Charlotte Joël

Charlotte Joël
Signature (1926)
Born	September 13, 1882 or 1887 Berlin, Germany
Died	after April 19, 1943 Auschwitz II-Birkenau
Nationality	German
Known for	Portrait photographs

Charlotte Joël (1882 or 1887–1943) was a German photographer.

Career

Rubber stamp imprint of the photo studio

Joël teamed up with photographer Marie Heinzelmann around 1918 and opened the photo studio Joël & Heinzelmann in Charlottenburg. She was mainly interested in portrait photography, her portraits of well-known subjects included Walter Benjamin, Marlene Dietrich, Karl Kraus, Hedwig Lachmann or Gustav Landauer.

Stolperstein for Charlotte Joel

After Adolf Hitler's rise to power, as a Jew she was no longer able to work in her profession from 1933, but the studio continued under the name "Joël & Heinzelmann" until 1938/39. With the help of her friend Clara Grunwald, Joël came to Landwerk Neuendorf, a Jewish workers' colony and training center, where she worked in the canteen.

Personal life

On April 19, 1943, Joël was deported from Berlin to the extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau on transport no. 37, where she was murdered.

Legacy

In 2013, a Stolperstein was laid in Berlin at Klopstockstraße 19 for Charlotte Joel.

Gallery

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  Karl Kraus (1921)
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  Walter Benjamin (1929)

See also

• List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz

External links

• Entry for Charlotte Joel in The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (here year of birth: 1882)
• Entry for Charlotte Joel in The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (here year of birth: 1887)
• Wiederständige Künstlerinnen. Lecture by Sabine Krusen on Charlotte Joel, Ilse Schaeffer, Julie Wolfthorn at the Inselgalerie in Berlin, April 19, 2012. Retrieved 2018-10-21.