Else (Zenner) Marx (1894 - 1941)

Born 19 Apr 1894 in Lichtenfels, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Ancestors

Wife of Karl Marx — married 24 Jun 1920 in Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Died 25 Nov 1941 at age 47 in Ghetto Kowno, Kaunas, Lithuania

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Biography

Else (Zenner) Marx has Jewish Roots.

Else (Zenner) Marx has German Roots.

Else (Zenner) Marx died at Kovno Ghetto

Else Zenner was born in Lichtenfels, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, 19 Apr 1894. She was the daughter of Josef Zenner and Karolina "Lina" Fuld.^[1]

Else lived in Germany.

• 1920: Marriage of Else Marx and Karl Marx, 24 Jun 1920, Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.^[2]
• 1938: Widowed: Death of 52-year-old Karl Marx (brain tumor), 19 Jul 1938.^[3]
• 1941: Else was deported from München to Kovno Ghetto, German occupied Lithuania (Kauen), Fort IX, 20 Nov 1941.^[4]

47-year-old Else passed away in Kovno Ghetto, German occupied Lithuania, 25 Nov 1941.^[4] Her parents died at Terezin Ghetto. Her siblings emigrated to the USA, settling in Illinois. Her daughter also emigrated to the USA, settling in Florida.

Sources

1. ↑ Geni
2. ↑ Deutschland, Bayern, Nürnberg, Standesbücher, 1920
3. ↑ Death of Karl Marx
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945