Frohsinn Emma – Gedenkbuch

Frohsinn, Emma

geb. Herz

Geburtsdatum:: 08.01.1878
Geburtsort:: Beuel

Beruf:: Hausfrau

Wohnorte:: In der Lohe 7, Kaiserswertherstraße 220

Todesdatum:: nach 1941
Todesort:: Ghetto Riga

Erna Emma Frohsinn wurde am 8. Januar 1878 als Erna Emma Herz in Beuel, Bonn geboren. Über ihre Eltern liegen leider keine Informationen vor. Im Juni 1904 gaben die 26-jährige Emma Herz und der in Düsseldorf wohnende Kaufmann Willy Frohsinn (geboren 1873) ihre Verlobung bekannt.

Emma Frohsinn und ihr Mann Willy wohnten in Düsseldorf. 1931 wohnten sie auf der Uerdinger Straße 26 und 1932 in der zweiten Etage der Roßstraße 22. 1933 folgte ein Umzug in die erste Etage der Kaiserswertherstraße 220 (ab 1933 umbenannt in Richthofenstraße).

Am 4. Juni 1935 verstarb Emmas Ehemann Willy Frohsinn kurz vor seinem 62. Geburtstag. Er wurde auf dem neuen jüdischen Friedhof bestattet. Die verwitwete Emma Frohsinn wohnte noch mindestens bis 1937 auf der Richthofenstraße 220. Wenige Jahre nach dem Tod ihres Mannes zog Emma Frohsinn gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwägerin Helene Frohsinn in eine Wohnung auf der Straße In der Lohe 7. Von hier zogen sie am 2. Juni 1939 auf den Fürstenwall 198. Am 10. April 1941 mussten Emma und ihre Schwägerin in ein sogenanntes Judenhaus auf dem Schwanenmarkt 3 umziehen.

Am 11. Dezember 1941 wurde die 63-jährige Emma Frohsinn von Düsseldorf aus in das Ghetto Riga deportiert. Auch ihre Schwägerin Helene Frohsinn wurde mit demselben Transport in das Ghetto deportiert. Aus dem Ghetto sind keine Dokumente überliefert, die über den weiteren Weg von Emma oder Helene Auskunft geben. Sie haben nicht überlebt.

Autorin: Frederike Krenz, Förderkreis der Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf e.V.

Quellenangaben

Verlobungsanzeige aus dem Jahr 1904 (Sammlung Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf)

Seite der Deportationsliste von Düsseldorf ins Ghetto Riga, 1941 (Arolsen Archives, ID 11199036)

Suche

Name
Nachnamen suchen
Vorname
Vornamen suchen
Geburtsname
Geburtsnamen suchen
Geburtsort
Geburtsorte suchen
Sterbedatum
Sterbedaten suchen
Sterbeort
Sterbeorte suchen
Beruf
Berufe suchen
Straße
Straßen suchen

Introduction

Presented by the City of Düsseldorf, this digital memorial book commemorates the Jews who were murdered during the Nazi. The City’s Memorial and Education Centre has been researching victims’ life stories since its foundation in 1987, collecting biographical data, documents, letters and photographs. Using databases whose origins can be traced back to the 1990s, together with the collated information to be found in the archival collection, almost 3,000 individuals have been identified who were persecuted and murdered because they were Jews, or “non-Aryan” Christians.

Biographical research into the above necessitated searches – of both national and international archives – for a variety of documents such as register office certificates, registration indexes, address books and exit papers. Perpetrator resources, too, were searched, for example Gestapo files, files relating to communal matters, and tax and administrative district files. Numerous interviews with survivors and members of victims‘ families provided insights into family life, routine and otherwise, as well as of the personality of the deceased.

The cohort of those who were murdered is heterogeneous. Old and young, men and women, the young and the elderly, people from modest backgrounds or those who had built a secure living for themselves; people who, after 1933, had fled to the European continent but who were then “reeled in” by the German occupation; people whose death or murder came about in a variety of circumstances. Some died of starvation, disease or forced labour in the ghettos and concentration camps to which they had been deported, others were murdered in extermination camps. And there were also those who, out of despair, committed suicide or were murdered before the outbreak of war whilst still at home, for example during the 1938 November Pogrom and in other violent events.

The relationship to Judaism of many of those who died was very individual. The breadth and depth of the spectrum was such that they ranged from the deeply pious and orthodox to those of a more liberal or conservative persuasion and, at the other end of the scale, to atheists. All were persecuted as “Jews” by reason of their ancestry, whether they were baptised Christians, having previously been Jews, or had become Jews only in the course of Nazi “investigations”, despite never having had a Jewish identity. Nazi ideology decreed that the decisive factor was not individual identity but “ancestry”, “blood relationship” and “racial hygiene”. Despite all their differences, what all these people had in common was that they came from Düsseldorf, had been born there or had lived there for many years.

Scientific research can access genealogical connections by availing itself of the online compilation of names, dates and biographies; but in addition, by creating connections with their own personal research, survivors and their descendants the world over can also search for their murdered families.

The work on an online memorial book is never done. The intention is to add more dates and names. Of course the Düsseldorf Memorial and Education Centre is grateful for any leads, additions and corrections which contribute to the overall picture.

Düsseldorf, May 2022

Hildegard Jakobs
Academic Project Leader
and Deputy Director

Dr. Bastian Fleermann
Director