Jette Cahn

Jette Cahn, the daughter of the merchant and cord merchant Gustav Cahn and his wife Mina, née Bayer, born in Bayreuth in 1874, had four more siblings - Ludwig (1873), Ernst (1875), Heinrich (1878) and Rosa (1883). Jette Cahn remained single throughout her life. She lived in the house owned by her brother at Richard-Wagner-Strasse 7, where Heinrich Cahn ran a wholesale and retail business in haberdashery, white goods and manufactured goods. Jette Cahn lived on the 1st floor above the business premises. Above her on the 2nd floor was her brother Heinrich. The pensioner Jette Cahn was deported together with her sister Mathilde and her daughter Charlotte on 27.11.1941 from Bayreuth via Nuremberg to Riga-Jungfernhof. From there they were taken to the forest of Bikernieki on March 26, 1942 and shot together with 1600 to 1700 other people. Heinrich Cahn committed suicide already on January 18, 1939. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Bayreuth. A memorial inscription on his gravestone commemorates the fate of his wife Mathilde and daughter Charlotte. The fate of Jette Cahn is commemorated by a memorial inscription on the gravestone of her parents Gustav and Mina Cahn.