Selma Jungmann née Sobotker

Location 
Bochumer Straße 15
Historical name
Bochumer Straße 15
District
Moabit
Stone was laid
12 June 2023
Born
27 October 1891 in Hohensalza (Provinz Posen) / Inowrocław
Escape
1939 Shanghai
Survived

Selma Sobotker was born on 27 October 1891 in Hohensalza (now Inowroclaw) in what was then the province of Posen. Not much is known about her life.
She was married to Oskar Jungmann, who ran a cigar shop in Berlin. Daughter Gerda was born in 1913, son Hans in 1916. The family lived at Bochumer Straße 15 in Berlin-Moabit.
Hans Jungmann fled to Shanghai via Italy in 1938. His parents followed a year later.
After the war, Selma and Oskar Jungmann moved from Shanghai to Haifa, Israel where she lived the rest of her life. Selma died on February 27, 1975 at the age of 83.