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Käthchen Scherer * 1892
Grevenweg /Ecke Sorbenstraße (Gewerbeschule) (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)
1941 Minsk
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Käthchen Scherer, born 15 June 1892, deported 18 Nov. 1941 to Minsk
Corner of Sorbenstraße and Grevenweg (Grevenweg 76)
Käthchen Scherer grew up as the second-youngest of 13 siblings, two of whom died in infancy. Her father Heinrich Scherer, born in Fürth in 1839, went to Hamburg where he built up a successful wholesale paper business. He married Bertha Hirsch, born on 5 Jan. 1851 in Hildesheim.
Their eldest child, Leopold, was born in 1876, their youngest, Edith, in 1894. Father Scherer died on 1 Dec. 1915, Mother Bertha on 20 Oct. 1918 from the Spanish flu; both were buried at the Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetery.
Her "big sister" Elsa took on the role of mother for the three youngest siblings, Ida, Käthchen and Edith. Like most of the Scherer siblings, she chose a non-Jewish spouse. After 1935 she liked to say, "I am neither Jewish nor Christian – I am from Hamburg.” Käthchen, like her siblings Leopold, Walter, Ida and Edith remained faithful to the Jewish Community.
Their father Heinrich Scherer had his daughter, like his sons, complete commercial training, and she worked until her wedding. Even during difficult economic times, they continued living in upper-class style. Hence it is inexplicable why Käthchen earned her living as a seamstress and later as a maid. Käthchen Scherer apparently married shortly before her deportation.
Her home address changed several times. In 1928 she lived with the carpenter Voß at Grevenweg 76 as a tenant. After 1933 she had a minimal income, and from mid 1939 she had no taxable income whatsoever.
Mid July 1940 she moved to the Marcus Nordheim-Stift in Neustadt at Schlachterstraße 40/42 where she worked as a domestic worker and witnessed her sister Edith, married to the widower Julius Rosenberg since 1938, be deported to Lodz Ghetto on 25 Oct. 1941. Ultimately she moved inot a sublet at Friedenseiche 1 in Altona where the NSDAP and NSV had offices on the ground floor. It was there that she received her deportation orders to Minsk Ghetto on 18 Nov. 1941. Her sister-in-law Erna, née Salomon born on 18 Sept. 1885 in Berlin, was assigned to the same transport.
Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: January 2019
© Hildegard Thevs
Quellen: 1; 4; 5; StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, o. Sign. Mitgliederzählung der DIGH 1928; 390 Wählerverzeichnis 1930; 391 Mitgliederliste 1935; 992 e 2 Deportationsliste Bd. 1 u. 3; BA Bln., Volkszählung 1939; HA 1941; persönliche Mitteilungen von Angehörigen; Jüdische Stätten in Hamburg. Hrsg. Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden und der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung. Hamburg 1995, Nr. 29.
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