Käte Saenger - Schwicheldtstraße 19 A

Käte Saenger was born in Stettin on December 22, 1913. Before she came to Celle, she lived in Einbeck. Her profession was shorthand typist and she worked in the office of the lawyer Dr. Julius von der Wall (Stolperstein Mühlenstraße 25) at Schwicheldtstraße 19 A from October 1, 1937. Like her employer, she was of Jewish faith, and this was probably also the reason for her employment in Celle, as Jewish employers were prohibited by law from employing non-Jewish staff. Von der Wall once ran a large law firm with his partner Manfred Herzfeld at Mühlenstra<e 25. Although both were not banned from practicing their profession due to exemptions, their activities were restricted to such an extent that the house in Mühlenstraße had to be sold and the law firm relocated to Herzfeld's home in Schwicheldtstraße. Herzfeld had already left Germany in 1935 and the von der Wall couple emigrated in the summer of 1938, so that Käte Saenger had only worked in the office for a good six months. During the pogrom on November 9/10, 1938, the office was destroyed by SA men.
Käte Saenger returned to Stettin on February 4, 1939. Like all Jews living there, she was deported from there to the Piaski ghetto on the night of February 11-12, 1940. She is considered "missing".