Owner of J. Reichenbach at Breite Straße 7 and the woman whose initial remained above its windows.
Jeanette was born at Ebergötzen, in the Göttingen district, on 26 October 1859. She married Salomon Gustav Reichenbach in Göttingen on 4 June 1883. The marriage record names her parents, Abraham Rosenbaum and Bertha née Grunsfeld, and names Gustav as the son of Jacob and Helene Reichenbach of Halberstadt—placing Jeanette and the Wernigerode household within the same documented family line.
Jeanette’s dowry helped establish the business at Breite Straße 7. A modern regional history based on Wernigerode records emphasizes that she—not Gustav—owned the shop and remained its proprietor. The great J. Reichenbach sign across the façade carried her initial, and she continued sitting at the till into the 1930s.
The Federal Archives records Jeanette in Wernigerode and, from 15 November 1941, in Berlin-Zehlendorf. Berlin’s Stolpersteine biography for Normannenstraße 2 places her in that house with members of both the Halberstadt and Wernigerode branches.
She was deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on Transport I/64 on 11 September 1942 and died six weeks later. The ghetto death notice records “enteritis acuta”; such entries must be read within the conditions of starvation, dehydration and untreated illness imposed there.
Sources
Records and testimony
- Wernigerode address books
- Stadtarchiv Göttingen marriage record C 39 Nr. 164
- Peter Lehmann, Harz-Forschungen XXXVI (2023)
- Bundesarchiv Gedenkbuch en1138499
- Holocaust.cz victim record 28233 and Transport I/64
- Theresienstadt death notice
- Berlin Stolpersteine biography for Normannenstraße 2
- Wernigerode Stolperstein