Clara Jacobowitz née Wolff

Clara Jacobowitz, née Wolff, born on June 7, 1867 in Groß Strehlitz, Upper Silesia had married Adolf Jacobowitz on December 31, 1915 in Berlin Friedenau. She gave as her occupation: Private teacher; Adolf was a pensioner.

In April 1930, Hermann and Gertrud Coper and their daughters Bianca and Ilse moved to Bismarckstr. 8 in Friedenau - from 1937 Jänischallee, since 1947 Sarrazinstraße 22 - into the house that belonged to Adolf Jacobowitz's second wife. It was a large tenement house; in 1938 there were fourteen tenants listed in it. In this house the family had its own four-room apartment. The family's relationship with Gertrud's stepmother must have been very good, because Ilse Henriette writes in her curriculum vitae that her step-grandmother - Clara Jacobowitz - wanted to pay for both the Lyceum and her later studies in chemistry.

Ilse and Bianca were sent to England by their parents; they themselves were deported to Kowno on 17.11.1941 and murdered.

Clara Jacobowitz lived in the house until 1942. She had to experience how Gertrud and Hermann were deported. Less than a year later, on September 14, 1942, she was taken to Theresienstadt. The train departed from Berlin-Moabit (Putlitzstraße) and arrived in Theresien-stadt one day later. The Gestapo ordered a train from the Deutsche Reichsbahn, and it was provided under the number Da 514. The so-called 2nd Great Old Age Transport consisted of 1000 people, including 82 residents of the Berlin Home for the Blind and Deaf. Clara died shortly after their arrival, on October 31, 1942. She was 74 years old.