Bertha Wallach née Schönbeck

Bertha Wallach was born Bertha Schönbeck on 19 September 1880 in Weimar. Because of her Jewish faith, she was persecuted by the National Socialists.

On 17 May 1939, she was still living with her husband Ludwig Wallach at Cecilienallee 57, now Pacelliallee, her last voluntarily chosen address. On 30 April 1940, she and her husband Ludwig, who was born in Duisburg on 5 August 1867, moved to Luciusstraße 12 in Schmargendorf.

Ludwig Wallach died on 01.11.1941. We do not know more details about his death.

Bertha Wallach was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on 20 August 1942 - a few months after her husband's death. A total of 141,000 people were imprisoned there until May 1945, including 15,000 children. One year before her death, she was deported to Auschwitz on 16 May 1944. Her exact date of death is not known and, according to records, can only be dated before 08.05.1945, the day the war ended and the Wehrmacht surrendered.

The Wallach couple had a son named Ernst Wallach, who survived the Third Reich and died only in 1999, presumably in the USA. He was married to Irma Benesi (1903-1991).