Location
Nollendorfstr. 19
District
Schöneberg
Stone was laid
21 March 2011
Born
29 March 1923 in Leipzig
Escape
nach Belgien
Verhaftet
in
Mechelen (Belgien)
Deportation
on 04 April 1944
to
Auschwitz
Murdered
02 October 1944 in Auschwitz
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Stolperstein für Eva Rita Berger. Foto: OTFW.
Eva Rita Berger was born on 29 March 1923 in Leipzig. Her parents were Leon Berger (born 1 June 1980 in Leipzig), a tradesman, and his wife Paula (known as Perl), née Schiffmann (born 28 January 1895), who came from Lopianka, some 70 km northeast of Warsaw. Eva had an older sister, Etta, born on 18 December 1919 in Dresden.
By 1926 the family had moved to Berlin, where they initially lived in the Charlottenburg district, moving to an apartment at Nollendorf Straße 19 in Schöneberg some time around 1932. Leon Berger ran a furnishing textiles business, selling furniture coverings and wall hangings.
In October 1929 Eva Berger started school at Volksschule Wilhelmstraße (district unknown). Later she attended a Zionist-oriented private school at Klopstock Straße 58 in Tiergarten. Founded in 1920 by the Jewish Schools Association, the school boomed in popularity after 1933 as ever more children with Jewish backgrounds left state schools to avoid the increasing harassment. The premises at Klopstock Straße soon became too small and, in early 1934, the Theodor Herzl School, as it was now called, moved to new premises at Kaiserdamm 78. In the night of progroms, 9 - 10 November 1938, the school was so badly vandalized that no regular schooling took place afterwards. The school was officially closed on 31 March 1939.
Around 1935, the Berger family moved to the district of Friedrichshain. They are listed as living at Barnim Straße 22 in the Berlin directories up to 1939. They probably fled Berlin, then, in the early months of 1939. Their destination was Belgium. Nothing is known of the circumstances in which Eva Berger, her sister Etta and their parents lived after Belgium’s occupation by the German Army.
Records only show that all four members of the Berger family were detained in the Belgian SS assembly camp Mechelen (French: Malines), which had been set up in a barracks in June 1942, and that they were deported on 4 April 1944 with the 24th transport to Auschwitz.
In Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Eva Berger was given the prisoner number 76606, as a list of laboratory examinations, dated 28 September 1944 and issued by a camp doctor, shows. She was murdered in Auschwitz on 2 October 1944, aged 21. Her parents were also killed there. Her sister Etta managed to survive the remaining months until the camp’s liberation on 27 January 1945.
By 1926 the family had moved to Berlin, where they initially lived in the Charlottenburg district, moving to an apartment at Nollendorf Straße 19 in Schöneberg some time around 1932. Leon Berger ran a furnishing textiles business, selling furniture coverings and wall hangings.
In October 1929 Eva Berger started school at Volksschule Wilhelmstraße (district unknown). Later she attended a Zionist-oriented private school at Klopstock Straße 58 in Tiergarten. Founded in 1920 by the Jewish Schools Association, the school boomed in popularity after 1933 as ever more children with Jewish backgrounds left state schools to avoid the increasing harassment. The premises at Klopstock Straße soon became too small and, in early 1934, the Theodor Herzl School, as it was now called, moved to new premises at Kaiserdamm 78. In the night of progroms, 9 - 10 November 1938, the school was so badly vandalized that no regular schooling took place afterwards. The school was officially closed on 31 March 1939.
Around 1935, the Berger family moved to the district of Friedrichshain. They are listed as living at Barnim Straße 22 in the Berlin directories up to 1939. They probably fled Berlin, then, in the early months of 1939. Their destination was Belgium. Nothing is known of the circumstances in which Eva Berger, her sister Etta and their parents lived after Belgium’s occupation by the German Army.
Records only show that all four members of the Berger family were detained in the Belgian SS assembly camp Mechelen (French: Malines), which had been set up in a barracks in June 1942, and that they were deported on 4 April 1944 with the 24th transport to Auschwitz.
In Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Eva Berger was given the prisoner number 76606, as a list of laboratory examinations, dated 28 September 1944 and issued by a camp doctor, shows. She was murdered in Auschwitz on 2 October 1944, aged 21. Her parents were also killed there. Her sister Etta managed to survive the remaining months until the camp’s liberation on 27 January 1945.