Amalie Anni Jastrow née Spandau

Amalie Anni Spandau was born on January 3, 1898 in Eberswalde. Her parents were the merchant Paul Spandau (born 1870) and the accountant Emma, née Friedländer (born 1870). Anni had two brothers:

• Ludwig Rudolf (born 1901), who married Elli Hedwig Stietz in 1935
• Günther Leo (born 1904), who married Hildegard Schayer in 1937. Their daughter Monika was born in 1937.

Amalie Anni was a secretary and lived with her parents at Luisenufer 32 (now Legiendamm ) in Kreuzberg. She married her cousin, the businessman Wilhelm Jastrow , on May 26, 1928 in the Kreuzberg registry office . In 1931/32, Anni and Wilhelm Jastrow were registered in the Jewish address book at Luisenufer 32. Anni's father Paul Spandau died in February 1933 at the age of 63 in the Charité . 
From 1936, "Willi Jastrow , representative" can be found at Kaiser-Wilhelm Str.19 in Tempelhof/Schöneberg. Unfortunately, the stumbling blocks for Anni and Wilhelm Jastrow were mistakenly laid by the Schöneberg Initiative in the street of the same name in Lankwitz and not in Tempelhof, where, according to all documents, the couple's apartment was located.

After Hitler and the National Socialists came to power in 1933, life for the Jewish population deteriorated drastically. Exclusion, harassment, hatred and anti-Jewish laws dominated life. Anni's husband Wilhelm was 
arrested on June 14, 1938 during the mass arrests of the " Action Work-Shy Reich " and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp . These mass arrests of the "Action Work-Shy Reich" in the spring and summer of 1938 were new to the Nazi persecution policy in their systematic and nationwide form. They were directed against people whom the police and the employment and welfare offices accused of refusing jobs and not wanting to work. Even minor previous convictions were enough to attract the attention of the criminal police. On this basis, thousands of Jews were deported to concentration camps for forced labor in June 1938. 
On August 4, 1938, Wilhelm Jastrow was released from Buchenwald. 
Anni and her husband Willi fled to Brazil in October 1938 and reached Chile via Uruguay. In 1939, their German citizenship was revoked . Anni Jastrow died on September 9, 1989 in her new homeland of Chile. Her husband Willi had already died on September 11, 1977.

Anni Jastrow’s brothers were also able to escape from Germany:

• His brother, Ludwig Rudolf, lived at Oranienstrasse 130a in Kreuzberg in 1939. He and his wife managed to escape to the USA.
• In 1939, his brother Günter Leo lived with his family at Zähringer Str. 33 in Wilmersdorf, and most recently at Mommsenstr. 65 in Charlottenburg. The family managed to escape to Switzerland at the beginning of 1940.

Wilhelm's sister Käthe married Willy Basta in 1926 and had a daughter, Gertrud Rosalie Ulrike, who was later called Shoshana , in the same year. The family lived at Attila Street 114. 
In 1934 the family emigrated to Palestine.

Wilhelm Jastrow’s mother Ernestine and his sisters Alice and Trude could not escape from Germany and were murdered in the Holocaust :

• Mother Ernestine Jastrow , née Spandau, lived with her daughter Alice at Maybachufer 46 in Neukölln in 1939. 
  On August 17, 1942, the 81-year-old was deported to Theresienstadt, where she died a few days later on September 3, 1942. In the transport list, her address was recorded as Urbanstr. 71 at Marcus's.
• Alice married Max Krisch in 1920. In 1939 she lived at Maybachufer 46 in Neukölln. On January 12, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered. In the list for the 26th transport to the East, her address was recorded as Urbanstr. 71.
• The widowed Trude was deported to Riga and murdered on November 27, 1941.