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Julius Sachs
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Julius Sachs * 1916

Hammer Landstraße 59 (Aufgang Krugtwiete) (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)

1942 Auschwitz

further stumbling stones in Hammer Landstraße 59 (Aufgang Krugtwiete):
Bertha Lobatz, Max Mendel, Ida Mendel, Marianne Rendsburg, Dr. Else Emma Rosenbaum, Dr. Max Rosenbaum, Gertrud Sachs

Gertrud Sachs, née Rosenbaum, born on 16 Oct. 1914, deported on 11 July 1942 to Auschwitz
Julius Sachs, born on 25 June 1916, deported on 11 July 1942 to Auschwitz

Gertrud Sachs, the older of the two daughters of Max und Emma Else Rosenbaum, was born on 16 Oct. 1914 in Hamburg. She grew up in a solid middle-class family. Like her mother, she belonged to the Protestant Church. We know nothing about Gertrud Rosenbaum’s education. Until the end of 1937, she worked as a textile sales assistant at Gebr. Robinsohn (Robinsohn Bros.) on Neuer Wall. In 1938, Gertrud Rosenbaum pushed ahead with her emigration to Cairo, in order to marry Rudolf Popper there. This person might be the same Rudolf Popper, also a resident of Hammer Landstrasse, that had emigrated to Egypt in 1933/34. On 15 Aug. 1938, she received the tax clearance certificate (Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung). It is not clear why her departure failed. In 1940, Gertrud Rosenbaum married Julius Sachs, a close friend of her brother-in-law, Manfred Rendsburg.

Julius Sachs was a "Jewish crossbreed of the first degree” ("Mischling 1. Grades”) with a Jewish father and an "Aryan” mother. He was born on 26 May 1916 in Hamburg. After his high-school graduation (Abitur), he studied at the Institute of Technology in Berlin Charlottenburg, terminating his studies, however, to become a graphic artist.

Preparing for emigration to the USA, he bought used photographic equipment and completed a period of training as a photographer. Several photos of the Rosenbaum-Rendsburg-Sachs in the brochure containing these biographies, photos that his sister-in-law, Marianne Rendsburg, had handed over to his mother prior to deportation. She returned them to Manfred Rendsburg after the war.

Julius Sachs was enlisted for compulsory work as a lathe operator and metalworker, at the same time pursuing plans to emigrate, the last one of which was to Shanghai in Jan. 1941, together with Gertrud and the Rendsburg couple; all of these plans failed.

A member of the Jewish Religious Organization (Jüdischer Religionsverband) and married to a Jewish woman, Julius Sachs was ordered to report with his wife Gertrud to the first transport to the East on 25 Oct. 1941, even though he was a "half-Jew” ("Halbjude”). They were deferred because of their daughter Tana, just born on 8 Oct. 1941. The family moved to Parkallee 75. Tana fell ill with pneumonia and died on 27 Apr. 1942, despite treatment by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Degkwitz at the University Hospital. Gertrud and Julius Sachs were deported on 11 July 1942 to an unknown destination, probably Auschwitz.


Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: January 2019
© Hildegard Thevs

Quellen: 1; 2 Vg 981; 4; 5; 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 922 e 2 Deportationslisten Bd. 4; BA, Bln., Volkszählung 1939; Wir zogen in die Hammer Landstraße. Leben und Sterben einer jüdischen Familie. Hrsg. vom Stadtteilarchiv Hamm, 2001, pass.; persönliche Mitteilungen von Angehörigen.
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