Stumbling stone for Helene and Johanna Schüratzki, née Mannheim

Johanna Mannheim, born on 17.09.1871 in Posen, married the 37-year-old "traveler" Gustav Schüratzki at the age of 22. In the following four years, their children Bernhard (January 25, 1895), Helene (March 30, 1897) and Adolf Elias (September 22, 1898) were born. In 1911, the family moved to Offenbach and lived at Taunusstraße 30. Gustav Schüratzki died in 1914 at the age of 57. The family was naturalized on 23 July 1919.

The 70-year-old was still living in Taunusstraße with her daughter Helene when the Nazis came for her in September 1942. Together with 99 other Jews from Offenbach, she was taken to a central collection point in Darmstadt. It was a transport of mostly elderly people who were promised a good life in the Czech town of Theresienstadt.
The deportation trains departed from Darmstadt's goods station on September 27, 1942 for the Theresienstadt camp. According to the Arolsen Archive (opens in a new tab), Johanna Schüratzki died there on December 31, 1942.

Daughter Helene was deported to Treblinka via Darmstadt three days later. Nothing is known about the date of her death.
Her brother Bernhard, his wife Minna and their daughter Ruth were also deported on the same day.