Charlotte Rosa Heymann

Location 
Hektorstr. 3
District
Wilmersdorf
Stone was laid
07 June 2017
Born
09 November 1904 in Breslau / Wrocław
Occupation
Medizintechnikerin
Deportation
on 29 January 1943 to Auschwitz
Murdered
in Auschwitz
Charlotte Rosa Heymann was born on the 09 November 1904 in Breslau, daughter of Prof. Med Bruno and Martha Heymann. She had two brothers, Dr. Med. Karl Gerhard Gideon Heymann (escaped to
Palestine/Israel in 1934) and Eng. Rudolf Eduard Heymann (escaped to Palestine/Israel in 1939).
Charlotte Rosa had graduated as Medical Technician in Berlin. Later she worked as a Kindergarten
Teacher and after her mother Martha died on the 4 June 1940 she also looked after her father,
Prof Med. Bruno Baruch Heymann, a Medicine Professor in Breslau and Berlin Universities.
Charlotte was not married and after her father died on the 9 May 1943 she rejected an opportunity
to escape to Switzerland because she decided to stay with the Kindergarten children and share
their fate of certain deportation. Before the deportation Charlotte was a forced labourer.
Immediately before the deportation she was forced to live in the collection point Berlin-Mitte,
Grosse-Hamburger Straße 26. Charlotte Heymann was deported to Auschwitz extermination camp
on the 29 January 1943 and arrived there on 30 January 1943. Her date of death is not known.