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Hedwig Kubatzky was born on 13 January 1875 in Zippnow near Deutsch Krone in West Prussia. Her parents were the master glazier David Kubatzky and his wife Jenny, née Lindenberg. In the same year, the family moved to Ratzebuhr in Pomerania. Hedwig was the second eldest of the original seven siblings. Her brother Louis died in 1884 at the age of eight.
She learnt the trade of dressmaker. In 1897, she moved to Berlin with her sister Wanda, where she worked as a milliner. In the 1930s, she lived at what was then Ludendorffstraße 64 (now Pohlstraße).
In 1940, she was assigned a flat at Turmstraße 9, from where she was deported to Riga on 27 November 1941. Hedwig Kubatzky was murdered there in the Rumbula forest on 30 November 1941.
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