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Lina Fleischmann geb. Schohl

LINA (Karolina Bertha) FLEISCHMANN, née SCHOHL, was born on December 25, 1881 in Pirmasens. She later married PROF. DR. SIGMUND FLEISCHMANN, with whom she had a daughter.

LINA FLEISCHMANN was arrested in Freiburg during the Nazi era and deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on August 22, 1942 via Stuttgart, together with five other Freiburg women from the „Jewish House“ at Ludwigstrasse 32, with transport XIII/1-997.

There she met Else Pripis again, who had been deported from Cologne to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. LINA FLEISCHMANN had already met this young woman during the Nazi terror in Emmendingen. There, on LINA FLEISCHMANN’s behalf, she had sewn the trousseau for Fleischmann’s daughter, who had managed to escape from the Nazis. LINA FLEISCHMANN describes Else Pripis, née Geismar, who was a student at the Jewish compulsory school in Freiburg before her apprenticeship as a seamstress and now lives in Jerusalem, as a very likeable and warm-hearted woman.

However, she was already very ill when she was deported from the Theresienstadt concentration camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp on May 16, 1944 on transport Ea 1936 (a so-called „old people’s transport“). Else Pripis therefore doubts that the elderly woman was even able to survive the deportation. The official date of her death is December 31, 1944. She would have been 63 years old then.

However, it is more likely that LINA FLEISCHMANN died during the deportation and that her body was burned in the crematorium ovens immediately after arrival in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Or she was murdered in the gas chambers immediately after her arrival at the concentration camp.

LINA (Karolina Bertha) FLEISCHMANN née SCHOHL, was born on December 25, 1881 in Pirmasens. She was later married to PROF. DR. SIGMUND FLEISCHMANN, with whom she had a daughter.

LINA FLEISCHMANN was arrested in Freiburg during the Nazi era and deported to the concentration camp Theresienstadt via Stuttgart on August 22, 1942, together with five other Freiburg women from the „Juden-Haus“ Ludwigstraße 32, on transport XIII/1-997.

There she again met Else Pripis, who had been deported from Cologne to the concentration camp Theresienstadt. This young woman had already met LINA FLEISCHMANN during the Nazi terror in Emmendingen. There, on LINA FLEISCHMANN’s behalf, she had sewn the trousseau for Fleischmann’s daughter, who had managed to escape from the Nazis. Else Pripis, née Geismar, who before her apprenticeship as a seamstress was a student at the Jewish compulsory school in Freiburg and now lives in Jerusalem, describes LINA FLEISCHMANN as a very sympathetic and warm-hearted woman.

However, she had already been very ill when she was deported on May 16, 1944 from the concentration camp Theresienstadt with the transport Ea 1936 (a so-called „old people’s transport“) to the concentration camp Auschwitz. Else Pripis therefore doubts that the elderly woman could have survived the deportation alive at all. Officially, the date of her death is December 31, 1944. She would have been 63 years old then.

However, it is more likely that LINA FLEISCHMANN died during the deportation and that her body was burned in the crematorium ovens immediately after her arrival in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Or she was murdered in the gas chambers immediately after her arrival at the concentration camp.