Stumbling Stones Rosenthaler Straße 48

These small, brass memorial plaques (Stolpersteine or stumbling stones) commemorate:
* Ida Buntmann-Weinstein, born 1892, fled to France, interned at Drancy, deported 1942, Auschwitz, murdered.
* Manja Buntmann-Weinstein, born 1925, fled to France, interned 31 July 1942 Pithiviers camp, deported, murdered in Auschwitz.

Ida Buntmann-Weinstein was Manja’s mother. Both were born in the same city, Königsberg, E. Prussia. Manja was a student until May, 1936. Nothing else was found about their lives before they fled to France.

From the information on their deportations, it can be assumed that they were living in the Paris area and were probably caught in the same mass roundup of foreign Jews that took place on 15-16 July. Some unmarried Jews were sent directly to Drancy, and others were taken by train to Pithiviers on 19-20 July. Perhaps Manja managed to remain free until the day of deportation. According to Yad Vashem, on 31 July 1942 both women were deported to Auschwitz: Train #908-1, carried 1,009 adults in cattle cars. (On orders from the German official in charge, children ages 2-13 were not to be deported then; their parents were forced to leave them behind.) The journey to Auschwitz took 3 nights and 2 days. On arrival, all deportees were selected for slave labor. Only 16 are known to have survived.

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