Edith Schlesinger née Ahlfeld

Edith Ahlfeld was born on September 10, 1893 in Barmen. In 1919 she married the Berlin manufacturer Erich Schlesinger. The couple lived with Edith's mother, Rosa Ahlfeld, at Sebastianstraße 20, where the silverware factory was also located.

According to the files of the Berlin Oberfinanzdirektion, the Schlesingers were forced to give up their apartment and the family business on April 5, 1940. They moved into the house at Sebastianstraße 63. The company was probably taken over by a former employee. Edith Schlesinger worked as a shorthand typist in her own company for 150 Reichsmarks a month.

Together with her husband and mother, Edith Schlesinger was deported to Theresienstadt on August 28, 1942, where Erich Schlesinger was murdered on September 10, 1942, on her 49th birthday. Her mother, Rosa Ahlfeld, was murdered a day later on September 11th. Edith Schlesinger was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on October 9, 1944. She survived Auschwitz.

In May 1946 she went by ship from Bremerhaven to New York, where her brother Felix Ahlfeld lived. Edith Schlesinger was 95 years old. She died in New York on May 2, 1989.