Anna Hess, Martha Enoch, Elise Rheinhold - Bahnhofstraße 7

Anna Hess, Martha Enoch, Elise Rheinhold – Bahnhofstraße 7

Anna (born 27.5.1855), Martha (born 7.7.1856) and Elise (30.7.1865) were the daughters of the merchant and banker Philipp Daniel and his wife Elise, née Meyer. They had a brother, Eugen (born 22.10.1858).

The long-established Jewish Daniel family had lived in Celle since the end of the 17th century. Philipp Daniel ran a money, exchange and banking business. The family first lived in Z&oumlnerstr., then acquired the house at Bahnhofstr. 7. Philipp Daniel died in 1899, so his wife moved to Hanover. She died there in 1902. Both were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Celle, the gravestones are still preserved today.

Anna married Joseph Hess from Hamburg on 5 June 1883 at the Celle registry office and one day later in the Celle synagogue. They also lived there. Before her deportation to Theresienstadt, she was housed in the Hamburg "Judenhaus",  the former Jewish community center at Beneckestr. 6, from where she was deported to Theresienstadt in 1943 at the age of 88. She died there on September 28, 1943, presumably of starvation and exhaustion. Martha also married in Hamburg: she and Leopold Enoch were married on 19.08.1888. The only information that has survived about Martha Enoch is that she committed suicide on 30.01.1942

Elise married the merchant Otto Rheinhold on 07.02.1886. Their only child, their son Paul, was killed in the First World War. After Otto Rheinhold died in 1937, Elise went to Hanover. Here, in September 1941, she was forcibly relocated to the "Jews' House", Ohestraße 9. After the evacuation of the "Judenhaus", Elise was probably sent to the former Israelite Horticultural School Ahlem, which had been converted into a collection point. Like her eldest sister Anna, Elise was also deported to Theresienstadt. She died here after four weeks on 23.08.1942 at the age of 77.