Location
Steinstr. 4
District
Steglitz
Stone was laid
07 March 2009
Born
15 February 1883 in Posen / Poznań
Occupation
Weißnäherin
Deportation
on 29 November 1942
to
Auschwitz
Murdered
in Auschwitz
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Stolperstein für Recha Marcus. Fotorechte: D. Janke.
Recha Marcus was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus, a Jewish couple who followed their children to Berlin from Poznań after the First World War. Recha’s parents lived in a house owned by their son Arnold, a pharmacist, in Skalitzer Straße in Kreuzberg. Later, Arnold Marcus bought the house at Steinstraße 4 in Steglitz.
This is where Recha Marcus lived, in the front room of a 4-room apartment, along with her brother’s parents-in-law, the Bendheims.
Recha Marcus was a seamstress by profession and saw to the family’s laundry. Relatives remembered her as “small built […], her skin was pale and she had a kind and friendly nature.”
In 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz together with Margarete Bendheim.
The records of the 1939 population census show that a person named Ruth Marcus, née Nessel (born in 1915), was also registered as resident in the apartment in Steinstraße. It is not known whom she married or how she was connected to the Marcus family.
This is where Recha Marcus lived, in the front room of a 4-room apartment, along with her brother’s parents-in-law, the Bendheims.
Recha Marcus was a seamstress by profession and saw to the family’s laundry. Relatives remembered her as “small built […], her skin was pale and she had a kind and friendly nature.”
In 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz together with Margarete Bendheim.
The records of the 1939 population census show that a person named Ruth Marcus, née Nessel (born in 1915), was also registered as resident in the apartment in Steinstraße. It is not known whom she married or how she was connected to the Marcus family.