Armin's sister
Else Meyer née Gerechter
Berlin, 8 November 1888 – Riga-Jungfernhof, after Dec 1941
Else Gerechter was born in Berlin on 8 November 1888.
She married Hermann Meyer and made her home in Hamburg, where her children Ingrid and Walter were born in 1925 and 1926.
On 6 December 1941 Else, Ingrid and Walter were deported from Hamburg to Jungfernhof, near Riga, and murdered there. Else was fifty-three. Ingrid was sixteen and Walter fourteen.
Before 1933
Else lived in Hamburg from at least the 1920s. Ingrid was born on 3 September 1925 and Walter on 9 December 1926.
1938 – 1945
In May 1939 Else lived with Ingrid and Walter at Roonstraße 34 in Eimsbüttel. Hermann was not living with them. Her last address was Sonninstraße 16, where she was listed as a worker.
On 6 December 1941 the three of them were deported to Riga-Jungfernhof. Two cousins of the family from Hamburg were on the same train.
After
Stolpersteine for Else, Ingrid and Walter lie in Hamburg, in front of Roonstraße 34.
Close family
- FatherWilhelm Gerechter 1860 – 1926
- MotherCäcilie Gerechter, née Schiller 1862 – 1918
- HusbandHermann Meyer 1886 – 1941?
- DaughterIngrid Meyer 1925 – 1941/42
- SonWalter Meyer 1926 – 1941/42
- BrotherDr. Erich Gerechter 1885 – 1949
- SisterMargarete Lewinsky, née Gerechter 1887 – 1943
- BrotherGeorg Gerechter 1892 – 1915
- SisterHedwig Gerechter b. 1894
- BrotherRobert Gerechter 1896 – 1936
- SisterFrida Gutmann, née Gerechter 1898 – 1943
- BrotherArmin Josef Gerechter 1899 – 1955
- SisterEdith Bernhard, née Gerechter 1901 – 1943
- SisterIrma Kassel, née Gerechter 1904 – 1943
What we don't know
We don't know what happened to Hermann. One family tree says he was killed in Hamburg in March 1941, but no record of it has been found. We don't know the day Else and her children died.
The recordsthe archive's notes, dates and sources
Life events
| Date | Place | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s-1941 | Hamburg | Family home GB |
| 17 May 1939 | Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, Roonstr. 34 I | Census address with Ingrid and Walter. Hermann is not in the household MTL |
| 15 Mar 1941 | Hamburg | Husband said to have been killed GENI |
| 1941 | Hamburg, Sonninstr. 16 | Last address before deportation (Else listed as a worker) STAT |
| 6 Dec 1941 | Hamburg → Riga-Jungfernhof | Deported with both children (list nos. 487, 491, 498); all murdered. Amalie and Bernhard Gerechter, Borek-Hamburg cousins, were on the same train STAT, GB |
| 3 Dec 2014 (page date) | Hamburg, Roonstr. 34 | Stolpersteine for Else, Ingrid and Walter; none for Hermann; no biography STOL-HH |
Sources
- Gedenkbuch de927716, de928111, de929151
- Gestapo Hamburg transport list, p. 22
- Stolpersteine Hamburg (BIO_ID 6946-6948)
- Mapping the Lives
- Geni
The small letters after an entry name its source: GB the German Memorial Book, JM the Joods Monument, AROL the Arolsen Archives, GENI the family tree on Geni, STOL the stones.