Johanna Stern
* 1865

Johanna Stern, née Jüdell, b. 1.1.1865 in Altona, deported on 7.15.1942 to Theresienstadt, dying there on 2.8.1943

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Johanna Jüdell was born in Altona. She married Feodor Stern, a pushcart peddler, born in Essen-Borbeck on 12.1.1871, also of Jewish descent. The marriage produced a son, Felix, born 7.9.1899.

The couple was deported on 15 July 1942. Johanna Stern’s address in “the old people’s ghetto,” Theresienstadt, was building Q 808, room 02. On the morning of 8 February 1943, she died there. The death certificate reads, gastroenteritis; an exact cause of death is not noted. Her husband Feodor survived the ghetto. His subsequent fate and that of his son Felix are not known.

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