Frieda Rebhun née Josephy

Location 
Poschinger Str. 14
District
Steglitz
Stone was laid
07 July 2008
Born
17 February 1891 in Parchim (Mecklenburg)
Deportation
on 26 September 1942 to Raasiku (b. Reval)
Murdered
in Raasiku (b. Reval)
Frieda Rebhun, née Josephy, was married to a tradesman, Leopold Rebhun, born on 20 June 1885 in Berlin, died on 1 June 1940 in Wittenau psychiatric clinic. There are indicators, but as yet no concrete proof, that Leopold Rebhun was a victim of euthanasia. He was buried on 6 June 1940 in the Jewish cemetery in Weissensee (field P, section VII, row 4, burial no. 103351).
In 1918 Frieda Rebhun gave birth to twins, Heinz and Kurt. Both migrated to Palestine in 1936 and joined the Jewish Brigade. Kurt died in action in 1948; Heinz was shot by an Arab in Haifa in the same year.

Frieda Rebhun had one brother, Artur Josephy, born on 21 January 1898, who managed to escape to Chile. He tried to support his sister financially from overseas, which the “Asset Reclamation Office” took as grounds for “speeding up the process of asset seizure”. A corresponding ordinance was passed to legitimize this plundering.
From 1941 Frieda Rebhun worked for a lawyer, Bernhard Blau (Eichen Allee 66 in Berlin-Charlottenburg), who was only permitted to call himself a “legal consultant” because of his Jewish background. Now a widow, Frieda Rebhun lived at Poschinger Strasse 14 in Steglitz, where another couple, the Gotthilffs, had also been forced to live. In her declaration of assets, Frieda Rebhun stated that Poschinger Strasse 14 “is classed as a Jewish house”. Frieda Rebhun was deported in September 1942, at the age of 51, to the Raasiku extermination site near Reval. There are no more traces of her.