ELIZABETH
HENKERS
1. Intake sheet: date:
July 9, 1943
Born in London 1890
Parents are English (she is non-German speaking)
Hurt in bombings in Koln: (she would have been 53)
July 9, 1943 driven in ambulance from a sanatorium to Hadamar
Last known place of living was in Koln
“woman herself can’t provide more information”
2. October 12, 1943
form:
Letter from Director to head of state (requesting money)
Outlines Henkers’ case
“Brought to Limburg/Lahn on July 9, 1943 after bombings in Koln
Has no family, has no material goods, no relatives willing to pay. As
director, I am requesting care costs to be provided by the state”
In pencil:
Cost of care: 3.50 RM per day
3. to the head mayor
of the city of Koln
Request for information in order to send Henkers out of sanitorium
Answered in pencil—illegible old german handwriting
4. small handwritten
note (from her?)
“Elsabeth Henkers 54 July Koln Germany London I am pulling (?) Fater
& Mother- tot Jahn Charles is brother Chesters does not like tot”
5. Pflegekosten-Rechnung
Brought from Limburg/Lahn on Sept. 4, 1944 (had been there since July
9, 1943)
Recorded date of death: Sept. 15, 1944
Charged 92 RM for her care those 12 days
6. record of death
sheet
9:30 on Sept. 15
Causes of death recorded:
a. mental illness
b. stomach flu
c. heart weakness
JOSEF ZO(E)LLER
Born March 17, 1904
Eisenbach
Vater: Wilhelm Zoller
Kirschstrasse 43
1. Director of Hadamar
requesting a doctor’s note about Josef (to the father)
2. form from state
agreeing to pay for caretaking “in the third degree”
3. catholic, not married; Pruessen
(Prussian) Kreis: Limburg
father was a bricklayer
4. March 23 1929: cost
of care sheet calculated at 4.60 RM (until April 30, 1929)
5. April 4, 1929: statement
that patient requires care beyond April 29
6. “Antrag”
Februrary 16, 1929
Diagnosed with mental illness
+ “deaf-dumb” (taubstumm)
Question asks about grounds for institutionalization
Answers: still need to find out from him
Question asks if he is dangerous
Answers: sometimes/temporarily dangerous
He was at the deaf institute
in Lamberg
Father loses work in October 1928
Question about financial situation of the family
Answer: parents own apt. worth 6500 RM they have “4 Morgen”
of Land about 2000RM
Sept. 9, 1929
Note stating that beginning Feb. 27, 1929 he will have no more
health insurance
October 1, 1929:
Form asking if a cure or improvement is expected (from insurance)
October 4, 1929
Hadamar director writes back:
“In answer to your question/request regarding Josef Zoller from
Eisenbach I respond that he suffers from idiocy with deafness (Taubheit)
and he experiences temporary strong emotional reactions. Physically he
is doing well. An improvement or cure is not to be expected.”
A postcard from his
mother on August 14, 1930 to director, asking if they can come
pick up Josef and take him on “leave” (Erlauben) with them.
Reply from Director on August 16 that they can come get him on the 18th.
Form says he can go home for a year but will continue to be under observation.
Form on Aug. 25, 1930
says that on May 2, 1930 he became ill from “Ruhr”
and once “cured” he was sent home on August 18
January 8, 1932 (from Limburg)
Letter begins with address that it is about “den
Geisteskranken Josef Zoller aud Eisenbach) (the mentally ill…)
Requests info “as soon
as possible” about his release to his family to see if it is possible
for him to be released to them again. If not, they recommend he be sent
to a private institution –St. Josefshaus)
Yet another institutional
intake form on Feb. 28, 1934
And again, they want money from the state for his care
Over and over again….
All that is in his “medical” file is insurance/care cost
haggling over and over again….
May 8, 1934
Letter that he falls under the erbgesundheitsgesetz must be sterilized
before dismissing
Biologically intact and biologically should be able to produce children
Sterilized on Oct 18, 1934. in Diez (at the age of 30)
Dismissed to his parents
EMIL PLOTZ
Born in Bremen October 29, 1891
Catholic
Sister: Frau Marie Carstens Bremen Stuhrerstr. 10
First at St. Jurgenahl in Ellen
bei Bremen
Form on Oct. 7, 1940 says that he had worked earlier in his life
but could not anymore.
Diagnostic sheets say
he is “taubstumm” and does not use/have language (uses no
oral language—kein Sprache)
From age of 7-14 he was in
the deaf institute in Bremen
Form in 1920 says
the mother wants him out of the house—that he sprang up in the middle
of the night and came after her with a knife.
Had a 3rd grade education (at
age 20) and did not work.
Diagnosis: Taubstummheit
But also “Blindheit” listed at end of form
Original intake/diagnosis on March 31, 1920 (age of 20)
Transferred to Hadamar
on August 8, 1942
In blue pencil lists his death date as Sept. 30, 1942
On 14 Oct. 1942, officials
at Hadamar write to his sister and say they will send his urn
(Sterbeurkunde) if she will end 72RM in Briefmarken (STAMPS)
Cause of death on Sept. 30,
1942 (5:15 pm) is listed as:
a. Blindheit U. Taubstummheit
b. Verfall and Herzschwache
c. ---
d. Verfall and Herzschwache
Signed by Pfleger Paul Reuter
on Oct. 8, 1944 his
sister writes a postcard to inquire about him.
She is answered on Oct. 12, 1942 that he is buried in the institutional
cemetery
Transferred to Hadamar on sept.
2, 1942?
Sharon L. Snyder, Ph. D.,
Director, "Legacies of Eugenics" Summer Institute, Einstein
Forum
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Ph. D. Program in Disability Studies
Department of Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 626)
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd. #207
Chicago IL 60608-6904 U.S.A.
E-mail: ssnyder@uic.edu Phone: (312) 413-1975 (Voice) Fax: (312) 996-0885
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