Location
Florastraße 61
District
Pankow
Stone was laid
20 August 2010
Born
13 May 1878 in Berlin
Deportation
on 29 November 1942
to
Auschwitz
Murdered
in Auschwitz
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Stolperstein für Anna Hirschberg - Foto: Stolpersteingruppe Pankow
Anna Hirschberg was born Anna Quadt on 13 May 1878 in Berlin. She married and had four children: three sons (Hans *1900, Heinz *1903, and Lothar *1905) and a daughter (Vera *1915). Her husband died in 1918, and she and her children moved into an apartment on the 3rd floor of the courtyard building at Flora Strasse 61. She lived here until her deportation in 1942.
According to information her daughter Vera gave the Berlin compensation office, not only she but also her brother Lothar survived the Holocaust. Lothar Hirschberg managed to immigrate to the United States. After the war he lived in Los Angeles and changed his first name to Ronald.
Vera Hirschberg married Franz Siegfried Grünthal in 1937. They were both sales assistants at a gentlemen’s outfitters. Forced to give up their jobs in 1938, they managed to immigrate to Argentina. Vera Grünthal received letters from her mother and her brother Heinz until late 1942, after which there were no more signs of life from them.
Anna Hirschberg’s oldest son, Hans Hirschberg, also lived in Berlin. Unfortunately, he is not listed in the Berlin directory. In February 1939 he was temporarily imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Later he apparently lived at Schönholzer Strasse 6a, a “Jew house”. In March 1942 Hans Hirschberg was deported to the Piaski ghetto. He was murdered on 25 July 1942 in Majdanek concentration camp. A plaque at Schönholzer Strasse 6a commemorates him and others who were deported from the building and murdered.
In her last years, Anna Hirschberg lived only with her son Heinz in the courtyard building at Flora Strasse 61. According to statements by her neighbours, Anna was taken away from her apartment in November 1942, a few days before Heinz. Anna Hirschberg was deported to Auschwitz on 29 November 1942, Heinz on 9 December 1942, and murdered.
According to information her daughter Vera gave the Berlin compensation office, not only she but also her brother Lothar survived the Holocaust. Lothar Hirschberg managed to immigrate to the United States. After the war he lived in Los Angeles and changed his first name to Ronald.
Vera Hirschberg married Franz Siegfried Grünthal in 1937. They were both sales assistants at a gentlemen’s outfitters. Forced to give up their jobs in 1938, they managed to immigrate to Argentina. Vera Grünthal received letters from her mother and her brother Heinz until late 1942, after which there were no more signs of life from them.
Anna Hirschberg’s oldest son, Hans Hirschberg, also lived in Berlin. Unfortunately, he is not listed in the Berlin directory. In February 1939 he was temporarily imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Later he apparently lived at Schönholzer Strasse 6a, a “Jew house”. In March 1942 Hans Hirschberg was deported to the Piaski ghetto. He was murdered on 25 July 1942 in Majdanek concentration camp. A plaque at Schönholzer Strasse 6a commemorates him and others who were deported from the building and murdered.
In her last years, Anna Hirschberg lived only with her son Heinz in the courtyard building at Flora Strasse 61. According to statements by her neighbours, Anna was taken away from her apartment in November 1942, a few days before Heinz. Anna Hirschberg was deported to Auschwitz on 29 November 1942, Heinz on 9 December 1942, and murdered.