Frieda Blumenfeld was born on 24 August 24, 1911, in Momberg near Marburg. She grew up there after the death of her mother, along with four brothers, father, and his second wife, Ida. After completing the elementary school, Frieda attended a trade school in Kassel. Afterward, she was trained as a shop assistant at a Jewish textile merchant in Witzenhausen, where she remained active after her education. Later Frieda Blumenfeld worked in the business of the Spier family in Neukirchen near Kassel. The business owners were probably related to Frieda because Sida Spier was born as Blumenfeld. In 1937 Frieda lived in Frankfurt, where she was employed in a household.

In the period from May 27/29 1941 until November 20/21 1941, Frieda graduated from her six months of internship from “Heim Isenburg." Only three weeks after she returned from Neu-Isenburg to Kassel, the 30-year-old girl was deported together with her elder brother Julius and stepmother Ida to the Riga ghetto. On August 9, 1944, Frieda Blumenfeld was then deported to the Stutthof concentration camp. This was her last sign of life came from.

Frieda Blumenfeld’s brothers, Max and Alfred, survived the Shoah. They emigrated to Israel or South Africa.

Sources: Stadtarchiv Neu-Isenburg; Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden; Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 – 1945 (Bundesarchiv - National Archive); Wolfgang Scheffler/Diana Schulle(Bearb.): Buch der Erinnerung. Die ins Baltikum deportierten deutschen, österreichischen und tschechoslowakischen Juden: