Background
Jonas was born in Fischhausen, East Prussia (now Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) in 1893, and moved to Königsberg in 1895, where she attended the höhere Mädchenschule, qualifying as a teacher.
Jonas was born in Fischhausen, East Prussia (now Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) in 1893, and moved to Königsberg in 1895, where she attended the höhere Mädchenschule, qualifying as a teacher.
After the war she gained her abitur, and then studied Medicine at the University of Königsberg, qualifying to practice in 1923.
She then worked for a year as an au pair in England, and then as a teacher. Their only child, daughter Esther, was born on 13 March 1924. The family lived in the Grindel suburb of Hamburg until 1925, and then moved to Eppendorf.
In 1932, she was laid off, and did voluntary work in the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and then the Israelitischen Krankenhaus.
Doctor Alberto Jonas died six weeks later of meningitis. Jonas worked as a doctor.
On 12 October 1944, Jonas was deported to Auschwitz and was murdered there. Her daughter Esther survived.