Antonie was Ludwig Reichenbach and Pauline Asch’s daughter, Paula Wollenberg’s and Kurt Reichenbach’s sister, and Hugo Weiss’s wife. She was deported on the same April 1942 train to Warsaw.
Antonie Reichenbach was born in Halberstadt on 6 April 1879. Birth act no. 312 names her as the daughter of the merchant Ludwig Reichenbach and Pauline née Asch at Hoheweg 24 and records the household as mosaisch. Her sister Paula’s 1877 act writes their mother’s name as Lina; the matching father, address and household show the register’s variation between Lina and Pauline.
Antonie married Hugo Weiss, who was born on 15 March 1875 and was last noted in Poland in November 1938.
Mapping the Lives places Antonie at Richard-Wagner-Straße 55 with Kurt. That shared address supports the connection, but the 1945 tracing card is the record that explicitly names them as siblings.
Antonie was deported on the 14 April 1942 Magdeburg–Warsaw transport, the same train that carried Kurt, Paula and Hans. The Federal Archives memorial book records the transport under de988851.
A later notation places Antonie in Poland in July 1942. No surviving record now establishes what happened to her after Warsaw.
Family and household
People connected to this life
- Paula Wollenberg née Reichenbach · sister · named on the 1945 tracing card
- Kurt Reichenbach · brother · named on the 1945 tracing card
- Hugo Weiss · husband
- Kaethe Lohbauer · applicant who filed the tracing card from São Paulo
- Ludwig Reichenbach · father · named in Antonie’s 1879 birth act
- Lina Reichenbach née Asch · mother · named as Pauline in Antonie’s 1879 birth act
Sources
Records and testimony
- Halberstadt civil birth act no. 343 for Paula Reichenbach, 18 April 1877 (FamilySearch)
- Halberstadt civil birth act no. 312 for Antonie Reichenbach, 6 April 1879 (FamilySearch)
- Halberstadt civil birth act no. 535 for Curt Reichenbach, 26 May 1889 (FamilySearch)
- National Refugee Service tracing card filed by Kaethe Lohbauer, São Paulo, 4 May 1945, Arolsen Archives DocID 131596011
- Mapping the Lives address record
- 14 April 1942 Magdeburg–Warsaw transport list
- Bundesarchiv Gedenkbuch de988851
What remains uncertain
Antonie’s 1879 birth act establishes Ludwig Reichenbach and Pauline née Asch as her parents. Paula’s 1877 and Kurt’s 1889 birth acts name the same parents, with their mother written as Lina in 1877, and confirm the sibling relationship recorded on the separate 1945 tracing card. Her last notation is Poland in July 1942; no later endpoint is documented.