Hertha Fackenheim (née Oppenheim)

Hertha Fackenheim was born in Kassel on April 1, 1896. She grew up as the daughter of the factory owner Hermann Oppenheim and his wife Rieka in Kassel.

In 1920 she married Alfred Fackenheim. And moved with him to Eisenach. There their daughter Erika was born in 1923.

When the living conditions for the Jewish population in Germany became increasingly difficult, the Fackenheims sent their daughter to Palestine. They wanted to follow her later, but the outbreak of the war prevented their emigration.

So Hertha and her husband Alfred were deported from Stuttgart to Theresienstadt on June 17, 1943, and later, on October 23, 1944, to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.  

(Text: Frank Rothe, edited by Natalie Reum, 14.4.2021)