Isabella Vorreuter (née Timar)

Isabella Friederike Vorreuter was born Isabella Timar in Raab on 11 May 1879. She was a singer. In 1911 in England, she married the merchant Emil Gottfried Vorreuter, who had been born in Herford on 18 June 1878. Their daughter Agnes Berta was born in London on 3 December 1911. The Vorreuter family then moved to Berlin, where their second daughter, Eva, was born on 27 September 1913. Emil Vorreuter was killed in action in 1918 during the First World War. Agnes Berta Vorreuter became a fashion illustrator and in 1933 in Berlin she married Heinz Günter Janson, who had been born on 27 March 1909 in Königsberg and worked as an assistant director in the film industry. Eva Vorreuter became a stenographer.

The Vorreuter family was persecuted as Jewish in Nazi Germany. Agnes Janson, née Vorreuter, managed to escape to the United States with her husband in 1938, thereby surviving the Shoah. Isabella Vorreuter also survived under circumstances that are still unclear and emigrated to the United States in 1946, where she lived until her death in 1966. Eva Vorreuter was deported from Berlin to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in October 1941. There, in December 1941, she married Arno Brasch, an office clerk who had been born in Eberswalde on 11 February 1909. Both were murdered in the Kulmhof extermination camp on 4 May 1942.

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