Hannah Reutlinger was born on May 18, 1901 as the daughter of Gustav and Mathilde Gutmann, née Koch, in Feuchtwangen. She lived with her parents and her four years younger brother in Webergasse 172 b (now number 4). The father ran a cattle trade since 1900 in Feuchtwangen, which the mother continued after the death of her husband in 1932. In 1937, Mathilde Gutmann also died.

Hannah lived in Berlin from December 1933 to August 1936. On January 15, 1937, she married the cattle trader Sally (Salli) Reutlinger, born on 6 September 1895 in Haigerloch, in Kirchheim unter Teck. The couple lived for a short time in Kirchheim unter Teck, and on October 14, 1937, they both entered Frankfurt am Main. Whether Sally Reutlinger lived in Frankfurt is uncertain, because in 1937 he emigrated to Belgium. There he fell into the catches of the German occupiers after the invasion of the German Wehrmacht on the neutral land. On September 11, 1942, via the French camp Drancy, he was deported to Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, where he was murdered.

The very pregnant Hannah stayed in the Home of the Jewish Women’s Association in Neu-Isenburg from August 25, 1937. On October 15, 1937, she gave birth to the twins, Gerd (Gert) and Rolf. The children's names are not found in the home’s list, Hannah, on the contrary, is still registered until November 4, 1937, as a home inhabitant.

Hannah Reutlinger moved to Frankfurt am Main from Neu-Isenburg. Shortly after the war began, she made an application on a carriage of goods removal at the Frankfurt Foreign Office for herself and her two sons. She wanted to flee to England. At that time her address was "Oberer Atzemer 19", her children were accommodated in Eschersheimer Landstraße 60 I., But the flight was no longer possible. At the beginning of April 1940 a letter from Hannah Reutlinger arrived at the Frankfurt exchange office:

"I would hereby like to kindly ask you, return my submitted lists, since my trip to England has become obsolete and there are currently no other emigration opportunities."

At that time Hannah Reutlinger lived in the Rhönstraße 29. Their last registered address was the Roseggerstraße 17. Her two sons were in the care of the association "Weibliche Fürsorge" in the Hans-Thoma-Straße 24.

On November 22, 1941, Hannah Reutlinger was deported together with her two children from Frankfurt to the Kovno ghetto. All the people who had been kidnapped from Frankfurt, including 59 children under ten years of age, were shot shortly after their arrival, on November 25, 1941 (Kingreen, Gewaltsam verschleppt, S. 366 ff.). Among the murdered were the 40-year-old Hannah Reutlinger and her four-year-old sons Gerd and Rolf. Hannah's brother, born in 1905, succeeded in escaping to the US in January 1939, together with his wife and daughter.

Sources: Stadtarchiv Neu-Isenburg; Hessian State Archives; Jewish Museum Frankfurt/Main; Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 – 1945 (Bundesarchiv - National Archive); https://www.platz-der-vergessenen-kinder.de (opens in a new tab)

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