The Jewish
Community
of
Laupheim
and its
Annihilation
Book Page 393
NÖRDLINGER,
Kathi,
77 Kapellenstrasse
Translators:
Jennifer
Schocker,
Marco
Savario,
Diana
Maria
Paius;
Hi-Jung
Park
Supervisor: Dr. Robynne Flynn-Diez
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, Englischabteilung
KARL NEIDLINGER
Kathi Nördlinger,
single, born April 4, 1866 in Laupheim, deported August 19, 1942 to the
concentration camp Theresienstadt
and September 26, to the extermination camp Treblinka, murdered.
Kathi Nördlinger spent her entire life in Laupheim. It was only her last two
journeys that took her away from her birthplace; first with her deportation to
the concentration camp Theresienstadt, then to the extermination camp Treblinka.
Nevertheless, no information could be found about her, except some statistical
data and even those are not reliable.
The house at 77 Kapellen Street, in which she lived until 1937, cannot be found
on any city map or in any address
book because in the documents of that time the Kapellen Street ended with the
numbers 75 or 76.
Kathi was not related to the other Nördlinger families in the city. Her address
in 1938 was registered as 64 Ulmer Street, the mansion of the Bergmanns. It had
been empty since Marco and Else Bergmann had fled in early 1937 and the
governmental agencies were still in dispute over its usage. For Kathi, a room in
the mansion
may have been
a sort of temporary residence.
What is clear is that Kathi Nördlinger’s last address in Laupheim from July 1940
was Judenberg 2, where she was forced to live
in the compulsory housing of the former office of the rabbinate, the so-called
“Jewish home for the elderly”.
However, even here the gaps of information continue: She can neither be found on
any of the photographs from the rabbinate, nor is she mentioned in Lina
Wertheimer’s letters to Gideon. She is however, recorded in the list of those
who were deported to the concentration camp, Theresienstadt, on August 19, 1942.
Yet, the reason why she could not stay there and was displaced to Treblinka
extermination camp is the last of many question marks in the life of Kathi
Nördlinger, the most unknown of all the Holocaust victims of Laupheim.
Früher
Judenberg
2, heute
Synagogenweg
1: Das ehemalige Rabbinat,
von 1939 bis
1942
Sammel- und
Zwangsunterkunft, Zwischenstation in die
Vernichtungslager,
auch Kathi
Nördlingers letzte
Laupheimer
Adresse.
