Franziska Steinitz
DR.FRANZISKA STEINITZ was born on April 5, 1875 in Rosenberg in Upper Silesia. She was the daughter of Rosalie Steinitz née Boehm and Israel Steinitz. Her father was a notary. She had eight siblings. In 1937 she fled to Freiburg with her brother PAUL STEINITZ. She was a Romance scholar and a well-known translator of prose. She translated Maupassant, Mistral and Montesquiou from French, among others. Montesquieu even wrote a poem for his translator in 1912.
The siblings lived here in what was then Kunigundenstraße, but from 1939 it was called Schönererstraße, today Prinz-Eugen-Straße.
FRANZISKA STEINITZ was arrested together with her brother PAUL STEINITZ on October 22, 1940 and deported to the Gurs internment camp/concentration camp on the northern edge of the Pyrenees. FRANZISKA STEINITZ was murdered in Gurs on January 2, 1942 due to the terrible and inhumane conditions that prevailed in the camp. Her grave in the camp cemetery is number 949. FRANZISKA STEINITZ was 66 years old.
When the STUMBLING BLOCKS were laid in January 2003, it was not possible to get the electricity needed to run the machines from the residents of the house on Prinz-Eugen-Straße, even though the front door was opened. It was only friendly neighbors who donated electricity, and the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig was able to start work on laying the two STUMBLING BLOCKS.
DR. FRANZISKA STEINITZ was born on April 5, 1875 in Rosenberg, Upper Silesia. She was the daughter of Rosalie Steinitz (born Boehm) and Israel Steinitz. Her father was a notary. She had eight brothers and sisters. In 1937 she fled to Freiburg together with her brother PAUL STEINITZ. She was a novelist and a well-known translator of prose. She translated from French Maupassant, Mistral and Montesquieu, others among. Montesquieu even wrote a poem for his translator in 1912.
The siblings lived here in what was then Kunigundenstraße, but from 1939 it was called Schönererstraße, today Prinz-Eugen-Straße.
FRANZISKA STEINITZ was arrested together with her brother PAUL STEINTZ on October 22, 1940 and deported to the internment camp Gurs on the northern edge of the Pyrenees. FRANZISKA STEINITZ was murdered in Gurs on January 2, 1942 by the terrible and inhumane conditions that prevailed in the camp. Her grave in the camp cemetery is number 949. FRANZISKA STEINITZ was 66 years old.
During the laying of the STOLPERSTEINE in January 2003 it was not possible to get the necessary electricity for the operation of the machines from the house residents, there in the Prinz-Eugen-Straße, although the front door was opened. Only friendly neighbors donated electricity, and the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig could begin with the work for the laying of the two STOLPERSTEINs.