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Hulda Müller (née Ehrlich) * 1882

Schanzenstraße 79 (Hamburg-Mitte, Sternschanze)

HIER WOHNTE
HULDA MÜLLER
GEB. EHRLICH
JG. 1882
DEPORTIERT 1942
RIGA
ERMORDET

Hulda Müller, née Ehrlich, born on 26 Nov. 1882 in Löwitz/Silesia (today Lewice in Poland), deported on 19 Jan. 1942 from Berlin to Riga, date of death unknown

Schanzenstrasse 79

When the Jewish Community started a tax file card for Hulda Müller in June 1935, she was already listed as a "retiree” with a monthly pension. It is not known when she had left her native town of Löwitz (Lewice) in Silesia and taken up residence in Hamburg. The Jewish woman, born on 26 Nov. 1882 as Hulda Ehrlich, had been married for a time, though she had no children and was widowed by age 52 at the latest. Her residential address was listed as Schanzenstrasse 79 with Hoffmann.

In Mar. 1938, she relocated to Äneasstrasse 12 in Berlin-Mariendorf, where she lived with the widow L. Lewy, before having to move, probably in 1941, to Philippistrasse 9 in Charlottenburg. Receiving her deportation order there, Hulda Müller was deported on the ninth transport eastward ("Osttransport”) from Berlin to Riga on 19 Jan. 1942. The transport, comprised of 1,002 persons overall, departed from Grunewald train station. This station, used primarily as a freight station, was located in one of the most upscale [less densely populated] Berlin neighborhoods, thus far away from the public. On the transport list, the occupation indicated for the widowed Mrs. Müller was "secretary.” As a 60-year old, she was – like the vast majority of persons listed – classified as "fit for work.” The question concerning fitness for work was aimed at suggesting that this transport constituted a permanent resettlement to the eastern territories of the German Reich.

On 23 Jan. 1942, the deportees arrived in Riga. No further details are known about Hulda Müller’s fate. Of the 1,002 persons – more than two thirds women – who had left Berlin on this transport, only 19 persons lived to see the end of the war. Hulda Müller was not one of their number.


Translator: Erwin Fink

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2017
© Gunhild Ohl-Hinz

Quellen: 1; 6; ITS/ARCH/Transportliste Gestapo Berlin, Ordner 1, Seite 135; Auskunft Landesarchiv Berlin; Gottwaldt/Schulle, "Judendeportationen", 2005, S. 132.
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