{"id":3510,"date":"2021-08-18T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stolpersteine-fuerstenwalde.de\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2022-06-13T23:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T21:23:05","slug":"hanna-ruth-klopstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stolpersteine-fuerstenwalde.de\/en\/hanna-ruth-klopstock\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanna Ruth Klopstock"},"content":{"rendered":"

born <\/strong>7 November 1924 in Berlin
\ndied <\/strong>10 April 2013 in Paris, France
\nhistorical former address <\/strong><\/span>
\nStumbling stone <\/strong>Dr.-Wilhelm-K\u00fclz-Stra\u00dfe 45 (planned)<\/span>
\nDate of stone-laying <\/strong>planned<\/p>\n

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Hanna Ruth Klopstock was born into a Jewish family in Berlin on 7 November 1924. She had an older brother named Werner, born on 24 July 1922. Her parents Hans and Frieda Klopstock (n\u00e9e B\u00fctow) moved to Ketschendorf near F\u00fcrstenwalde in 1931. The move from Berlin was necessitated by the relocation of her father Hans Klopstock\u2019s job as a chemist with the cable manufacturer \u201cDeutsche Kabel­werke AG\u201d. Until the father\u2019s death in Decem­ber 1938 in the Sach­sen­hausen concen­tration camp, the family had lived in a flat with garden at Dr.-Wilhelm-K\u00fclz-Stra\u00dfe 45. Later, Frieda and Hanna were forced to give up the flat and move to Berlin.<\/p>\n

As early as the end of 1938, Frieda had put her daughter on the French Comit\u00e9 Isra\u00e9lite\u2019s emigration list for Jewish children. This was an initiative by Germaine de Rothschild to help such children flee the \u201cThird Reich\u201d. On 20 March 1939, Hanna Ruth was able to leave Germany. Together with 130 other children, she arrived at the Ch\u00e2teau de La Guette near Paris on 23 March 1939.<\/p>\n

After the outbreak of World War II, the children were evacuated to Saint Briac in Brittany and in May 1940 to La Bourboule in the Auvergne. There, Hanna Ruth was given the opportunity to attend a vocational school for the hotel industry. She was eventually forced to flee to the Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes region in November 1942 using a forged identity card with the name of Arnette Ronier. In the municipality of Dieulefit, she initially worked in a boarding house and later in a tuberculosis clinic.<\/p>\n

In February 1944, Hanna Ruth moved to Seynes, where she helped her former teacher care for hidden children in a children\u2019s home. After the liberation of southern France in August 1944, she handed over her forged papers and was declared stateless. In 1946, she gave birth to her daughter Gis\u00e8le, whom she raised on her own. In 1949, Hanna Ruth was granted French citizenship.<\/p>\n

During her time in exile, Hanna Ruth tried to stay in contact with her family in the German Reich via a letter network operated from Switzerland by Elisabeth Luz, also known as Aunt Elisabeth, through the Aid Organisation of the Protestant Churches in Switzerland. The network organised letters to be sent between involuntarily separated Jewish family mem­bers. Through this network, Hanna Ruth ex­changed many letters with her mother Frieda and brother Werner Klopstock. Today, the letters are in the possession of her daughter, Gis\u00e9le Cailloux. Hanna Ruth Klop­stock died on 10 April 2013 in Paris, France. Both her mother and brother were murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.<\/p>\n