Johanna Schrangenheim

Johanna Schrangenheim lived in Stade from 1886. She converted from Judaism to Christianity.

Johanna Schragenheim worked as a seamstress in various households in Stade. She often helped the children with their schoolwork. She must have been a respected and respected person in the town. Nevertheless, after the National Socialists came to power, she experienced ostracism and discrimination and had to move house several times involuntarily.

On October 7, 1941, she moved into the house of the Jewish cattle dealer Fritz de Jonge. Several members of the small Stade Jewish community had already been accommodated in his house at Im Neuwerk 4 in 1939/40.

Only two months after moving in with the de Jonge family, Johanna Schragenheim had to leave the house again on November 19, 1941. She was given a room at the Behrens dairy and grocery store at Salzstraβe 16, which was her last place of residence in Stade.

On July 22, 1942, Johanna Schragenheim was arrested and deported. Her ordeal first took her to Bremen to the Jewish old people's home in Grüml;pelingen, and the next day she was deported to Theresienstadt via Hanover along with well over 100 other Jews.

Johanna Schragenheim survived in Theresienstadt for barely more than two months. She perished there on September 26, 1942.