- Location
- Genthiner Straße 14
- Historical name
- Genthiner Straße 5a
- District
- Tiergarten
- Stone was laid
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08 September 2022
- Born
- 30 June 1872 in Berlin
- Escape
- 1933 Holland
- Interned
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von 10 February 1942 to bis 20 January 1943 in Vugt-Hertogenbosch
- Interned
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von 20 January 1943 to bis 15 February 1944 in Westerbork
- Deportation
- on 15 February 1944 to Bergen-Belsen
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Murdered
- 06 January 1945 in Bergen-Belsen
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Stolperstein Ellen Citroen, Foto: Initiative
Ellen Philippi was born on June 30, 1872 in Berlin to Louis and Pauline Philippi. She had five siblings.
She married Hendrik Roelof Citroen, who came from a Dutch family active in the textile industry. He had moved from Amsterdam to Berlin and they established a home at Derfflinger Strasse 21, where Ellen Citroen also ran a soup kitchen for the poor. Four children were born: the artist Paul Citroen, Chanan Cidor (Hans Citroen), Ilse Luise Ledermann, and Charlotte Citroen. The family lived at Derfflinger Strasse 21. Hendrik Roelof Citroen died in October 1932 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee.
After the Nazis seized power, Ellen Citroen, like other family members, fled to the Netherlands, where she found temporary protection. After the German troops invaded, she was interned in the Vught-Hertogenbosch and Westerbork camps. She was deported from Westerbork to Bergen-Belsen in February 1944, where she was murdered on January 8, 1945.
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