Personal Details
Classification
Mischling 1. Grades (Halbjude)
Profession
Cook (trained at Jewish hospital in Mainz)
Address
Hauptstätter Str. 92, Stuttgart
(1933-1942)
Address
Hospitalstr. 36, Stuttgart
(1942-1943)
Location Trail
Born:
Mannheim
(06.09.1923)
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Resided (1933-1942):
Hauptstätter Str. 92, Stuttgart
(1933)
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Family moves to Stuttgart:
Hauptstätter Str. 92, Stuttgart
(1933)
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Transferred to Jewish school:
Hospitalstr. 36, Stuttgart
(1935)
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Trained as cook in Mainz:
Mainz
(1939)
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Resided (1942-1943):
Hospitalstr. 36, Stuttgart
(1942)
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Family moves to Hospitalstr. 36:
Hospitalstr. 36, Stuttgart
(1942)
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Interned:
Ghetto Theresienstadt
(17.04.1943)
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Deported to Theresienstadt (same transport as Margit):
Ghetto Theresienstadt
(17.04.1943)
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Interned:
KZ Auschwitz
(29.09.1944)
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Deported to KZ Auschwitz:
KZ Auschwitz
(29.09.1944)
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Interned:
KZ Dachau
(10.10.1944)
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Sent to KZ Dachau:
KZ Dachau
(10.10.1944)
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Died:
KZ Dachau
(08.02.1945)
Persecution & Camps
Ghetto Theresienstadt
17.04.1943
– 29.09.1944
KZ Auschwitz
29.09.1944
– 10.10.1944
KZ Dachau
10.10.1944
– 08.02.1945
→ died
Timeline Events
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06.09.1923
Born in Mannheim
"Mischling 1. Grades" (half-Jewish)
📍 Mannheim
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1933
Family moves to Stuttgart
Attends Fangelsbachschule
📍 Hauptstätter Str. 92, Stuttgart
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1935
Transferred to Jewish school
From 1935 attended Jewish school at Hospitalstr. 36
📍 Hospitalstr. 36, Stuttgart
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1939
Trained as cook in Mainz
Cook training at Jewish hospital kitchen. From 1940: works for Jewish community in Stuttgart.
📍 Mainz
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1942
Family moves to Hospitalstr. 36
Judenhaus – same address as Margit
📍 Hospitalstr. 36, Stuttgart
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17.04.1943
Deported to Theresienstadt (same transport as Margit)
Transport XIII/2. Met Margit in camp. Spoke of becoming a doctor.
📍 Ghetto Theresienstadt
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09.1944
Sent from Theresienstadt in transport of 600 men
Memoir: September 1944, shipment of 600 able-bodied men. Margit had to say goodbye. 'The parting was heartbreaking with lots of tears and kisses and hopes of seeing each other as free human beings.'
📍 Ghetto Theresienstadt
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29.09.1944
Deported to KZ Auschwitz
Margit followed 2 days later (01.10.1944)
📍 KZ Auschwitz
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10.10.1944
Sent to KZ Dachau
📍 KZ Dachau
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08.02.1945
Died in KZ Dachau
Stolperstein: Hauptstätter Str. 92, Stuttgart
📍 KZ Dachau
Notes
Attended Fangelsbachschule in Stuttgart from 1933
From 1935 transferred to Jewish school at Hospitalstr. 36
From 1940 worked for Jewish community in Stuttgart
Wanted to become a doctor
Margit followed him to Auschwitz voluntarily
'M. E. Bernstein' (Margit) later testified about him
Memoir: His mother (Emilie Michelbacher) and Margit's mother tried to cancel the transport to Theresienstadt.
Memoir: In Theresienstadt, said to his mother 'If they release me from the shipment and Margit not what do we have?' His parents lived separately; stepfather was Christian.
Memoir: September 1944, included in shipment of 600 able-bodied men sent from Theresienstadt. Margit had to say goodbye.
Memoir: Margit learned after liberation that he died 14 days before Dachau was liberated, of typhoid, from starvation and exhaustion.
Sources
Stolpersteine Stuttgart
Margit Bernstein Memoir (English Translation)