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‘German school.’ One such example was the case of the Friedländer family. Max
Friedländer was married to a non-Jewish woman (by the name of Fynni Mroka).
They had one daughter, Margot, born in 1931. 141 On 5 March 1940, Fynni
Friedländer requested that her daughter be permitted to attend a ‘German school.’
On 22 December 1941, the provincial government rejected her application. 142 The
majority of ‘Mischlinge’ in the city attended the ‘Judenschule.’ On 15 July 1942,
the provincial government received a memorandum which clarified which
‘Mischlinge’ were to attend which schools and under what conditions this should
occur. Six classifications were articulated. 143
Spier, his wife Frieda, and all the teaching assistants and their families, with
the exception of Joachim Freiberg 144 were deported on 14 April 1942. 145 Freiberg
had been conscripted as a forced labourer in the city some time earlier. With
Spier’s departure, Joachim Freiberg and lay members of the community continued
to teach the remaining pupils, of whom there were very few left. Most of those
selected in the first deportation were families. 146
On 22 June 1942, Dr Fritz Grunsfeld of the Leipzig office of the Bezirksstelle
Sachsen-Thüringen der Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland informed
parents of all pupils attending Jewish schools in Chemnitz, Erfurt and Magdeburg
141
Sonderaufbereitung der Volkszählung vom 17. Mai 1939, Listung der
Erhebungsbögen für Provinz Sachsen, Stadtkreis Magdeburg, Gemeinde Magdeburg,
BAB, op. cit., p. 8.
142
Correspondence from Der Regierungspräsident, An Frau Fynni Friedländer, 22
December 1941, Bestand Rep. C 28 II, Signatur Nr. 3996, LHASA MD, op. cit., pp.
33–39.
143
Betrifft: Zulassung jüdischer Mischlinge zum Schulbesuch, 2. Juli 1942, Bestand
Rep. C 28 II, Signatur Nr. 88, Band 2, LHASA MD, op. cit., p. 93.
144
Name withheld, op. cit., 13 July 2004.
145
M. F., op. cit., 27 June 1999.
146 Ibid.