Hermine Veersmann was born on 24 March 1890 in Molzen in the district of Uelzen. She and her brother Adolf Veersmann, born on 14 April 1897, belonged to a farming family. Their parents married in 1885. They had seven children, including two sets of twins. One set of twins lived only a few days. Hermine Veersmann was the fourth child, but she had lost two sisters. Adolf Veersmann and his twin sister were the youngest children. Little is known about their childhood. Hermine Veersmann fell ill in 1913. In 1917, she was admitted to the Lüneburg mental hospital. Between 1918 and 1921, she was in Liebenburg, but returned again.
Adolf Veersmann fell ill around 1930, so that from then on both siblings were cared for at the Lüneburg sanatorium. Adolf Veersmann was discharged in 1933, but readmitted in 1934. It is unclear whether he was forcibly sterilised, but in any case he was reported for it.
Adolf Veersmann was murdered on 7 March 1941 in the Pirna-Sonnenstein killing centre, his sister Hermine Veersmann ten weeks later on 28 May 1941 in Hadamar.
The siblings are victims of »Aktion T4«.
