First Name | Ruth |
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Family Name | H. |
Date of Birth | 1920 |
Birthplace/Place of Residence | Frankfurt am Main |
Residence in „Heim Isenburg“ | 05/30/1938 - 11/21/1938 |
Departure to | Frankfurt am Main |
Profession | Baby Care intern |
Deportation/Escape | Fled to England in March 1939, from Liverpool to New York in May 1940 |
Date of Death/Place of Death | - |
Ruth H. graduated in 1938 from a six-month internship as a baby nurse at the Jewish woman’s Federation in Neu-Isenburg. She was born in Frankfurt am Main. Her father, a businessman, was co-owner of a company on the shopping street "Zeil."
Ruth H. attended the philanthropist from 1926 to 1936 at Frankfurt. According to her statements, she was planning to make it to the high school and to study chemistry. After the adoption of the Nuremberg Race Act in 1935, she had to recognize however that in the Nazi Germany was no prospect of a study and an academic career for them. Due to that, she finished her schooling with the secondary school leaving Certificate and took a practical profession. First, she graduated from a course at the Jewish domestic science school in Frankfurt, before she moved in April 1937 to London, to become a nurse. When she wanted to visit her parents in Germany in April 1938 after completion of theoretical training, the German authorities moved her passport in Bremen at the exit of the vessel. Thus she could not return to England, to complete her education with an internship. This served them while in the home "Isenburg," to the desired degree that not helped her, however.
As the former head of the new Isenburg home, Helene Krämer, confirmed in 1957, Ruth H. was forced to leave the establishment in 1938 after Kristallnacht:
"I the undersigned, Helene Krämer, formerly Isenburg near Frankfurt [...], do hereby declare the following information under oath: during the Period I work as the head of theJewish children's home while my work as head of the Jewish children's home in Isenburg near Frankfurt, Ruth p., b. H.came in August 1938 in our home came to her training as a quit child sister." On November 10, 1938, our homes have been destroyed by arson. Hence Ruth P. Could no longer continue working with us"
In March 1939, Ruth had the chance to leave with a permit to work, from Germany to England as a domestic worker. She remained in England until May 1940 and then emigrated to the United States.: