Entrance to the building at Trautenaustraße 5 in 2012, with nine Stolpersteine in the sidewalk out front.

The two newly unearthed death records (see earlier posts) of our Wohlgemuth ancestors are not earth-shattering since we already had the closely related burial information for Isaak and Betty. Yet we pick up all kinds of additional clues studying the official registry office death records, especially manifestations of the Nazi persecutions that Betty endured in her final weeks and days of life.

Here's the full translation. Comments to follow in another post. 

No. 331
Berlin-Wilmersdorf, 28 February 1942

Betty Sara Wohlgemuth, born Katz, Jewish, living in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Aschaffenburger Straße 6, died on February 26, 1942 at 5:30 pm in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Trautenaustrasse 5.
The deceased was born on 1 January 1875 in Kohlberg.
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown
The deceased was widowed, details can not be determined.

The record requests I put in last month with the Berlin Landesarchiv came through yesterday in the mail—copies of the official death records for Isaak and Betty Wohlgemuth. Hurrah!

The archive holds historical Berlin vital records that are at least 100 years old. More recent records such as the 1929 and 1942 deaths of our Wohlgemuth ancestors are held in the local registry offices in specific districts around the city. To locate these records, you need both the right district office (usually the residence location) and the date of the recorded event. 

A comprehensive database of Jewish surnames, marriages and marriage parties collected from historical civil marriage records for the city of Danzig is now live at Family History Machine.

It is a research tool for use of people working on an indexing project of the JewishGen Danzig Special Interest Group. Contact the adminstrator to request accsss. FHM hopes to make the data publicly available at a later date.