Parkweg 51

Käte Liebert was born in Berlin on March 9, 1882. She married Max Liebert, who came from Graudenz in West Prussia (today: Grudziądz / Poland), initially living with her husband in Königsberg. There she gave birth to her first child, the son Werner, on July 22, 1903. In 1906 the family moved to Berlin, where Kätes Mann had taken over a company, which he developed into a prosperous company for bronze goods.

The family rented in Tempelhof at Hohenzollernkorso 70, today's Manfred-von-Richthofen-Straße 9, where their daughter Ilse was born on October 5, 1907.

Käte Liebert emigrated with her husband and two grown children to Almelo in the Netherlands on August 25, 1933, where the family lived at Parkweg 51. The company also had its headquarters there. The daughter Ilse married Fritz Kaufmann, who had emigrated from Göttingen around 1937/38, and then left her parents' house. She survived the National Socialist occupation of the Netherlands because her and her husband, with the help of friends, managed to live in hiding for over two years.

Kätes' son Werner continued to live with his parents, worked in the father's company until it was expropriated in the wake of the increasingly severe persecution of the Jews and he was called up to do forced labor. He decided to go into hiding, but first put his sick mother and frail father in a Catholic hospital, believing that they would be safe there.

But on April 9, 1943, Kate Liebert and her husband Max were deported from this hospital to the Westerbork transit camp. After a few weeks, Käte and Max Liebert were deported from there to the Sobibór extermination camp on May 18, 1943. There they were murdered on May 21, 1943.

Stolpersteine have also been placed in Berlin on the Manfred-von-Richthofen-Str. 9 for the Liebert family

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