Department store for household and kitchen appliances Max Steinhart, owner Ida Fränkel, née Steinhart

Ida Fränkel was born on December 9, 1887 in Tachov (German: Tachau) in the western Bohemian region of Pilsen. She was born and widowed Steinhart. Ida's first husband Max Steinhart had died in 1925 and she had two children from this marriage, Alfred and Herta Steinhart. Ida Fränkel was the owner of the Max Steinhart department store for household and kitchen appliances at Louisenstrasse 39, on the corner of Alaunstrasse. She also worked there.

Her second husband Joseph Fränkel was a textile merchant and ran a white goods store in the east of Dresden, in Laubegast at Leubener Straße 2. The Fränkel couple last lived at Melanchtonstraße 25. In 1940, both were forcibly relocated to the ‚Judenhaus‘ at Hähnelstraße 1. From there, Ida Fränkel was taken to the Hellerberg Jewish camp on November 23/24, 1942, together with her husband Joseph and other relatives, where she performed forced labour.

On 2. On March 2, 1943, Ida Fränkel was crammed into freight cars with her husband and more than 300 other people and taken to Auschwitz Birkenau, where she was presumably murdered immediately upon arrival on March 3, 1943.