Location
Goltzstr. 42
District
Schöneberg
Stone was laid
10 June 2010
Born
31 August 1913 in Halle/Saale
Occupation
Kontoristin und Verkäuferin
Verhaftet
11 January 1940
in
Ravensbrück
Deportation
1942
to
Bernburg a. d. Saale
Murdered
02 March 1942 in der Tötungsanstalt Bernburg
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Stolperstein für Anneliese Gersmann. Foto: OTFW.
Anneliese Gersmann was born on 31 August 1913 in Halle an der Saale. Her mother was Käthe Gersmann, née Maass (born on 25 October 1878 in Friedeberg/Strzelce Krajeńskie). Nothing more is known about her father than his surname, and that he, like his wife, hailed from a Jewish family. Anneliese had two elder sisters who were also born in Halle: Elsa (who took the name Müller after marrying), born 1902, and Cäcilie, born in 1906. Cäcilie immigrated to the Netherlands in 1933 and lived in Amsterdam from 1938. Nothing is known of her fate after that.
Anneliese Gersmann lived at Leipziger Strasse 55 in Halle until 1937/38. She worked as an office clerk and sales assistant, and remained single. In 1937 she became unemployed. Anneliese’s mother, Käthe Gersmann, lived in Halle until 1938, when she moved in with her eldest daughter Elsa Müller at Dahlmann Strasse 25 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. It is not known if Anneliese moved to Berlin at the same time as her mother or when she moved into her apartment at Goltz Strasse 42.
It is unclear why Anneliese Gersmann was arrested and interned in the women’s concentration camp Ravensbrück on 11 January 1940. Neither is it known if news of her mother’s “evacuation” to Kovno on 17 November 1941 reached her there. In spring 1942 Anneliese was sent from Ravensbrück to the Bernburg “sanatorium” near Magdeburg. Here, she was murdered on 2 March 1942, possibly during the euthanasia campaign known as Sonderbehandlung 14f13. Between 1941 and April 1943, some 5000 people who were no longer deemed fit to work were sent from various concentration camps to be killed in the gas chambers in Bernburg. The prisoners were taken to a garage in big grey buses. From here, a “nurse” took them in groups of 60-75 to be gassed in a cellar. Their bodies were either immediately cremated or handed over to the institute of anatomy.
Anneliese Gersmann lived at Leipziger Strasse 55 in Halle until 1937/38. She worked as an office clerk and sales assistant, and remained single. In 1937 she became unemployed. Anneliese’s mother, Käthe Gersmann, lived in Halle until 1938, when she moved in with her eldest daughter Elsa Müller at Dahlmann Strasse 25 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. It is not known if Anneliese moved to Berlin at the same time as her mother or when she moved into her apartment at Goltz Strasse 42.
It is unclear why Anneliese Gersmann was arrested and interned in the women’s concentration camp Ravensbrück on 11 January 1940. Neither is it known if news of her mother’s “evacuation” to Kovno on 17 November 1941 reached her there. In spring 1942 Anneliese was sent from Ravensbrück to the Bernburg “sanatorium” near Magdeburg. Here, she was murdered on 2 March 1942, possibly during the euthanasia campaign known as Sonderbehandlung 14f13. Between 1941 and April 1943, some 5000 people who were no longer deemed fit to work were sent from various concentration camps to be killed in the gas chambers in Bernburg. The prisoners were taken to a garage in big grey buses. From here, a “nurse” took them in groups of 60-75 to be gassed in a cellar. Their bodies were either immediately cremated or handed over to the institute of anatomy.