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Therese Wilda * 1870

Bullenhuser Damm 94 (Schule) (Hamburg-Mitte, Rothenburgsort)

HIER LEHRTE
THERESE WILDA
JG. 1870
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET 27.1.1943

Therese Wilda, born on 20 Nov. 1870 in Hamburg, deported to Theresienstadt on 15 July 1942, died there on 7 Jan. 1943

Janusz Korczak School at Bullenhuser Damm 94

Therese Wilda taught at the boys’ school at Bullenhuser Damm 94 until her early retirement in 1932 due to an eye condition. She came from a Jewish middle-class family with several children who, as far as is known, were born between 1859 and 1872. Her father, Wilhelm Wilda, was a painter, Therese’s eldest sister Elise worked as an elementary school teacher ("Volksschullehrerin”).

Her brother Hermann, born on 4 Feb. 1862, taught shipbuilding as a professor at the State Technical College (Staatliches Technikum) in Bremen, two brothers and one sister went into the commercial field. While Elise Wilda attended the teacher training college in Hannover, Therese Wilda received her training at the teacher training college in Münster. Shortly before her twenty-first birthday, she began teaching on 1 Oct. 1892, apparently at a private school, and entered the Hamburg elementary school service on 1 Oct. 1896.

On 1 Oct. 1903, she was hired on a permanent basis, which also meant that she was entitled to a pension. It was not possible to determine when she began teaching at the school at Bullenhuser Damm 94, which opened in 1910. Like her sister Elise, she belonged to School District 4, Billwärder Ausschlag, where several new elementary schools were built within a short period around the turn of the century, as the population grew rapidly. Elise taught at the girls’ school at Vierländerstrasse 79, which opened in 1888.

Therese lived with three siblings at Meridianstrasse 13 in Hamburg-Hamm, which had good transport connections. At the beginning of the 1940s, the four moved to Eppendorf, from where they were deported together to the Theresienstadt Ghetto on 15 July 1942. Therese Wilda died there on 27 Jan. 1943. Half a year later, the Hamm apartment and the former schools of the sisters were largely destroyed in the "firestorm” caused by Allied bombing (see Stolpersteine in Hamburg-Eppendorf and Hamburg-Hamm).


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

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