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Emma Wilda * 1872
Meridianstraße 6 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)
1942 Theresienstadt
ermordet 21.03.1943
further stumbling stones in Meridianstraße 6:
Elise Wilda, Ernst Wilda, Therese Wilda
Elise Wilda, born on 22 Nov. 1859, deported to Theresienstadt on 15 July 1942, died there on 13 Feb. 1943
Emma Wilda, born on 16 Apr. 1872, deported to Theresienstadt on 15 July 1942, died there on 21 Mar. 1943
Ernst Wilda, born on 30 Apr. 1863, deported to Theresienstadt on 15 July 1942, died there on 6 Aug. 1942
Therese Wilda, born on 20 Nov. 1870, deported to Theresienstadt on 15 July 1942, died there on 27 Jan. 1943
"The need in which our community finds itself is so great that we are dependent on every sum assessed.” With this reason, Elise Wilda’s request for tax exemption was rejected by the Jewish Community in 1931. However, the Community accommodated her by means of a tax reduction and deferral, because she had to support two siblings who had lost their business and income: Ernst Wilda, born on 30 Apr. 1863, and Emma, born on 16 Apr. 1872. There were three other siblings, Prof. Hermann Wilda, born on 4 Feb. 1862 in Bremen, and Paul, who already emigrated to Brazil around 1933, and Therese, born on 20 Nov. 1870.
Their parents were the painter Wilhelm Wilda, born in 1816 in Hamburg, and Leonore Sophie Oppert, also born in Hamburg. They had married on 13 Dec. 1857.
When Ernst Wilda was registered in the Jewish Community in 1913, he worked as an independent sales representative, had his export agency at Grosser Burstah 16, and lived at Meridianstrasse 13. He was too old to fight in World War II. From 1918 to 1920, he worked in Berlin, where he was liable to pay communal taxes. After his return, he opened an export agency again, this time at Grosser Burstah 5, but he never really regained a foothold professionally.
It is not known what kind of work Emma did. Elise and Therese Wilda were elementary school teachers (Volksschullehrerinnen) at municipal schools, and in 1920, they both served in School District 4, Billwärder Ausschlag. Their siblings also lived on their salaries and pensions.
Elise Wilda, the oldest sibling, born on 22 Nov. 1859, was trained at the teacher training college in Hannover and she began teaching on 1 Apr. 1885. In 1894, she entered the Hamburg elementary school service and on 1 Oct. 1895, she was offered a permanent position with pension entitlement. In 1920, Elise Wilda taught at the girls’ school at Vierländerstrasse 79 and she belonged to the "Association of Hamburg Female Elementary School Teachers” ("Verein Hamburger Volksschullehrerinnen”). She retired on 1 Jan. 1925. Her pension was cut back by emergency decrees in the early 1930s.
Her sister, Therese Wilda, born on 20 Nov. 1870, received her training at the teacher training college in Münster. She began teaching on 1 Oct. 1892 and entered the Hamburg elementary school service on 1 Oct. 1896. On 1 Oct. 1903, she was hired on a permanent basis with pension entitlement. In 1920, Therese worked at the boys’ school at Bullenhuserdamm 94. In 1932, she went into early retirement because of an eye condition. This made the financial situation of the siblings even more difficult.
In 1940/41, they moved together to Lenhartzstrasse 3 and eventually to Frickestrasse 23. It is not known why the four brothers and sisters were taken into "protective custody” ("Schutzhaft”) in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp for one day each in Jan. and Feb. 1942.
On 15 July 1942, they were transported together to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Ernst Wilda was the first one of them to die there, Emma the last one. Therese died officially on 27 Jan. 1943 at 6.30 a.m. of a bladder disease, Elise died on 18 Nov. 1943 at 3.30 a.m. of "old age.”
Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: May 2019
© Hildegard Thevs
Quellen: 1; 3; 4; 5; 7; StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, o. Sign. Mitgliederzählung der DIGH 1928; 390 Wählerverzeichnis 1930; 391 Mitgliederliste 1935; 992 d Steuerakten Band 34; 922 e 2 Deportationslisten Bd. 4; BA Bln., Volkszählung 1939; Hamburger Lehrerverzeichnis, hrsg. von der Gesellschaft der Freunde des Vaterländischen Schul- und Erziehungswesens, Jg. 1920/21, S. 53, 58, 186, 251; Jg. 1927, S. 64; Jg. 1930, S. 122; Jg. 1933, S. 120.
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