| First Name | Mathilde |
|---|---|
| Family Name | Hartogsohn (later married Steinmann, after the Second World War married Bolle) |
| Date of Birth | 12/03/1916 |
| Birthplace/Place of Residence | Emden |
| Residence in „Heim Isenburg“ | 03/24/1937 - 06/24/1937 |
| Departure to | Frankfurt am Main |
| Profession | Student/Intern |
| Deportation/Escape | Deported from Amsterdam to the Westerbork transit camp on 09/29/1943, to the Theresienstadt ghetto on 04/05/1944, to the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz on 05/18/1944, to the concentration camp Christian city on 07/07/1944 , to the concentration camp Bergen -Belsen on 06/04/1945; Survivor |
| Date of Death/Place of Death | - |
At the age of 20 Mathilde Hartogsohn lived in the Home of the Jewish Women’s Association in Neu-Isenburg for three months in the spring of 1937. She was the daughter of Hermann Hartogsohn and his wife Clara, born Elbe. After the secondary school leaving certificate Mathilde was trained in one of the hospitals donated by the Rothschild family in Frankfurt am Main for “Rötenlaborantin” and masseuse.
Probably shortly before the war began, Mathilde fled from Germany to the Netherlands. In Amsterdam she married Otto Steinmann on 27 February 1941. After the the invasion of the German Wehrmacht on the neutral country she fell into the clutches of the Gestapo. Together with her husband, she was kidnapped on September 29, 1943, at the Westerbork transit camp.
This was when an odyssey through several Nazi concentration camps began for them. In April 1944, she was deported to the continuity and concentration camp in Theresienstadt, from there on May 18, 1944, to the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.
Mathilde Steinmann belonged to a group of 500 women who were moved from the camp of Auschwitz to the newly built subcamps of Groß-Rosen west of the Christian town (Krzystkowice) in the lower Lusatia in July 1944. The women had to work for the GmbH for the recycling of chemical products as well as the ammunition factory Ulm of Deutsche Dynamit AG (formerly Alfred Nobel & co.) and do forced labor.
With the further penetration of the Red Army to the West in the spring of 1945, the Nazi camp got rid of the Christian city and sent the women on the Death March. On April 6, 1945, the group reached the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, where Mathilde Steinmann was released after one and a half years of concentration camp on April 15, 1945. Her husband died on March 24, 1945, in the Schwarzheide, a subcamp of concentration camp Sachsenhausen. After the Second World War Mathilde married Godfried Bolle. The couple lived in Amsterdam.
Sources: Stadtarchiv Neu-Isenburg; Hessian State Archives; http://www.sjoa-drenthe.nl
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