Doris Flaschner, geb. Treumann

Doris Treumann was born in Bamberg on October 31, 1895, the daughter of the hop dealer Karl Treumann and his wife Therese. She grew up with her brother Martin, who was three years older. Nothing is known about her childhood and adolescence.
On April 30 1919, she married the lawyer Dr. Martin Flaschner, who was 13 years her senior. Their daughter Hanna was born in Nuremberg on April 6, 1920, followed by their son Karl Heinrich, who was born on August 28, 1924 in Munich, where the family had been living since 1921. To begin with, Doris Flaschner lived with her husband and children at Herzogstrasse 58, and then, from 1927, at Haimhauserstrasse 18 (today 2). In January 1933, her widowed mother Therese Treumann came to live with the family.
The lives of the Jewish family changed radically with the Nazi seizure of power. The everyday life of Doris Flaschner will have been marked by many cares and by the many kinds of harassment that accompanied the anti-Semitic measures of the Nazis. The premature death of her husband Martin, who died on March 14, 1934 at the age of 51 after a short illness, must certainly also have been a heavy blow for the family, as was the death of her mother Therese just under two years later.
Doris Flaschner’s son Heinrich was able to celebrate his bar mitzvah in Munich’s Main Synagogue on August 7, 1937. Her daughter Hanna underwent a hakhshara, an agricultural traineeship in preparation for emigration to Palestine, from May 1937 on a farm in Gross-Breesen near Breslau. Heinrich later decided to undergo a hakhshara as well. Doris Flaschner and her son Heinrich were forced to leave their flat at Haimhauserstrasse 18 in December 1939 and were quartered at Goethestrasse 23 and ten months later at Landwehrstrasse 6, where they had to live in “Jew flats” in very cramped conditions. The last place they lived in Munich was the old people’s home of the Jewish community at Mathildenstrasse 8, which was also a mass accommodation. Neither Doris Flaschner nor her son Heinrich managed to escape extermination. The Secret State Police (Gestapo) deported them on April 4, 1942 to the Piaski Ghetto, along with Anneliese Treumann, the daughter of Doris Flaschner’s brother. All trace of them is lost in Piaski. Hanna Flaschner managed to emigrate and later lived in Australia. Doris Flaschner’s brother Martin also survived the Shoah.( Text: B. Hutzelmann; translation: C. Hales; editor: Ch. Fritsche)