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Sophie (“Lisel”) Hes

Female 1896 - 1942  (45 years)


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  • Name Sophie (“Lisel”) Hes  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 30 Aug 1896  Papenburg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death Jun 1942  Sobibor-Biala Podleska, Poland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5233  Rothschild_Bloom
    Last Modified 5 Jul 2015 

    Father Aron Hes,   b. Papenburg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Mathilde Prag,   b. Ankum, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3724  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Bernhard Rothschild,   b. 1892, Schluchtern, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Nov 1978 (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage 1 Mar 1926 
    Children 
     1. Regina Rothschild,   b. 5 Dec 1928, Papenburg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1942, Auschwitz, Kz, Krakow, Poland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 13 years)
     2. Mirjam Rothschild,   b. 17 Aug 1933, Hamburg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1942, Auschwitz, Kz, Krakow, Poland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 8 years)
    Family ID F2489  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 Jul 2015 

  • Notes 
    • Shoah victim, died in the holocaust.

      Sophie Rothschild was a daughter of businessman and longtime synagogue Aron Hes from Papenburg and his wife Mathilde, born in Prague, from Ankum. On March 01, 1926 she married Bernhard Rothschild from Schlüchtern (Hessen).
      The family lived in the Friederikestraße 12 and had two children, Regina and Miriam. Bernhard Rothschild ran - together with Ignatz Hes the youngest brother of his wife Sophie - the leather shop "HI Hes "in Friederikestraße. (See Selma Hes)
      In the summer of 1939 her husband Bernhard had fled to England. His efforts the family demand zuholen were unsuccessful. The parental home with the leather shop was looted and burned, the possessions in the city of Papenburg sold. In addition, she was mentally ill. Susceptible to this disease, she had spent already in September 1934 and October 1935, two weeks in the Landesheil- and Sanatorium Osnabrück. In the spring of 1941, the disease broke out again.

      Sophie was on 23 October 1941 brought by order of the welfare association Aschendorf, in the Jewish Hospital and Sanatorium-Sayn near Koblenz. (Http://www.bendorf.de/area/mainoutp.cfm?docRefId=3194&ic=1)
      Her children Regina and Miriam to put in a home in Hamburg. (See below)

      Unable to manage their personal and financial affairs, the district court in patent penburg ordered for a male nurse from Koblenz, Dr. Salomon. He initially tried to ratios on the asset of Sophie Rothschild and the situation of children to gain insight.

      Sophie Rothschild had a savings account at the Sparkasse Papenburg amounting to RM 1358.62. This was offset by demands of caring association in Aschendorf for transport costs, the institution Bendorf Sayn-care costs and for the home in Hamburg for education and maintenance allowance. With the Bemü- the caregiver increases the time passed and on March 28, 1942 received the District Court Papenburg the letter Ben a new nurse: "In the above case, I share the Amtsgericht erg with that my colleague Dr. Salomon 22 ds. , Mts. has been evacuated. I have taken on his request behördliches ongoing acts provisionally for further processing. "

      The nurse Dr. Salomon was therefore deported and replaced by a new nurse for Sophie Rothschild achieved. "The matter is urgent for the reason, because under the assets of the humanities sick including a lift with furniture is, still stored in Papenburg. By letter of 18 March the Mayor of Papenburg announced that furniture would otherwise urgently needed, and results therefore examined the stuff release for sale. "The authorities need to sell the furniture, it went to a kitchen, a bedroom, laundry , beds, kitchen utensils and other things, the approval of Sophie Rothschild and that was to have representative only of a court-appointed keepers.

      In the "otherwise use urgent" It was up to the large-scale sale of the furniture of deported Jews "bombed and underprivileged families and people to young married spouses." Not only is the furniture of the local Jews were for sale, but a total of several shiploads from abroad, including from neighboring Groningen. Overall, 37,136, - RM took the city. (. The District Management Office Aschendorf brought it through sales in the county ash Village Hümmling to RM 142,233.38 1 Reichsmark equivalent to a present value of about 10, - €)

      In order to undertake the affairs of Sophie Rothschild of new nurses started with the Nachfor- mixtures to remain the savings assets. On 19 June 1942, the District Court Papenburg received a new letter: "In the court concerning Rothschild ... I show the District Court in my capacity as a ger. appointed nurse for mentally disturbed wife Sophie Rothschild, born Hes erg. that woman Rothschild after me a few days ago by the mental hospital in Sayn received by email on 14 ds. Mts. has moved from there. Since in such cases, the assets of the migrated attracted entered the kingdom, and for this purpose the örtl. Tax offices are responsible, it would be advisable, with the abolition of Curatorship still some time to wait, as compared to the tax authorities usually still declarations shall be made, I can only give this but if I'm still nurse. "

      At the same time the nurse announced its final report as soon as the matter of the furniture of Sophie Rothschild was clarified. The final report in the court concerning Sophie Rothschild took place on 14 September 1942 and was essentially an accounting of the whereabouts of the assets of Sophie Rothschild. 150, - RM calculated the nurse as "reasonable compensation" for his correspondence with the various authorities. The savings of Sophie Rothschild had originally amounted to 1358.62 RM, however, had the nurse Dr. Salomon already 137,10 RM to the welfare association in Aschendorf and RM 290.25 on transportation costs and 5.50 RM for writing fees to the National Association of Jews Bezirksstel- le Hannover-Kassel paid. The new nurse took over and it still 925.77 RM subjected to stress in the sanatorium for Sayn care costs of 24 October 1941 to June 1942, RM 1289.23. The shortfall, as well as the 150 RM fee for the nurse, took over the tax office Aschendorf, since it had taken in 2000 on the sale of RM furniture. In the category of outstanding liabilities of the Sophie Rothschild yet appeared, another item of expenditure. With 50, - RM for "cost of emigration of" Sophie Rothschild had to pay for the transport to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in death itself. (U. Eissing, Gedenkbuch S. 127 ff)

      Sophie Rothschild was "Since 22" deported on 15 June 1942, the special train from Koblenz to Sobibor. The rolling stock on this transport from Koblenz to be specially compiled from 15 cars and 9 wagons. The freight cars were provided for the mentally handicapped Jews from the Israelite Hospital and Sanatorium Bendorf-Sayn. These were on 14 June 1942 the Bendorf- Sayn station with about 250 patient lying the hospital and with about 80 staff members (nurses and doctors tern) loaded. The special train left Koblenz-Lützel at June 15, 1942 at 0.00 clock and was then filled with people from other state police districts on the Rhine and Ruhr.

      After selection on a siding in Lublin (Poland) initially about 100 men were "Since 22" brought from the transport in the Majdanek camp. The train was then passed directly to Sobibor without first even to touch the passage Ghetto Izbica.
      Sophie Rothschild was 46 years old when she was gassed in Sobibor extermination camp. [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S319] Gunter Demnig, Stolperstein in Papenburg und Aschendorf.

    2. [S320] Elaine Silverman Teitcher, Bernhard Rothschild, Re: Bernhard Rothschild.

    3. [S321] Engagement Announcement for Bernhard Rothschild and Lisel (Sophie) Hes.