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Edith Krüger (née Littmann) * 1895
Lohhof 11 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)
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Flucht in den Tod 22.02.1945
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Edith Krüger, née Littmann, born 24 Dec. 1895, date of death 22 Feb. 1945, Hamburg
"The worst thing about this time was how it started with the Jews and how my grandparents were taken away. We knew that they would be sent to some kind of a camp, but we didn’t know what they did there. My mother never left the house for fear that something could happen to her. She was isolated in the house.”
Lotti Krüger was 15 years old and had just been confirmed when her grandparents, Mayer and Minna Littmann, were deported to Theresienstadt on 15 July 1942. 50 years later at the Hamm City Archives she talked about this event and the loss of her parents:
"My father died of natural causes on 20 December 1943. He was an "Aryan.” Until his death my mother was protected by the marriage. Afterwards, my mother was frightened of being deported. She finally took her own life, shortly before the end of the war, in February 1945.”
Edith Krüger, née Littmann, was born on 24 December 1895 in Altona. Her parents Mayer Littmann (*24 December 1870 in Brody) and Minna Harrison (*24 April 1869 in Hamburg) were both stateless. They were members of the Jewish Community. Edith was the eldest of three sisters. Until she married, she worked as an office clerk. She never joined the Jewish Community.
She and her husband Karl Krüger had two daughters, Lotti (*8 November 1926) and Inge (*20 October 1931). Edith had a son, Werner Max, from a previous relationship, who took the name Krüger when his mother married. Max Krüger was considered to be a Jew and was sent to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp in May 1941. He was murdered there in June 1942.
After her parents were deported and the death of her son and husband, Edith moved in with relatives at Ohlstedter Platz 24. According to her daughter, she was reclusive and terrified of being deported. On 22 February 1945 she took an overdose of sleeping pills. She died later in the Barmbek Hospital. At the time Inge was 13 and Lotti 18. Their mother had requested that her sister-in-law take in the girls. Both survived the war.
Translator: Amy Lee
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: October 2016
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Quellen: 1; 4; 5; StaH 331-5 Polizeibehörde – Unnatürliche Todesfälle 1945/240; BA Bln., Volkszählung 1939; AfW 241270; Stadtteilarchiv Hamm, Bericht Lotti Coenen; HA 1933 und 1938.
