Gravestone on the grounds of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial, photo taken circa 1997. In memory of her murdered family, the only survivor of the family, who was nine years old when the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated, had this gravestone erected as a memorial.
The family had been forced to live in the Berlin-Marzahn detention camp since 1936. The daughter, her mother Antonie Steinbach (1899-1945) and her brothers Heini and Willi were deported from Berlin to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in April 1943. From there, they were first transferred to Ravensbrück concentration camp in August 1944 and later to Mauthausen. Shortly before the end of the war, they arrived on a transport to the completely overcrowded Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The father Albert Steinbach and the grandmother Rosalie Schopper were murdered in other camps. The last paragraph of the inscription on the gravestone reads: AUSCHWITZ / BERGEN-BELSEN / RAVENSBRÜCK / NIE KEHRT IHR / ZURÜCK [Auschwitz / Bergen-Belsen / Ravensbrück / You will never return].
