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Samuel Levy * 1857

Goldbekufer 40 (Hamburg-Nord, Winterhude)

entrechtet gedemütigt
Flucht in den Tod 19.12.1941

Samuel Levy, born 09/27/1857 in Hamburg, died there on12/19/1941 of his own hand

Little is known about Samuel Levy, son of N. K. Levy and his wife Frau Selda, née Levy. His daughter Agnes Levy, born August 17th, 1901, originated from his marriage to Anna, née Meyer.

Samuel Levy had worked as a merchant in former years, and he kept this occupational title in retirement. According to the hand-written entries in his culture tax card, Samuel Levy had lived at Fesslerstrasse 15 since 1932 and moved to Goldbekufer 40, fourth floor, as a sub-tenant of Heilbut, on Jan 14th, 1938. It is unknown when his wife died and he became a widower; it is also unknown if the couple lived together at the address in Goldbekufer.
On June 2nd, 1939, Samuel Levy had to move to the hospice of the Jewish Community at Schäferkampsallee 29, that was later used as a "Jews’ house.” The records do not reveal if Levy, then almost 82, needed continuous care.
When the systematic deportations from the "Altreich” (core Germany) began in October, 1941, the situation of the remaining Jews here worsened even more. Shortly before Samuel Levy took his own life at the age of 84 on December 19th, 1941, three thousand of the then remaining five thousand Hamburg Jews had been deported to the ghettos of Lodz, Minsk and Riga. Perhaps he feared to be assigned to one of the next transports. Samuel Levy chose his own way.
Nothing is known of the further fate of his daughter.


Translated by Peter Hubschmid
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

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