At the age of 20 Brunhilde Federlein came the Home of the Jewish Women's Association in Neu-Isenburg for a 16-month internship. Here, she witnessed the pogrom in November 1938 and the beginning of the second world war. In December 1939, she returned to Frankfurt to her mother and her sister.

Brunhilde was born in 1918 in Munich. She had a brother and a twin sister, Anny, who was lame. The children lived with their mother, Auguste Federlein, 1931 in Frankfurt. The mother was the owner of several properties and houses in central Frankfurt and Frankfurt-Ostend. In 1938, Auguste Federlein had to sell all real estate. She lived in the Gaußstraße with her daughter Anny a little while. The last address of the two women in Frankfurt was the Israelite Hospital in the Gagernstraße 36.

Already in 1935, Auguste Federlein had tried emigration with her two daughters to Palestine. However, this failed, because the necessary certificates were missing. Brunhilde’s brother had emigrated to Palestine in 1933. After the pogrom in November 1938, Auguste undertook another attempt with her daughters to escape from Germany. The Customs Investigation Office Frankfurt am Main agreed to the request - after the total dispossession of the family - on February 23, 1939.

Auguste and Anny Federlein were no longer able to escape from Germany. Both were deported from Frankfurt in 1942. Brunhilde was luckier. The 22-year-old escaped with a ship to Palestine in 1940. Later, Brunhilde and her brother lived in Israel together with their families.

In Israel Brunhilde Federlein married Leo Arie Tannenbaum, originally from Kronach, Germany. They lived in Dvora, Israel.

Sources: Stadtarchiv Neu-Isenburg; Hessian State Archives: Brochure 'Stolpersteine in Kronach', 2018 (Informations: Horst Weil)