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Her initial stayed above the shop windows.

Jeanette Reichenbach née Rosenbaum

26 October 1859 — 25 October 1942

The stone records Jeanette Reichenbach’s deportation to Theresienstadt and her death there on 25 October 1942. The stone lies outside the Wernigerode house where Jeanette kept the shop. It names her deportation and death, but it does not preserve the half-room and rent recorded in her Berlin papers.Open source record RB-EXT-CC-0003

Jeanette kept the clothing shop at Breite Straße 7, sat at its till into the 1930s and remained its owner. The large J. Reichenbach sign carried her initial.

Also in Where the record stops · Theresienstadt

She kept the Wernigerode shop, and her named record ends at Theresienstadt.WernigerodeWhere the record stopsFritz

Jeanette Rosenbaum was born at Ebergötzen on 26 October 1859. She married Salomon Gustav Reichenbach in Göttingen in 1883 and built the Wernigerode household around their only son, Fritz. Her dowry helped establish the shop at Breite Straße 7.

Jeanette owned J. Reichenbach while Gustav managed it. Regional records remember her sitting at the till into the 1930s, beneath a façade-wide sign bearing her initial. Fritz later took on the business, and Werner grew up above the shop.

By 15 November 1941 Jeanette was a subtenant in Max Israel Harrwitz’s house at Normannenstraße 2 in Berlin. Her asset declaration records half a room for 22.50 RM a month and notes that her grandson was already in Brazil with his wife and child. The Gestapo issued its confiscation order on 1 September 1942.

She was deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on Transport I/64 on 11 September 1942 and died six weeks later. The ghetto death notice records “enteritis acuta”; such entries must be read within the conditions of starvation, dehydration and untreated illness imposed there.

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Sources

Sources

  • Wernigerode address books
  • Stadtarchiv Göttingen marriage record C 39 Nr. 164
  • Peter Lehmann, Harz-Forschungen XXXVI (2023)
  • Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv, Rep. 36A (II) 30786
  • Bundesarchiv Gedenkbuch en1138499
  • Holocaust.cz victim record 28233 and Transport I/64
  • Theresienstadt death notice
  • Berlin Stolpersteine biography for Normannenstraße 2
  • Wernigerode Stolperstein
Reichenbach Family Archive — Jeanette’s asset declaration Bundesarchiv Gedenkbuch — Jeanette Reichenbach Holocaust.cz — Jeanette Reichenbach and Transport I/64 Stolpersteine in Berlin — Normannenstraße 2

What remains uncertain

The records document Jeanette’s room, confiscation order, transport and death. They do not preserve her own account of the months at Normannenstraße 2.

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