Sophie Jette Stern was born on January 9, 1874, fifth of the seven children of Lazarus Stern and his wife Sara, née Adler.
In 1904 she married the tradesman Julius Kahn. Her husband died only one year after their marriage.
Sophie Kahn attended the elementary school Heubach. Afterwards she made a professional education as a midwife. After the early death of her husband she took over his manufacture and notions store Julius Kahn in Heubach. In Oktober 1937, she and her daughter moved to Frankfurt.
While her daughter Bella managed to go into exile in the U.S., the planned emigration of Sophie Kahn failed. Related to the ninth big deportation from Frankfurt Sophie Kahn, at the age of sixty-eight, was deported to the transit and concentration camp Theresienstadt on September 15, 1942.
There she died about seven months later on April 5, 1943.
Source Material:
Standesamt Marburg (Register 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)
Zeitsprung. Kontor für Geschichte
Jewish Museum Frankfurt / Main