Klothilde Schindler née Stern

Klara Klothilde Stern was born on August 16, 1894 in Buttenwiesen , Bavaria. She was the daughter of the merchant Salomon Stern (born March 14, 1861 in Buttenwiesen ) and Rosa Rothschild (born March 21, 1865 in Worblingen / Konstanz). 
Klothilde had four siblings:

• Julius, born on March 4, 1896, married Karoline Schmid, born on February 4, 1900 in Fischach near Augsburg. The couple was deported from Munich on April 3, 1942 with 987 people from Bavaria, Upper Swabia, Lake Constance via Regensburg to Piaski , Ghetto .
• Elsa, born on March 19, 1900, married Max Baruch in 1932. Elsa and Max Baruch managed to escape to the USA in 1940. Max Baruch's son from his first marriage was able to escape with them. They initially lived in Booklyn , NY, later in Los Angeles, where Elsa died on August 1, 1982.
• Sophie, born on August 30, 1902, remained single and in 1939 was registered with an address in the Jewish Hospital at Iranische Str. 2 - 4. She was deported on August 15, 1942 from the freight station in Moabit with the 18th eastern transport to Riga with around 1,000 other people. After arriving on August 18, 1942, all the inmates were murdered 
  in the forests of Rumbula and Bikernieki .
• Mina, born on June 25, 1905, remained single. Minna had attended business school in Augsburg. She moved to Berlin in 1928 and ran a women's fashion store at Brunnenstrasse 98, which was liquidated in 1938. Minna lived at Brunnenstrasse 97, 2 HH I. Minna moved into the nurses' home of the Jewish Hospital and completed a nursing training course, which she completed with an exam on February 8, 1941. In the same year, she managed to leave Germany. With the support of her brother-in-law Max Baruch, she managed to escape to her sister Else in the USA.

Klothilde had been living in Berlin since January 6, 1919 - according to information from the Berlin police registration office on December 3, 1944 in response to a formal inquiry by the Secret State Police regarding her marital status. 
On September 21, 1919, she married the merchant Georg Schindler from Berlin, born on July 14, 1888 in Breslau, in her birthplace of Buttenweisen . The wedding was actually planned for September 19, 1919, according to the civil registry entry in the prepared marriage certificate. The newlyweds officially registered in Berlin on November 1, 1919 - a corresponding note can be found in the files of the Brandenburg State Archives, which were kept in the inheritance case of Friederike Wangenheim, née Weiß, the sister of Georg's mother Goldine , who died in 1940. 
However, the address at which Georg and Klothilde Schindler lived after their wedding could not be determined with certainty from the Berlin and Jewish address books. The couple remained childless. Klothilde's father Salomon Stern died on March 30, 1926 in Buttenwiesen . 
Klothilde's mother Rosa Stern, née Rothschild, died on May 7, 1935. In the census of May 17, 1939, Klothilde and her husband Georg Schindler were recorded as subtenants of Josef and Gertrud Friedländer in Berlin-Schöneberg, Willmanndamm 5, I. Perhaps Klothilde and Georg did not move in with the Friedländers entirely voluntarily. The Friedländers were deported together on January 25, 1942 on the 10th eastern transport, which consisted mainly of elderly people, from Berlin Grunewald to Riga, where the train arrived on January 30, 1942. Only a few of the 1,044 people survived the transport in open freight wagons in extreme cold.

In 1939, Klothilde and Georg moved to Albrechtstrasse 38, where they sublet a room from Georg's aunt Marianne Kaiser, née Weiss. The house was owned by Elfriede Blumenthal, another sister of Georg's mother Goldine , and his cousin Lilli Philipp, née Weiss, the daughter of Georg's uncle Adolf Weiss. Adolf Weiss had purchased the house and property in 1925, but died the following year. In 1939, ten members of the Weiss family lived permanently under one roof in this house. Over the years from 1938/39, fourteen more Jewish people were forcibly housed in this house. 
On March 1, 1943, Klothilde and Georg Schindler had to go from Albrechtstrasse 38 to the assembly camp at Levetzowstrasse 8 in Moabit. 
On March 2, 1943, Klothilde Schindler, née Stern, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on the 32nd East transport. On the transport list available at the Arolsen Archives, she is listed as number 1199. A total of 1756 people were deported on this train. 
Her husband Georg Schindler was deported to Auschwitz on March 3, 1943 on the 33rd East transport. There were 1726 people on this transport.

Klothilde's sister Else Baruch submitted memorial pages to Yad Vashem in memory of Klothilde and Georg Schindler. At the time, Else assumed that her sister and brother-in-law had been murdered in the Dachau concentration camp .