Cora Berliner
born 1890
Cora Berliner was born in Hanover in 1890, the youngest of five children. She studied mathematics and then political economy, took her doctorate in 1916 with a study of Jewish youth organisations, and was active in the Jewish youth and women's movements. After working for the Schöneberg municipal administration she joined the Reich Ministry of Economics in 1919; in 1923 she became the first woman to be appointed Regierungsrätin, and in 1930 she was made a professor of economics at the Berufspädagogisches Institut in Berlin. Dismissed in 1933, she worked for Jewish self-help organisations, helped hundreds of people to emigrate and refused to leave Germany herself. As a senior official of the Reichsvereinigung she was deported from Berlin to Minsk on 23 June 1942 (the Bundesarchiv Memorial Book gives 24 June). The Memorial Book records the Maly Trostenets killing site as the place of her death; the date is unknown.
Murdered in Maly Trostenets.
Sources
- Bundesarchiv, Gedenkbuch – entry Berliner, Cora Birth 23 Jan 1890 Hanover; residence Wilmersdorf; deportation 'ab Königsberg – Berlin' 24 Jun 1942 to Minsk; place of death Maly Trostinec killing site
- Stolpersteine in Berlin – Cora Berliner Family, studies, doctorate 1916, Schöneberg 1916, Reich Ministry of Economics 1919, Regierungsrätin 1923, professor 1930, dismissal 1933, emigration work, deportation 23 Jun 1942 (header) to Minsk, house number 38-37 at the time
- Wikipedia (de) – Cora Berliner Deported 23 Jun 1942 to Minsk with other Reichsvereinigung staff; address Emser Straße 37; probably murdered at Maly Trostinez
- statistik-des-holocaust.de – XVI. Transport Departure 23 Jun 1942; Cora Berliner named among Reichsvereinigung staff on the list
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