Johanna Rudermann née Elend

Johanna Rudermann, née Elend, was born on January 25, 1875 in Kobylin, Posen, her parents were the cap maker Abraham Elend and Röschen Elend née Wildegans. She had another older brother, Gustav Elend, who was born on June 30, 1872, and died in exile in Shanghai on March 22, 1944, while fleeing. Her younger sister Adeline was born on December 23, 1875, and was deported with her husband Hermann Peritz (born December 25, 1874) from Lippehner Strasse 6 on January 13, 1943, first to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz on May 16, 1944, where she was murdered. Johanna had been married to Schaje Rudermann (later Oswald, born December 3, 1869 in Drohobytsch, Galicia) since October 8, 1897, widowed since 1931, was a merchant for tailoring accessories by profession, and lived with her children at Chodowieckistraße 10. With her daughters Cäcilie and Hilda Peritz she was sent to Barnimstraße 12 before deportation and was deported together with both of them on November 1, 1941 with the 4th transport to the Litzmannstadt ghetto and on May 9, 1942 to the Kulmhof extermination camp where they were murdered. Their daughter Charlotte (born February 26, 1900, widowed Matzner) was deported from Alte Schönhauser Straße 3 to Auschwitz on March 12, 1943 and murdered. Only their daughter Lydia (also Gittel or Evelyn, born December 16, 1911) survived through a mixed marriage with Karl Vorpahl (born August 16, 1911), whom she had already married on September 9, 1933, and their son Norbert (born July 14, 1934) and daughter Monika (born 1942) at 10 Chodowieckistrasse.