Sara Horwitz, née Meyer

Sara Horwitz, née Meyer, was the third wife of the wealthy cattle dealer Gustav Horwitz (1861 - 1932).

Sara Horwitz was deported from Hamburg to the Theresienstadt/Terezin ghetto on 5 May 1943 on transport VI/6.

Sara Horwitz was a small woman. When she was able to leave the Theresienstadt ghetto after liberation in 1945, she was severely malnourished, suffering from softened bones and barely fit to live. After a year of care by the Jewish community in Hamburg, Sara Horwitz was able to return to her house in Winsen a. d. Luhe. She found it uninhabited and empty. Until 1949, she had to make do with a monthly pension of 49.50 marks from the Allied military authorities. In August 1949, the Committee for Special Aid of the District Town of Winsen for Persecutees of National Socialist Tyranny decided on her application for a pension increase. She was now granted 140 D-Mark per month. A further application for a care allowance, which had been approved by the medical officer, was rejected on the grounds that there was no physical helplessness as a result of the personal injury suffered in the camp. It is no longer possible to understand how medical and treatment costs could be paid. When Sara Horwitz died on March 25, 1956, her burial was the last at the Jewish cemetery in Winsen a. d. Luhe.