Margarete Lövy née Rosenthal

Location 
Forststraße 31
District
Zehlendorf
Stone was laid
12 June 2012
Born
12 January 1891 in Jankendorf (Ostpreußen) / Jankowo
Escape
1938 Flucht in die Niederlande
Verhaftet
in Lager Westerbork
Deportation
1943 to Auschwitz
Murdered
23 September 1943 in Auschwitz

Margarete Johanna Rosenthal was born on January 12, 1891 in Jankendorf/East Prussia as the daughter of Isidor Rosenthal and his wife Paula.
She married Georg Jakob Lövy, who was then director of Oderberger Chemical Works AG in Neu-Oderberg, Silesia, now Bogumin, Czech Republic.
The son Ernst Georg was born on July 24, 1918, followed later by another son.
From 1922 the family lived in their own house in Zehlendorf, Forststrasse 31.
Both sons were able to emigrate, Margarete and Georg Lövy fled to Holland in March 1939, they lived in Rotterdam from 1939 to 1941 and then in Gouda.
They were arrested and remained in the Westerbork assembly camp from 1941 to 1942.
On September 14, 1943, they were deported together to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Margarete Lövy was murdered on December 12, 1943, and her husband died on December 17, 1943.