Benjamina Goldschmidt, née Strauß
Born in Geroda on February 13, 1874.,
Deported from Munich to Theresienstadt on June 24, 1942, from there she was brought to Treblinka on September 19, 1942.

Benjamina Strauß was born in Geroda near Bad Brückenau on February 13, 1874.

There is not much information about Benjamina Strauß to be found. She married Simon Goldschmidt, the brother of her sister´s husband. Her sister was called Regina. Simon Goldschmidt was a tailor and probably lived with his wife in Geroda.

The Memorial Book of Munich´s Jews records their moving in to the retirement home of the Jewish religious community on January 15, 1940. Both were deported to Theresienstadt 1942 and from there displaced to Treblinka on September 19, 1942.

At that time Benjamina Goldschmidt was sixty-eight years old.

Source Material:

Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (Hessian Record-Office Marburg),
Gedenkbuch. Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden
unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933 – 1945
(Memorial Book. Victims of the Persecution of the Jewish People
during the Nazi Terror Regime in Germany 1933 – 1945)

Gedenkbuch der Münchner Juden (Memorial Book of Jews in Munich)