Kromolowski remained unmarried; from 1934 she lived together with her sister Erna Grabowski, née Kromolowski, her husband Herbert and their daughter Mirjam at Wartburgstraße 29 in Berlin-Schöneberg. In 1938, the daughter Mirjam emigrated to Palestine. In 1939, Henriette Kromolowski had to leave the apartment at Wartburgstraße 29 with her sister and brother-in-law; all furnishings had to be sold at knock-down prices. They moved to Fregestraße 58 into furnished rooms. In 1940, the sister and brother-in-law managed to emigrate to La Paz (Bolivia). Henriette Kromolowski had to move out of Fregestraße 58 after the sister and brother-in-law left and moved into Mommsenstraße 4 as a subtenant with Wallach. She died there on May 27, 1942, from an overdose of sleeping pills. She was buried in the Weißensee Jewish Cemetery. Her niece Mirjam was still living in New York in 2012 at a ripe old age.