Memorial Signs for Marjem and Chaim Both, and Malwine Porsche,
Ruppertstraße 5

On Sunday, 10 November 2024, a memorial service for Marjem and Chaim Both, and Malwine Porsche will take place at the LUISE cultural centre. Afterwards, their Memorial Signs will be placed at their former homes in Lindwurmstraße and Akademiestraße.

Marjem (Maria) and Chaim (Joachim) Both owned a house at Lindwurmstraße 185 and lived in one of the apartments there. Their daughter Fanny emigrated to the USA with her husband Fritz Kammer in August 1938. During the so-called ‘Kristallnacht’ on 9 November 1938, the SA stormed the Boths' house and shot Chaim Both in cold blood. His son Max was arrested. The Boths' business and house were forcibly expropriated. Max Both was able to emigrate to England in 1939, his mother Marjem Both was deported to Kaunas in Lithuania in November 1941 and murdered there.

Malwine Porsche was the aunt of Fritz Kammer, Fanny Both's husband. After Malwine Porsche's husband, the painter Professor Otto Maria Porsche, died in 1931, she moved to Akademiestraße 19. In July 1942, Malwine Porsche was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, where she was murdered by the SS.