Sophie Bendix

Selma Sophie Meerfeld,born on May 20,1867 in Bielefeld married on May 12,1889 in Bielefeld Julius Bendix, born on December 18, 1859 in Werne. Selma Sophie's parents were the Bielefeld merchant Lewy Meerfeld and his wife Johanna Meerfeld, née Rothenberg. Julius Bendix was a factory owner. The couple had four children -  Hans, born February 08, 1890 in Bielefeld, -  Margarete, born June 06, 1891 in Bielefeld, - Anna, born June 13, 1895 in Bielefeld, -  Ernst, born October 08, 1896 in Bielefeld. At the beginning of April 1909 the family moved to Munich. From October 20, 1909 they lived in Munich at Elisabethstraße 9/II. The daughter Margarete married the engineer Alexander Sander in 1913. On Jan. 19, 1942, the couple was deported from Berlin and has since been considered "missing." Son Hans died in Munich in 1914. Daughter Anna, an opera singer, had not lived with her parents since 1923. In 1933 she stayed in Davos, Switzerland. On January 11, 1925 Julius Bendix died in Konstanz a. Bodensee.  Further stations in the life of Selma Sophie Bendix - the move to Elisabethstraße 20/II (since 04.07.1927), the move to Tengstraße 31/I - Pension Isabella (since 16.12.1941), then the move to Mathildenstraße 8 -  Lipschütz'sche Versorgungsanstalt, Altenheim, Mathildenstraße 8/9 (since 16.12.1941) and in April 1942 the forced transfer to the barracks camp Knorrstraße 148 in Milbertshofen.The impending deportation drove Selma Sophie Bendix to suicide on  June 30, 1942. Son Ernst Bendix was deported from Hamburg to Theresienstadt on July 19, 1942, and from there to Auschwitz in 1944, where he was murdered.