Despite being rescued by a Kindertransport, Eva ultimately died in a concentration camp.
Born on February 13, 1929, in Fulda.
Eva Lehmann grew up with her parents, Leo and Anna, and her younger siblings, Adolf and Clara, at Heinrichstrasse 15. She attended the Jewish school and participated in services at the synagogue, which was destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. After the National Socialists seized power, fear dominated daily life.
Children's Transport to Belgium
During the November Pogroms of 1938, Eva fled school to escape the stone-throwing and violence. Her father was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1939, her parents managed to secure two of the coveted places for Eva and Adolf on a children’s transport to Belgium. There, Eva lived with foster families and in children’s homes. After the German invasion of Belgium in 1940, she returned to Fulda. She found some support within her family, despite the immediate proximity of the Gestapo branch office.
The End of a Family
From September 1941, all Jews aged six and older were required to wear the Star of David, including Eva. On December 8, 1941, the Germans deported the family of five to the Riga Ghetto. Her father died in 1942 in the Salaspils camp; her mother, brother, and sister were murdered in Auschwitz in 1943. Eva was left alone. In 1944, she was deported to the Stutthof concentration camp and murdered there at the age of 15.
Address in Fulda:
Heinrichstr. 15
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