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Philipp Levisohn * 1896
Moorende 6-8 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)
further stumbling stones in Moorende 6-8:
Manfred Levisohn, Manja Cäcilie Levisohn, Margrit (Marguerita) Levisohn, Philipp Levisohn, Margrit Levisohn, Manja Cäcilie Levisohn, Manfred Levisohn
Manfred Levisohn, born 2/27/1937, deported to Lodz on 10/25/1941, deported to Chelmno on 9/12/1942
Manja Cäcilie Levisohn, born 12/16/1929, deported to Lodz on 10/25/1941, deported to Chelmno on 9/12/1942
Margrit (Marguerita) Levisohn, née Löwenstein, born 1/12/1913, deported to Lodz on 10/25/1941, deported to Chelmno on 9/12/1942
Philipp Levisohn, born 6/1/1896, deported to Lodz 10/25/1941, deported to Chelmno on 9/12/1942
Moorende 8
Philipp Levisohn came from Wandsbek and continued to belong to the town’s Jewish Community after moving to Hamburg in the 1920s. Already his father Louis Levisohn had been born in the Prussian town, where he had married Helene, née Freudenberg, born 9/8/1869 in Lilienthal near Bremen. Philipp Levisohn’s parents died in Theresienstadt. Philipp was the eldest of four children. His siblings were Bernhard, born 5/5/1898 in Wandsbek, Mira, born 3/27/1905, and Sophie Lotte, born 7/3/1909; both sisters survived the Shoah. On November 8th, 1941, Bernhard, his wife Gertrud, née Grossmann, and their son Heinrich, born 6/21/1937 were deported to Minsk, where the trail of their lives is lost.
Philipp Levisohn was first married to Martha, née Wiener, born 11/27/1898. They had a daughter, Manja Cäcilie, born 12/16/1929 in Hamburg. Manja attended the girls’ school of the German-Israelitic Community, switched to the Talmud Tora Schule in April, 1939 and later with the others went back to Carolinenstrasse 35, where in April, 1939, she experienced the change of name to Volks- und Höhere Schule für Juden – "Elementary and Secondary School for Jews". With the exception of math and gym, her grades were very good.
Manja’s mother Martha Levisohn died in 1932; Philipp Levisohn married again, Margrit (Marguerita), née Löwenstein, born 1/12/1913 in Gummersbach. Their son Manfred was born on February 27th, 1937.
Philipp Levisohn had worked as a manager and, from 1935 to November, 1938 as a shareholder of the partnership Strauss-Werke at Caffamacherreihe 1/5 and was financially well situated. His retirement arrangement was appropriate to his standard of living and included a life insurance policy, from which he had to pay 5,000 RM "levy on Jewish assets” and an additional 3,000 RM "Reich flight tax.” The brothers Bernhard and Philipp Levisohn jointly supported their parents up to their deportation at the end of 1941 when their assets were confiscated by the Reich. When their household and personal effects were auctioned, the yield was a substantial 3,614.80 RM.
From Moorende 8, the family moved to Greflingerstrasse 1, where they were served the deportation order for the first transport to Lodz on October 25th, 1941; Manja Levisohn’s former class teacher Rebecca Rothschild was also assigned to that transport.
According to the records of the Lodz Ghetto’s Council of Elders, the Levisohns were assigned to Rauchgasse 21/39 from Mühlgasse 25 – the address of the Council of Elders. They and others got a single room without kitchen for eleven people. Philipp Levisohn worked within the Ghetto as a fine cabinetmaker, Margrit as a seamstress, and Manja attended a makeshift school the Council of Elders hat organized.
On September 12th, 1942, the parents were deported to Chelmno for extermination together with their children. The cause of their deregistration was given as "extradited.”
Translated by Peter Hubschmid
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: March 2017
© Hildegard Thevs
Quellen: 1; 2; 4; 5; StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, 390 Wählerverzeichnis 1930; 391 Mitgliederliste 1935; Talmud Tora Schule Zeugnislisten, 741-4 Fotoarchiv Sa 1246; BA Bln., Volkszählung 1939; AfW 010696; Archivum Panstwowe, Lodz; Ursula Randt, Carolinenstrasse 35, Hamburg 1996, S. 80–82, 98.
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