Merwedeplein 19

When Franziska Heilbron moved from Hamburg to Amsterdam in February 1939 to live with the family of her daughter Ilse Karlsberg (see www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de), she thought she was safe. The security did not last long, in 1943 the transport to Sobibor and her death.

Franziska Fröhlich was born on November 25, 1877 in Mainz. Her parents were the businessman Hermann Simon Fröhlich, born in Ulrichstein (Vogelbergkreis/Hessen) in 1844, and Rosalie Fröhlich, née Lahnstein, born in Jostein in 1848, her siblings were Manfred (1880) and Siegfried Ferdinand (1885).
On August 18, 1899, she married Simon Heilbron in Mainz, who was born in Hagen/Westfalen on September 26, 1868 and had lived in Hamburg since 1875, initially as a schoolboy and from 1888 as an apprentice businessman. Ruth Meissner, granddaughter of Franziska Heilbron: "He and his 2 or 3 sisters were orphaned at a young age, I don't know how or why he came to Hamburg. He probably came after the death of his parents. Just like my grandmother (Franziska Heilbron) I don't know. The company he was involved in was a state lottery."

Simon Heilbron initially lived in Wexstrasse with Philipp Fürst, it can be assumed that the Fürst family were his Hamburg relatives.

The company Philipp Fürst, Große Bleichen 82, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 20/26 and Große Bleichen 32 (July 1, 1935), acted as one of the main collectors of the Hamburg State Lottery, it was founded in 1872 by the businessman Philipp Fürst. In 1895 Simon Heilbron joined the company where he had previously worked as a buyer. At that time there were many lottery companies in Hamburg, one of the slogans of the company Fürst was: "Fürstlich Glück can be reached 82 Große Bleichen."

Franziska and Simon Heilbron had three children, Ilse, born in 1900, Martin Philipp, born in 1903 and Alice, born in 1907. The family lived at 63 Hansastraße, where the children were born. Simon Heilbron died of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1920. Franziska Heilbron took over the company, after which the son Martin Philipp came on board. He ran the company until he fled to Paris in 1934, and his daughter Alice followed him there in 1936. Franziska Heilbron was again the owner of the Fürst company until 1936.

Franziska Heilbron closely associated with the family of her daughter Ilse. She married Bernhard Karlsberg and had three children, Rahel, Ruth and Walter. For the grandchildren, Franziska Heilbron was Zi's beloved grandmother.

It was also Franziska Heilbron who discovered the arrest warrant against Bernhard Karlsberg in the "Government Gazette" on suspicion of high treason. Bernhard Karlsberg was a member of the Communist Party, which was banned in 1933, and also acted as legal adviser to political prisoners. On January 25, 1935, Bernhard Karlsberg fled by train to Basel. In Switzerland the children already lived in a children's home, while Ilse Karlsberg broke up the household in Hamburg in the summer and then followed her family.

Franziska Heilbron moved from Hansastraße 63 to Oderfelderstraße 25 in 1935. In 1936 she sold the company Philipp Fürst to follow her children to emigration. Their children Martin Philipp and Alice were still on the run in France, after the capture of Paris they stayed in the unoccupied part of France, after receiving an emergency visa they were able to escape from Marseille via Trinidad to New York.

Franziska Heilbron went to visit her daughter and her family in Amsterdam in February 1939. She had lost her considerable fortune as a result of the emigration arrangements. Ilse Karlsberg fled with her children Rahel, Ruth and Walter from Switzerland to Prague and two years later, on April 5, 1938, to Amsterdam. Bernhard Karlsberg had already obtained a residence and work permit there. So, as everyone said, there was a safe destination for Franziska Heilbron. Bernhard Karlsberg's parents, Moritz and Emilie Karlsberg, also came to Amsterdam in September 1938 (see www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de). Everyone lived on Merwedeplein, Franziska Heilbron at number 19.

After the German troops occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, Bernhard Karlsberg had to expect his arrest. He went underground, Ilse Karlsberg wanted to stay with children, mother and in-laws. On September 24, 1940, she was arrested as a hostage for her husband in her apartment and brought back to Hamburg, the apartment was closed.
Franziska Heilbron stayed behind. In the years that followed, she moved into several apartments in Amsterdam, which increasingly took on the character of hiding places. This is evident from the stories of the granddaughters

Source: https://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de

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