Editha Badasch née Schuber

Editha Schuber was born in Berlin on 24th December 1902. She was the daughter of a businessman, Philipp Schuber and his wife, Johanna née Wisch. He had a leather shop in Kieler Strasse In Steglitz.

On 14th April 1922 Editha married Max Badasch who was an agent for a company that made sanitary products. The wedding took place in Berlin-Steglitz. On 27th February 1924 their son, Gerhard Manfred, was born in Countess-Rittberg Hospital in Lichterfelde. The family lived in Flemmingstrasse and Arndtstrasse in Steglitz.

It was in 1936 that Editha and her husband made the difficult decision to send their son to the United States with a children’s transport. After Gerhard arrived in the United States, he was sent to St. Louis, Missouri where he lived with foster parents and their children.

Editha’s parents, Philipp and Johanna Schuber, and her brother, Siegbert Schuber, succeeded in emigrating from Berlin to South Africa in 1939.

From 10th June 1940 until 27th February 1943 Editha Badasch, who had not worked prior to this time, was forced to labor in the factory of Siemens-Wernerwerk. In the spring of 1942 she and her husband moved from Rathstrasse 46 in Steglitz to Thomasiusstrasse 26 in Moabit into an apartment where they had to share with several other Jewish people.

In February 1943 Max and Editha Badasch were brought to an assembly camp where on 28th February they were given the Official Order Of The Confiscation Of Their Property. On the 1st of March 1943 Editha Badasch and her husband Max were deported to Auschwitz with the 31st transport to the east.