Else & Martha Ruhemann
Dedication: "With this book you've already had three bad experiences: through the Objectes treachery three times it's already been stolen from you. That they may stay in the land and not sail into the distance any more. Now guard the "Icelandic fishermen" like your own eye. In love to Martha on November 15, 1903 dedicated by her faithful sister Else."
Martha Ruhemann was born on 15 November 1867 in Berlin. She worked as a language teacher and lived in Berlin, from at least 1921 together with her younger sister Else (born 8 August 1872 in Berlin) at Ansbacher Str. 37. Martha Ruhemann was taken to the collection camp at Levetzowstr. 7/8 in Berlin in October 1941 and deported to the Litzmannstadt Ghetto on 18 October 1941. She was murdered there on January 20, 1942.
Else Ruhemann worked as a stenotypist and correspondent. At the end of April 1931 she was admitted to the "Berolina" sanatorium, from where she was transferred to the Wittenau sanatoriums in the same year. She died there on 20 January 1939 and was buried four days later at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee.
Their brother Arnold Ruhemann was born on 28 February 1869 in Berlin. He became a chemist, lived from at least 1907 to 1925 in Salzbergen near Lingen and moved to Duisburg in 1925. He died on January 22, 1937 at the Jewish Hospital Berlin and was buried on January 27, 1937 at the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee.
The parents of Martha, Arnold and Else were Wilhelm Wolff Ruhemann (1831 Tempelburg - 1907 Berlin), a writer and Fanny Loebell (1840 Berlin - 1876 Berlin).
The books of Else & Martha Ruhemann were acquired by the Berlin City Library in 1943 as part of a purchase of ~40,000 books that had been looted from the Jews of Berlin.
The marks of provenance and objects connected to Else & Martha Ruhemann are listed here (Else) and here (Martha) in the co-operative provenance database Looted Cultural Assets.
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