In part 10 of our stumbling block series, today we introduce Josua and Regina Schwarzkachel.
Since January 27th, the Kehler Zeitung has been presenting a weekly short biography of people for whom a stumbling block was placed in Kehl. Today: Joshua and Regina Schwarzkachel. The stumbling blocks of the eight-member Schwarzkachel family are located at their home at Hauptstrasse 13 in Kehl, where the parents Laja née Westreich and Pinkas Schwarzkachel settled in 1911. We reported on the couple and their sons Willy, Max, Adolf and their daughter Feyda.
The second eldest son Josua, who was born in Mainz in 1906, went to school in Kehl like all his siblings. Like his brothers, Josua was an enthusiastic and keen football player and, like his brother Adolf, is said to have even played in the first team. Under the pressure of humiliation and violence, he left Kehl soon after 1933 and fled to Palestine, where his traces were lost.
Regina, the younger sister, was born in Strasbourg in 1908. After marrying Isaak Bergmann (born 1899), a leather merchant from Bresko near Krakow (Poland) in 1927 in Kehl, the couple moved to Nijmegen/Holland. In 1932 their son Sally was born.
The couple were arrested soon after the German Wehrmacht invaded and to the Westerbork concentration camp (“police Jewish transit camp Kamp
Westerbork”).
From there they were deported with 709 other Jewish sufferers to Auschwitz on November 24, 1942, where Regina (called Rosa) was murdered immediately after her arrival on November 27, 1942.
Sally Bergman was admitted to a home for disabled children in Hilversum in 1942 and was taken from there to Sobibor with 15 other children and murdered there on April 16, 1943. Isaak Bergmann first had to work as a slave in Majdanek, then he was killed as a forced laborer somewhere in Central Europe in March 1944.
Source: https://stolpersteine-guide.de/map/staedte/197/kehl
