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Paula Sternberg * 1867

Haynstraße 1 (Hamburg-Nord, Eppendorf)

1942 Theresienstadt
1942 weiterdeportiert nach Minsk

further stumbling stones in Haynstraße 1:
Elsa Schickler

Paula Sternberg, b. 2.5.1867 in Hamburg, deported to Theresienstadt on 7.19.1942, then deported on to Treblinka on 9.21.1942

Haynstraße 1

Paula Sternberg was the only daughter of the cigar maker Salomon Meyer Sternberg and his wife Adelheid, née Salomo. They married on 4 June 1854.

Paula, also known as Pauline, worked in a mail-order business after finishing school; then she began her training in a teaching seminar in Hamburg. On 20 August 1886, she entered service in the Hamburg school system. In 1903, she was tenured and worked from 1912 onward in various Hamburg elementary schools: from 1912 to 1915 at the girls’ school at Berliner Thor 29, then at the boys’ school at Angerstrasse 31, which had to function as an infirmary during the war years 1918 and 1919. The last years of her professional life, between 1925 and 1927, were spent at the boys’ school at Lehmweg 14. She was a member of the Association of Hamburg Elementary Schoolteachers and of the "Society of Friends of the Patriotic Educational System."

At the time of her retirement she had already been living for many years at Hansastrasse 35, subletting from Clemens. Her pension from the public education office was 224 RM per month. As the housing situation for Jews became ever more constricted after 1939, she, despite her age, was forced to move several times: first to Haynstrasse, a sublet with the Emden family, then to Lenhartzstrasse 3, with the Höxter couple, and from there to Curschmannstrasse 2, also with the Höxters.

From there she switched to the former Samuel Lewisohn Foundation at Kleinen Schäferkamp 32 and finally to the former Pauline Foundation Orphanage for Israelite Girls at Laufgraben 37, which from November 1941 served as a Jewish old people’s home. It was there that she received her deportation order to Theresienstadt for 19 June 1942. She lived there for two months before being again deported on 21 September, this time to the Treblinka extermination camp.


Translator: Richard Levy
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: January 2019
© Claudia García

Quellen: 1; 7; 8; 9; 34; StaH 314-15 OFP, R 1940/984 Paula Sternberg; StaH 332-3 Zivilstandsaufsicht 1866–1875 Nr. 556; Verzeichnis Hamburger Volksschullehrer 1914/1915; Paula Sternberg USHMM/ITS/ 1.1.42.2 Kartei Theresienstadt, 5099736_1.
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