Alice Jaffé

Alice grew up in a well-to-do Jewish family. Her mother, Regina Portner (née Jaffé), was the daughter of Scheye David Jaffé, a wealthy lumber merchant. Alice's father, Heinrich Portner, was a banker from Warsaw. Alice married Georg Jaffé, who was her mother's younger brother. They lived together in Posen until Georg relocated the headquarters of the family lumber business to Berlin. They had two daughters, Hanni and Hilde. Not long after Georg died, Alice moved to the town of Dachau to be near her eldest daughter, Hanni, before relocating to Munich in 1936. In late 1941, she was placed with other Jews in a transit camp in Berg am Laim before being sent to Theresienstadt on July 17, 1942. In May 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Camp records indicate that she most likely died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau on July 11th or 12th of 1944.

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Jaffé, Alice

geborene Portner geboren am 30. April 1875 in Berlin / - / Stadt Berlin wohnhaft in Schweinfurt und München

Inhaftierungsort: 19. Dezember 1941, München, Sammellager Clemens - August - Str. 9

Deportationsziel: ab München 16. Juli 1942, Theresienstadt, Ghetto 18. Mai 1944, Auschwitz, Vernichtungslager

Munich in prison: 19.12.1941; brought via Munich to Theresienstadt Concentrationcamp on July, 17 1942; deported to Auschwitz on May 18, 1944. Killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz on July 11th or 12th of 1944.