Minna Bergas

Minna Bergas was born Minna Feilchenfeld on 22 July 1869 in Berlin. Her parents were Michael David Feilchenfeld (ca. 1834-1916) and Agnes Feilchenfeld née Meyer (born ca. 1845, date of death unknown). Minna had two siblings, her older brother Hugo (born 1866) and her younger sister Alice (born 1879). In 1892 Minna Feilchenfeld married Hermann Bergas, who had been born in 1854 in Berlin. The couple had two sons, both of whom died at a very young age: Moritz Bergas (1893-1913) and Walter Bergas (1897-1917). Hermann Bergas died in Berlin in 1918. Minna Bergas was persecuted as Jewish in Nazi Germany. She was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on 4 June 1942 and murdered there on 10 July.

Minna's brother Hugo Feilchenfeld was married to Bettina Riesenfeld (1872-1933), with whom he had a son, Werner, in Berlin in 1895. Father and son survived the Shoah. Hugo died in Israel in 1952, Werner Feilchenfeld died in the United States in 1985.

In 1902 Minna's sister Alice Feilchenfeld married Siegfried Carow, who had been born in Bromberg in 1868, with whom she had a daughter, Margarethe Carow, who was born in Berlin in 1903.

We do not yet know any further details about Minna Bergas' family.

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