In the list compiled by Mence / Binder of the Jewish people who died in the Nazi era and who were born or lived in Bad Kissingen for a longer time, Dr. Paula (born Sally) Born is listed. So far, however, we have not been able to find any evidence of their stay in the spa town. Paula Sally, née Born was born in Forst in the District of Lausitz on January 19, 1888. Her parents, Jakob Born and Regina, née Hamburger came from the Prussian Province of Posen/ Poznan. Around 1894, the family, who also included the older brother Alfred, moved to Plauen. 

Paula’s father owned a firm there, “Neustadt und Nachfolger”. They sold shoes, hats, caps and clothes for men and boys. Since 1910, Paula’s brother Alfred also worked in their parent’s firm as a clerk. Jakob Born was also active in the Israelite Community as their deputy. He already died in August 1913.

In 1909, Paula married Moritz Aaron (Aron?) in Berlin. They had one son, Joachim. Paula’s husband already died in 1920 and she married again and got Sally as her family name. According to the census of 1939, Paula lived in Prenzlauer Berg in Winsstrasse 4 in May that year. In March 1943, Paula Sally was deported from Berlin to Auschwitz/ OświęcimExtermination Camp and murdered there.

Her mother Regine Born also became a victim of the Shoa. After her husband’s death, the widow and her son Alfred moved to Meerane in Saxony where her brother Marcus had opened a flourishing clothing shop that was run by his daughter-in-law Frieda Blumenthal till 1934. “She took her own life as she had been arrested during the “boycott” of April 1, 1933, the infamous Saturday Boycott the Nazis had organized against the Jewish tradesmen, because of an unfounded denunciation. In spite of being released immediately, she didn’t believe she could live any longer”, her nephew Alfred Born said. (Meeraner Blatt nr. 33,9, February 2008, p. 6) After her death, her nephew (Paula’s brother Alfred) took on her clothing shop. During the November Pogrom 1938, Alfred Born was dragged out of his apartment and beaten, his shop was devastated. After a stay in the Police Prison, Buchenwald Concentration Camp was next. As his wife wasn’t Jewish, she reached his release. Alfred Born was forced to sell his shop, moved to Berlin Charlottenburg with his wife, daughter and his mother where his sister Paula lived. There, he worked as a coal worker, mover of furniture and in a soap powder factory. 

In March 1943, Paula Sally was deported to Auschwitz/ Oświęcim Extermination Camp and murdered there. Few months later – in July – her mother was also deported to Theresienstadt and died there in November 1942.

Paula’s brother Alfred and his family survived as he had the protection of a so-called “privileged mixed marriage” because his wife was not Jewish. After the end of the war, Alfred Born returned to Meerane and opened the shop again. In 1950, he emigrated to his son in Australia but came back to Meerane in 1954 and accepted a post as a salesperson in the selling point for clothes in “Konsum” at Platz der Roten Armee. Alfred Born died on June 2, 1958 and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery of Plauen (Ibid./ See: Waltraud Schmidt, “der jüdische Friedhof in Plauen. Geschichte, Gräber, Schicksale“, 2003).