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Thekla Rosner * 1874

Ferdinandstraße 28–30 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg-Altstadt)

HIER WOHNTE
THEKLA ROSNER
JG. 1874
DEPORTIERT 1943
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET 27.5.1944

Thekla Rosner, born 3 July 1874 in Hamburg, deported 24 Feb. 1943 to Theresienstadt where she died 27 May 1944

Ferdinandstraße 28–30

Thekla Rosner was born in her parents’ home at Alten Steinweg 47 on 3 July 1874 where her father earned a living as an "advertising agent”. Samuel Rosner came from Hungary. When he was born on 10 Feb. 1836 in Óbuda (German: Alt-Ofen), the city was still independent. It was later incorporated into the town Buda which united with Pest in 1873 to form the newly founded capitol Budapest. Thekla’s mother Gelle Auguste, née Behrens, came from Hamburg where she was born on 1 June 1833.

From 1891 to 1905 Samuel Rosner worked for the publisher of the International Hotel Magazine in Hamburg. At that time the family lived at Wexstraße 17. In 1906 they moved to Fuhlentwiete 39. On 6 June 1916 Thekla’s mother passed away at Israelite Hospital. After moving to an apartment at Gerhofstraße 16, her father also passed away on 9 Apr. 1917, at the age of 81.

By her own accounts, Thekla Rosner was a typist. She ran the "Gerhof Typing Room” on Gerhofstraße. Most likely she too, like nearly all Jewish business people, was forced to give up her self-employed work in 1938. How she later earned a living is not known. As early as 1933/34 Thekla Rosner was exempt from paying the religious tax that she normally would have had to pay as a member of Hamburg’s Jewish community, due to her low income.

From 1940 Thekla Rosner was listed in the Hamburg telephone book as living at Ferdinandstraße 28/30. At that address she had a room with a separate entrance in the apartment of the Jewish couple Selma and Max Gottlieb (see Susanne Herz). Thekla Rosner received her deportation orders for 24 Feb. 1943 at the "Jewish house” located at Beneckestraße 2. She was deported along with about 54 other people to the "old-age ghetto” Theresienstadt where she died on 27 May 1944.

Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: April 2020
© Susanne Rosendahl

Quellen: 1; 7; StaH 332-5 Standesämter 749 u 518/1916; StaH 332-5 Standesämter 767 u 395/1917; StaH 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinde Nr. 992 e 2 Band 5; Hamburger Adressbücher und Hamburger Telefonbücher; http://www2.holocaust.cz/de/victims/PERSON.ITI.600471 (Zugriff 7.8.2015); https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/III._Budapester_Bezirk (Zugriff 7.8.2015)
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