Familie Joseph
The Joseph family consisted of four members, the parents Isidore Joseph (1868 - 1944) and Berthe Rischard (1881 - 1944) and their two children Bernard Joseph (1907 - 1944) and Rose Joseph (1908 - 1996) . Rose married a man named Jean Joseph Foesser and the two fled before the war began.
As his father Isidore suffered from a kidney ailment, Bernard stayed at home in Junglinster to care for his parents.
Berthe Rischard was born in Junglinster on 13 February 1881. She lived with her sister and parents in Junglinster and married Isidore Joseph on 25 April. Her husband was born in Rosport on 23 October 1868. They both lived from then on in the Rue de la gare in Junglinster. Isidore was a cattle dealer.
The family was deported to the Fünfbrunnen convent on 24 October 1941. Described by the Nazis as a Jewish old people's home, Fünfbrunnen was in fact the only assembly camp for Jews from Luxembourg. Until June 1943, more than 300 Jews were briefly housed here. From there they were deported to various concentration camps (KZ). This was also the case for the Joseph family, who were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on 28 July 1942.
Isidore died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp on 21 June 1943 (see picture of the death certificate). Berthe, for her part, was taken by train to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on 9 September 1943 and was probably killed immediately in one of the gas chambers at the age of 62. Her son Bernard had already been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on 29 January 1943. Nothing is known about his fate, but it must be assumed that he was killed in the course of 1943.
Text: Sofia Pereira Mesquita and Jeremy Villar Vargas (both 3GPS)
Sources: ANLux J-108-0166715, Etat civil commune de Junglinster, Arolsen Archives, Archives KZ Theresienstadt.
