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Bergstr. 11\/1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Old-Established Family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa B\u0171hler, n\u00e9e Heumann, was born on April 2, 1870, in G\u0151ppingen.  Samuel Heumann, her father, was a for rags (paper production) from Laupheim who did not move to G\u0151ppingen until 1866. In Laupheim Samuel had left a great family. Some of uncles played major roles in the social life of the town. Most likely the connection with G\u0151ppingen was established because of his wife Franziska (also Fanny \/ Fanni), n\u00e9e Lindauer, whom he married in 1864.  The wedding did not take place in Jebenhausen, the bride’s place of residence, but in Laupheim, which was unusual according to the traditions of that time. And here the Lindauer family had been among the first Jewish settlers there! Rosa’s great-grandfather Seligmann L\u0151b Lindauer had been one of the ‘Schutzjuden’ [Jews under special protection] who on July 17, 1777, were granted special permission to settle in the territory of the Liebenstein barony. A majority of the Lindauer family emigrated to the USA during the 19th century, including six of the eight siblings of Rosa’s mother Franziska. It is not known where the young Heumann family took up residence in G\u0151ppingen when they first arrived there. Probably it was at Querstrasse 14, then in 1900 at Langestrasse 40a, according the the city directory. Rosa was only seven years old when her mother died \u2013 which must have been one of the saddest experiences in her life. Samuel Heumann re-married, and hopefully his second wife Karoline Herz was a good stepmother to the small child Rosa. Karoline later had three children of her own; Benno, her first child, was not born until two years after the wedding took place \u2013 therefore Karoline should have had enough time to get used to her stepchildren. The New World also attracted this new generation of Lindauer descendants: Rosa’s oldest brothers Julius and Hermann  emigrated to the USA in 1890 and 1895 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only her younger brother Hugo Heumann remained in G\u0151ppingen and carried on the business of his father which was located in the Ulrichstrasse and dealt in cotton goods and rags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marriage and Move to Munich<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa did not move across the ‘Big Lake’ [Atlantic Ocean], however, on January 1, 1892, she moved to Munich with Samuel B\u0171hler, whom she had married in December 1891 in G\u0151ppingen. Samuel came from the village of Kleinerdlingen near Noerdlingen. He was seven years older than Rosa and was a merchant by profession.  Additional information about his business activities could not be ascertained, but he might have worked with his brother Rafael who also lived in Munich. According to documents in the G\u0151ppingen archives, Rosa and Samuel B\u0171hler remained childless.  However, the Munich residents registry shows different information: on December 23, 1892, Rosa gave birth to a daughter who was named Franziska after her mother, however the child died soon, on January 12, 1893.  Two years later the tragedy repeated itself: on April 10, 1895, Rosa gave birth to a boy who was to be named Justin. It could not be determined exactly when this much hoped-for child died, but it must have been shortly thereafter. How did Rosa’s life without children continue in Munich? Did she try to find employment, maybe working in the business of her husband? Unfortunately there are not answers to these questions. On November 26, 1935, her husband Samuel died after 42 years of marriage. Rosa remained in Munich only one more year after that. The Munich documents read as follows: \u201cIn April 1936, Mrs. B\u0171hler received permission to sell the remaining inventory of her deceased husband’s business.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her Own ‘Little House’ in G\u0151ppingen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Bergstr. 11\/1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On July 30, 1936, Rosa moved back to G\u0151ppingen, her birth place, according to the Munich residents registry records. (According to G\u0151ppingen records, her move already took place on July 1).  At that time, her brother Hugo, as well as half-siblings from her father’s second marriage, were living in  G\u0151ppingen. But Rosa B\u0171hler did not arrive penniless in G\u0151ppingen because on August 10, 1936, she was able to buy a house at Bergstrasse 11\/1, where it was recorded that she lived until August 19, 1941. Why did she leave her own house after that date and move to a house at Burgstrasse 16 which was owned by the Banemann family? Had she become so financially destitute that she had to rent out her house?  On July 3, 1942, G\u0151ppingen resident Hedwig Frankfurter<\/a> wrote to her friend Thilde Gutmann who lived in Switzerland: ‘H. Lendt<\/a>, Fr. Jenny Heimann<\/a>, Fr. Benzinger<\/a>, and Fr. B\u0171hler have to go to Wei\u00dfenstein.<\/em>‘<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mention of ‘Wei\u00dfenstein’ refers to a castle <\/a>located in the County of G\u0151ppingen which at that time was being misused as a forced residential home for Jewish people. However, at the time this letter was written, Rosa B\u0171hler was already living in the ‘Jewish house’ at Metzgerstrasse 16, where she had to exist under depressing conditions for half a year until August 20, 1942. But Rosa never was taken to Wei\u00dfenstein, which was only a stop-over on the way to be murdered anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theresienstadt \u2013 Treblinka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 23, 1942, pensioner Rosa B\u0171hler was locked into a train which traveled from Stuttgart’s Nordbahnhof [northern railway station] to the ghetto concentration camp Theresienstadt. She was one of 13 mainly elderly Jewish G\u0151ppingen residents on this transport. Inge Auerbacher, who was the only child among them, remembers their arrival: \u201cTwo days later, loud yelling ended our trip. We had arrived at the railroad station of Bohusovice. ‘Throw away everything but your sleeping roll and your eating utensils \u2013 hurry up, march, no resistance!’  Guards with whips and rifles surrounded us. We all were very tired and scared. A few older people who were not steady on their legs fell down. Their cries for help filled the air. Many died on the way. (\u2026) We had to walk about three kilometers and were driven through an arched entrance into a large barracks area. There we were surrounded by high walls.\u201d Rosa B\u0171hler survived the horrendous scene of the arrival, but she already had to leave Theresienstadt one month later: on September 29, 1942, she was deported to Treblinka, the  extermination concentration camp located in German-occupied Poland. Here Rosa B\u0171hler was murdered at the age of 72. In Treblinka most of the victims were asphyxiated by muffler exhaust gases; whoever was too frail to manage the walk from the railroad track to the gas chamber was shot by the SS guards right by the ditches which had been dug there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Rosa B\u0171hler’s deportation, the NS-government (= Reich finance administration) enriched itself by taking possession of her house at Bergstrasse 11\/1 so it could be sold to G\u0151ppingen Hitler-Youth-leader Paul Schillo in 1943. During the restitution proceedings, when Mr. Schillo was forced to turn the house over to Rosa B\u0171hler’s heirs, he felt cheated: he had been assured by the official who handled the sale that there would never be any heirs who could make claims for the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of Rosa\u2019s close relatives were also murdered by the Nazis: her cousin Jeanette Oppenheimer, n\u00e9e Heumann, who lived in Munich, died like Rosa at the Treblinka extermination camp. Fanny Nathan, n\u00e9e Heumann, who lived in Ulm and also was a cousin on her father\u2019s side lost her life at Theresienstadt, Fanny\u2019s daughter Sara Nathan was murdered at Izbica. Four children of Rosa\u2019s cousin Heinrich Heumann as well as a child of her cousin Josef Heumann died during the holocaust. The siblings of Rosa\u2019s sister-in-law Frieda B\u00fchler, n\u00e9e Rosenau, who was the wife of her brother Hugo, were also murdered.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jeanette Oppenheimer, n\u00e9e. Heumann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On October 2, 2013, a Stumbling Stone was laid in memory of Rosa B\u0171hler in front of her house at Bergstrasse 11\/1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(19th<\/sup> of December 2016 kmr\/ir)<\/p>\n\n\n

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