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At a commemorative event to mark the 125th birthday of athlete Lili Henoch, some of the books she once owned were returned to family members. The event took place on the premises of the Saxony-Anhalt federal state representation in Berlin.
Books belonging to the Henoch family were among those found in the synagogue on Fraenkelufer in Berlin in the post-war period. Based at Moses Mendelssohn Akademie in Halberstadt and funded by the German Lost Art Foundation, the Moses Mendelssohn Foundation Berlin and the entrepreneur Manfred Wolff, a research project is currently in progress to investigate the provenance of the books. The original owners and potential legal successors are being identified based on name entries, bookplates and other annotations.
Born on 26 October 1899 in Königsberg, the athlete Lili Henoch competed in the shot put, discus event, long jump and 4 x 100 metre relay for the Berliner Sport-Club (BSC) between 1919 and 1926. She won the German national championship ten times and set four world records. Lili Henoch held a leading position in the BSC until her expulsion in 1933. In September 1942, she and her mother Rose Henoch were deported from Berlin to Riga and murdered on the spot.
