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Charlotte Rosenfeld * 1905

Papenhuder Straße 40 (Hamburg-Nord, Uhlenhorst)

1941 Riga
HIER WOHNTE
CHARLOTTE
ROSENFELD
JG. 1905
DEPORTIERT 1941
RIGA
???

(deportiert aus Stuttgart)

Charlotte Rosenfeld, born on 10 Sept. 1905, deported on 1 Dec. 1941 from Stuttgart to Riga and murdered there

Papenhuder Strasse 40

Charlotte Rosenfeld was born as one of three daughters of the Jewish couple Benjamin and Theresia Rosenfeld, née Meyer, in Stuttgart. Her father, Benjamin Rosenfeld, owned the B. Rosenfeld Company, machine oils and steel wool factory. The family lived in Stuttgart, in a six-room apartment at Militärstrasse 35 (today Breitscheidstrasse 35) on the third floor, with the company premises located in the back part of the house. Since 1898, the building itself also belonged to Benjamin Rosenfeld.

A trained office worker, Charlotte Rosenfeld moved to Hamburg in the early 1930s to work as a social security official. She found accommodation at Papenhuder Strasse 40. Due to the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” ("Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums”) dated 7 Apr. 1933, Charlotte lost her job, returning to Stuttgart on 1 June 1933 and moving back into her parents’ apartment.

In Aug. 1937, Charlotte’s father Benjamin Rosenfeld died and his property passed over to the family. Two years later, the German Reich seized the house of the Rosenfeld family and the company was "Aryanized.” However, for the time being the remaining family members were able to continue residing on Militärstrasse.

In 1941, Theresia’s sister, Charlotte Behr, moved in with them. She was divorced and had previously resided in an apartment of her own on the sixth floor of the house. Charlotte Rosenfeld was deported from Stuttgart to the Riga Ghetto on 1 Dec. 1941 and has been considered missing ever since. She was 36 years old at the time, unmarried, and had no children.

Charlotte’s two sisters and their fates are unknown. The mother, Theresia Rosenfeld, and her sister Charlotte Behr were forced in 1942 to move to the Jewish retirement home in Dellmensingen. Theresia was allowed to take along only two suitcases and one carpet. On 22 Aug. 1942, the sisters were deported to Theresienstadt and from there onward to Treblinka.

In front of the building at Breitscheidstrasse 35 in Stuttgart, formerly Militärstrasse 35, three Stolpersteine are located in memory of Charlotte Behr, Theresia Rosenfeld, and her daughter Charlotte Rosenfeld.


Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2018
© Carmen Smiatacz

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 8; ITS/ARCH/Transportlisten Gestapo, Baden-Württemberg/11201363#1 (1.2.1.1/0001-0060/0026C/0221); Israelitische Kulturvereinigung in Württemberg und Hohenzollern (Hg.): Deportiertenliste der von 1939 bis 1945 zwangsweise in KZ’s, Arbeitslager usw. verbrachten Juden aus Württemberg und Hohenzollern; Zelzer: Weg und Schicksal der Stuttgarter Juden S. 359; Stolpersteine in Stuttgart: http://www.stolpersteine-stuttgart.de/index.php?docid=196, Zugriff am 11.6.2009.
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