Location
Hortensienstr. 9
District
Lichterfelde
Stone was laid
10 May 2011
Born
01 May 1892 in Mannheim
Occupation
Sekretärin
Deportation
on 19 January 1942
to
Riga
Murdered
in Riga
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Stolperstein für Leonore Heinemann. Foto: OTFW.
Leonore Heinemann was born in Mannheim, the daughter of a Jewish bank manager and his wife Charlotte, in 1892. As an adult, in 1938, Leonore was baptized in Christuskirche Protestant church in Heidelberg.
From 1913 to 1940, Heidelberg was Leonore’s home and the focal point of her life.
After training at a commercial school, she volunteered for the Red Cross in 1914, where she worked as a secretary until 1 May 1919. She was awarded the War Merit Cross by the grand duke of Baden in 1916.
From May 1919 to 1928 she worked as private assistant to biologist and educator Otto Schmeil in Heidelberg.
Leonore Heinemann stopped working after her mother’s death in 1928. She took an “Aryan” family in as lodgers and became a tutor to their two children. In 1939 the household was broken up and Leonore Heinemann briefly went to stay with Otto Schmeil. On 2 September 1940 she moved from Heidelberg to Berlin. This move was possibly intended to be the first step toward her migrating to the US. But her emigration plans failed.
From December 1941 Leonore Heinemann worked for Zeiss Ikon in Zehlendorf, probably as a forced labourer.
On 19 January 1942, Leonore Heinemann was deported, together with her landladies Gertrud and Klara Silbermann, from Hortensien Strasse in Berlin to Riga. It is not known whether she died on the journey or was killed after arriving in Riga.
From 1913 to 1940, Heidelberg was Leonore’s home and the focal point of her life.
After training at a commercial school, she volunteered for the Red Cross in 1914, where she worked as a secretary until 1 May 1919. She was awarded the War Merit Cross by the grand duke of Baden in 1916.
From May 1919 to 1928 she worked as private assistant to biologist and educator Otto Schmeil in Heidelberg.
Leonore Heinemann stopped working after her mother’s death in 1928. She took an “Aryan” family in as lodgers and became a tutor to their two children. In 1939 the household was broken up and Leonore Heinemann briefly went to stay with Otto Schmeil. On 2 September 1940 she moved from Heidelberg to Berlin. This move was possibly intended to be the first step toward her migrating to the US. But her emigration plans failed.
From December 1941 Leonore Heinemann worked for Zeiss Ikon in Zehlendorf, probably as a forced labourer.
On 19 January 1942, Leonore Heinemann was deported, together with her landladies Gertrud and Klara Silbermann, from Hortensien Strasse in Berlin to Riga. It is not known whether she died on the journey or was killed after arriving in Riga.