Stolpersteine Budapester Straße 39-41

These stolpersteine in the pavement commemorate two parents and their daughter.

Here lived
Dr. Richard Jacobson, born 2 April 1876
Käthe Jacobson née Sandmann, 26 April 1892.
They were on 29 Nov 1942 deported to Auschwitz and murdered.

Here lived
Ingeborg Jacobson, 19 March 1915,
on 9 December 1942 deported to Auschwitz and murdered.

Dr. Richard Jacobson and Käthe Sandmann married and had a daughter, Ingeborg Jacobson. Ingeborg converted to Christianity and was confirmed in 1930 in the Berlin Christ Church.

On Progromnacht (9 Nov 1938), Dr. Richard Jacobson was protected from deportation because he was considered a privileged Jew – he had been awarded the Iron Cross in WW1.

Ingeborg worked as the head secretary in Pastor Gruber’s office until it closed in 1940. She tried to emigrate to the USA via Switzerland, but the Swiss refused her entry. She then took a course in order to be ordained as a lay church worker wherever she was. She was put into forced labor at the Fripa-Werken paper processing factory in Berlin-Treptow. Ingeborg and her parents were picked up for deportation on 29 November 1942, but Ingeborg’s company claimed her back. Nevertheless, she was deported just 10 days later.

Ingeborg Jacobson was one of 11 staff of Father Grüber. Denksteine were placed for each of them at the request of the Protestant Relief Agency in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. These memorials are not part of Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine art project: the requested text did not fit with his project vision, and he suggested an alternative, which became "Densteine."

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Anne Palmer
• Photos: OTFW
• Berlin Online, Denksteine Jacobsen
• DeAcademic.com: Ingeborg Jacobson