Marianne Rendsburg
* 1920

Marianne Rendsburg, née Rosenbaum, born on 24 May 1920, deported on 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz, date of death 9 Jan. 1945 in the Stutthof concentration camp

Marianne Rendsburg was the younger daughter of Max Rosenbaum and his wife Else Emma, née Philip. Marianne was born in Hamburg on 24 May 1920. Her mother raised her in the Protestant faith. As a former playmate remembered, there was a large games room and “toys that we only dreamed of back then.” When it became apparent that Marianne would not be able to take her graduation exam (Abitur), she completed training as a tailor. On 13 Mar. 1939, she married Manfred Rendsburg. Reportedly, they wedded according to Jewish rites. Her husband moved in with her to Hammer Landstrasse 59. The two intended to emigrate to the USA but the endeavor failed.

The deportation order to Lodz on 25 Oct. 1941 reached Marianne Rendsburg along with her husband, parents, as well as sister Gertrud and brother-in-law Julius Sachs. Gertrud and Julius Sachs were deferred.

In the Lodz Ghetto, Marianne was quartered with her parents in a room with kitchen for six persons at Franzstrasse 30/20. Marianne was registered as a homemaker. Her husband survived the Shoah and reported that she had worked as a tailor in the uniform organizational unit (Uniformenressort). For his part, he had worked in the fire brigade.

Marianne and Manfred Rendsburg lived in the Lodz Ghetto until the summer of 1944, and upon its evacuation, they were deported to Auschwitz. Having arrived there, they were separated, subsequently seeing each other by coincidence only once more. Manfred Rendsburg was taken to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp to perform forced labor, reaching western Germany in several stages and finally arriving in Hamburg again. Nothing is known about Marianne’s path to the Stutthof concentration camp, only the date of her death there: 9 Jan. 1945.

Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.