Flora Kapellner née Goldschmidt

Flora Goldschmidt is born on 22 March 1886 as the daughter of the merchant Mose Goldschmidt (1843-1900) and his wife Lina Goldschmidt (née Blum) in Monsheim/Hesse.
Flora has two sisters, Alice and Julie.
We do not know how she grew up or whether she learned a trade.

On 5 August 1920, at the age of thirty-four, she married Heinrich Kapellner (1889-1936), a businessman three years her senior. At this time he lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
In 1922 their first daughter Nora (1922-1943) was born in Monsheim, followed in 1924 by their second daughter Ingeborg (1924-1943), who was born in Potsdam/Brandenburg.

In 1934 at least, Flora Kapellner and her husband founded the "Kapellner Children's Home" at Große Weinmeisterstraße 26/27 in Potsdam and advertised it in various newspapers.
Together they planned to move the children's home to Berlin-Zehlendorf in 1936 for reasons we do not know.
However, her husband Chaskel died of natural causes before the move.
From 1936 their children's home traded under the address Herrmannstraße 11 (today 11a) in Zehlendorf.

In addition to the Kapellner family, Flora's sister, Alice Goldschmidt (1890-1943), who worked at the children's home after Chaskel's death, also lived there. Between 1936 and 1942, at least 40 children and adolescents lived there, many of whom were murdered in the Holocaust, as were her two daughters.

At the beginning of 1942, the children's home was dissolved and the tenancy agreement terminated.

Flora Kapellner was deported to the "East" on 26 October 1942 together with her daughter Ingeborg on the 22nd transport. Today we know that the transport went to Riga, where they were murdered only three days later, on 29.10.1942.

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