Overview
- Caption
- Photograph of the Gottschalk family.
Minna and Julius Gottschalk pose with their children Hermann, Ernst-August, and Karola by an unidentified exterior. - Date
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1941
- Locale
- Hamburg, [Hansestadt] Germany?
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Carl H. Rosner
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Carl H. RosnerSource Record ID: Collections: IRN 539408Second Record ID: Collections: 2016.308
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Minna Gottschalk was born in Emden, Germany on February 5, 1903 to Hermann and Caroline (nee Hartogsohn) van der Walde. In 1923 Minna married Julius Gottschalk (b. 1898 in Hannover) who had come to Emden to teach at the local Jewish school. The couple went on to have three children, Hermann (b. 1926), Ernst-August (b. 1928), and Karola (b. 1933). The Gottschalk family lived in Emden, where Julius continued to teach, until the dissolution of the local Jewish school in early 1939. The following February the family were forced to relocate to Hamburg, and shortly after arriving, Minna and Julius became caretakers at the Jewish orphanage. Minna, Julius, and their children were initially spared from deportation when the remaining residents and staff of the orphanage were sent to Auschwitz in July 1942. Thereafter Julius assumed responsibility for running an old age home maintained by the community. The family continued to reside in Hamburg until June 1, 1943, when the home was dissolved and the remaining inhabitants were sent to Theresienstadt. The Gottschalk family survived together in the Theresienstadt ghetto for over a year after their deportation. The family was separated on September 23, 1944 when Julius, Hermann, and Ernst-August were transported to Auschwitz. Minna and Karola arrived in the camp at the end of October. None of the Gottschalk family members survived the Holocaust.
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