The memory of Edith Weiner from Heidenau

Edith Weiner was a girl who was a bit cross-eyed and wore glasses. She lived with her parents on a small street in Heidenau, Saxony, not far from the town hall. She had friends and boyfriends, one of whom she sometimes stole cookies from one of her parents' tins. This is how this friend recalled it to a historian decades later.

Sometime after 1938, the exact year is unclear, Edith Weiner's parents wanted to flee Germany. They packed boxes, loaded them onto a truck and set off, presumably to Romania. How long they were there is not known. What is certain is that the family was murdered because they were Jewish. Probably in a massacre in Transnistria in 1942. If this is true, Edith was nine years old.