Brigitte Klawanski was one and a half years old when she was accepted at the Home of the Jewish Women's Association in Neu-Isenburg at the end of July 1938. She came from Merseburg via the Saale River to Neu-Isenburg.

In 1939, the Nazi authorities took Brigitte's grandfather who was born in Vilnius and was listed as a stateless citizen with no right of residence in Germany. He and his three children, including Brigitte's mother, were able to obtain an immigration permit to move to Shanghai. His granddaughter, the two-year-old Brigitte stayed in "Heim Isenburg."

Brigitte was sent back to Halle on March 16, 1942, when "Heim Isenburg" was closed. Since she had no relatives there, the Jewish community received her and gave her under the care of Nurse Anna Heymann.

Brigitte lived only a quarter of a year in the household of her foster mother in the ghetto house in Hindenburg Straße 34. Following the order of the Gestapo, Anna Heymann had to take the nursing child with her when she was deported from Halle to the Sobibór extermination camp on June 1. There, both were murdered in the gas chamber on the day of their arrival, June 3, 1942. Brigitte Klawanski was five years old at the time of her death.

Sources: Stadtarchiv Neu-Isenburg; Volkhard Winkelmann an student project "Juden in Halle", Südstadt-Gymnasiums Halle; Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 – 1945 (Bundesarchiv - National Archive)

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