Brewer, Wilhelm

Wilhelm "Willi" Brauer was born on November 2, 1880 in Kaminitz in Silesia, the son of merchants David and Dorothea Brauer. Wanda Brauer, née Jüttner, who had been married to him since 1910, was born in Posen (Poznan) on March 16, 1880. Her parents were the merchant Simon Jüttner and his wife Ida Schirmer.

Wanda and Willi lived in Danzig until 1920 and then moved to Berlin. They had two children: Irma and Alfred Brauer. Irma, a clerk and stenographer, managed to escape to England. Alfred was a doctor. He was only allowed to work as a nurse because of the National Socialist race laws. In 1941, disenfranchised and humiliated, he died of tuberculosis in Berlin.

His young widow Ingeborg, née Frey, and their joint two-year-old son Denny Brauer, along with Ingeborg's second husband, Gert Schlesinger, and newborn Zilla Schlesinger, were deported to Auschwitz on March 4, 1943, and murdered. Stolpersteine have been laid for them at Giesebrechtstraße 18 in Charlottenburg. See http://www.berlin.de/ba-charlottenb...

Wanda and Willhelm Brauer were deported as part of the so-called "Fabrikaktion" (the deportation of Jewish forced laborers still in Berlin) on March 3, 1943, in a Reichsbahn train overcrowded with 1726 Jews from Grunewald to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

Irma Brauer, née Sloane, had the pictured gravestone erected on the grave of her brother Alfred at the Jewish Cemetery Weißensee in memory of him and her parents Wanda and Willi Brauer after World War II.