Jacqueline Morgenstern
Jacqueline Morgenstern was born on May 26, 1932.
She came from Paris and went to the Jewish school in Belleville.
Jacqueline only lived to be twelve years old.
Jacqueline Morgenstern was the daughter of a hairdresser on Place de la République in Paris, Charles Morgenstern.
The family came from Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania, and migrated to France after World War I.
When the German Wehrmacht occupied Paris in 1941, the Morgenstern brothers were forced to hand over their business to someone of non-Jewish origin.
Charles fled to Marseille, followed by his wife and Jacqueline.
When the Germans invaded Marseille looking for Jews, the Morgensterns were betrayed and arrested by the French police.
Jacqueline’s mother died in Auschwitz.
Her father Charles was sent to Dachau in January 1945 in an open freight wagon, and survived to see the liberation. Sadly, he died May 1945.
On April 20th 1979, Jacqueline’s cousin Henri Morgenstern attended the memorial service for victims of the BullenhuserDamm murders.
Together with Phillippe Kohn, the brother of victim Georges-Andre Kohn, Henri was a founding member of the Children of Bullenhuser Damm Association, and was involved in the prosecution of the perpetrators.
The street Jacqueline-Morgenstern-Weg in Hamburg-Burgwedel is named after Jaqueline.