Rosette Dörnbrack, née Blumann

Rosette Dörnbrack, née Blumann - * 01.06.1883 in Tostedt, † 07.05.1966 in Rotenburg/Wümme

Rosette Dörnbrack was the älte daughter of Carl Blumann, a respected Tostedt citizen, and Henriette Goldmann. Rosette married the Protestant agricultural machinery dealer Wilhelm Friedrich Dörnbrack.
Why Rosette was able to lead a relatively undisturbed life during the Nazi era is unclear today. A certain degree of protection may have existed in the so-called „mixed marriage“ with her „German-blooded“ husband. She escaped arrest for a long time. Rosette Dörnbrack was to be deported on February 23, 1945. The Tostedt doctor Dr. Pieper wrote her down as unfit for transport, presumably saving her life. Rosette Dörnbrack died in Rotenburg/Wümme in 1966.
The children of Rosette and Wilhelm Dörnbrack also suffered under the Nazi regime. Their daughter Erika emigrated to England at the end of the 1930s and was able to escape the Holocaust. Their son Karl-Günther had to abandon his medical studies under pressure from the regime and fled to Sweden in 1942; he returned to Germany after the end of the war. The youngest son Heinz was denied his Abitur and studies because of his Jewish mother; in 1943 he was ordered to report to Neuengamme concentration camp, but evaded it by fleeing and going into hiding and thus also survived the Shoah.