Gertrud Nothmann née Bernhard

Location 
Hugo-Vogel-Straße 16
District
Wannsee
Stone was laid
29 May 2024
Born
23 February 1897 in Berlin
Escape
1939 Holland
Interniert
1943 in Westerbork
Deportation
on 04 September 1944 to Theresienstadt
Later deported
on 16 October 1944 to Auschwitz
Murdered
18 October 1944 in Auschwitz

Gertrud Bernhard was born on 23 February 1897 in Berlin.
She married Friedrich Fritz Nothmann in 1926.
They had two sons, Karl Andreas (*11 November 1926) and Georg Albrecht Leonhart (*30 January 1932). The family lived in Wannsee at Moltkestraße 10 (later Hugo-Vogel-Straße 16) in the house of Gertrud Nothmann's parents.
In 1929, Friedrich Nothmann became a chamber court judge and judge of the 2nd Senate of the Berlin Chamber Court in Schöneberg (there is also a Stumbling Stone for him here).
In March 1933, he was mobbed and beaten by Nazis in a street near Kleist Park. On 13 July 1933, like so many others, he was dismissed as a judge by the National Socialists.

Friedrich Nothmann emigrated to Holland in 1939; Gertrud Nothmann, his two sons and Gertrud's mother followed him in 1939. Gertrud's mother died in exile in 1941.

After the invasion of the Wehrmacht, the family was arrested at the beginning of May 1943 and taken to the Westerbork concentration camp via the Vught concentration camp. 
On 4 September 1943, they were deported to Theresienstadt and on 16 October 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were all murdered.

Only one daughter from Friedrich Nothmann's first marriage, Hildegard, was able to escape to England.