Sophie Meier nee Weingarten was born in Felsberg, Germany, 1870. Prior to WWII she lived in Nonnenweier, Germany. During the war she was in Gurs, France. Sophie was murdered in the Shoah. Place of death: Recebedou, France, 25/02/1942.
Deported with a transport from Baden - Pfalz - Saarland to Gurs, 22/10/1940
List of Jewish victims from the Memorial book "Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945" prepared by the German Federal Archives
During the Shoah, Jews were murdered in a variety of ways, among them gassing, shooting, burning, drowning or burial alive, exhaustion through forced labor, starvation, epidemic diseases, deprivation of medical care and minimal hygienic conditions, and more. Some Jews took their own lives in order to escape arrest and further persecution, or to end their hopeless, relentless suffering.