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Irene Rosenberg * 1930

Von-Heß-Weg 10 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)

1937 Flucht Holland
1943 deportiert aus Holland nach Theresienstadt
1944 von Theresienstadt nach Auschwitz
ermordet

further stumbling stones in Von-Heß-Weg 10:
Ilse Hanna Rosenberg, Dr. Julius Rosenberg

Ilse Hanna Rosenberg, née Lewinnek, born on 2 Aug. 1908, deported on 21 Apr. 1943 to Theresienstadt, deported on 4 Oct. 1944 to Auschwitz, date of death there 6 Oct. 1944
Irene Rosenberg, born on 16 Dec. 1930, deported on 21 Apr. 1943 to Theresienstadt, deported on 4 Oct. 1944 to Auschwitz, date of death there 6 Oct. 1944
Julius Rosenberg, MD, 8 Feb. 1899, deported on 21 Apr. 1943 to Theresienstadt, deported on 28 Sept. 1944 to Auschwitz

Von-Hess-Weg 10

On 13 Apr. 1937, Dr. Julius Rosenberg wrote to the Association of German Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Deutschlands – KVD), Hamburg district branch, "This is to inform you that I have accepted a position as the head of the Amsterdam office of a Swiss chemical-pharmaceutical plant. Accordingly, I will move there on 1 April. I ask that my tickets be charged to the account of my father-in-law, Dr. Lewinnek, residing at Kreuzweg 26.” As a result, Julius Rosenberg was deleted from the Hamburg medical directory.

Julius Rosenberg was born on 8 Feb. 1899 in Berlin. His parents, Eugen and Frieda Rosenberg, née Magnus, had another son, Hans-Karl Cecil, born on 10 Feb. 1900, who became an actor and survived the Nazi regime, and Herbert, the third son, born on 1 July 1908. He and the mother emigrated to the USA.

Julius Rosenberg received a high-school education in Berlin, which due to the outbreak of World War I, he finished with an expedited high-school leaving exam for conscripted youths (Notabitur). In 1916, he was drafted into the Imperial Army and deployed in Belgium, Latvia, and Russia. During the transport to deployment in France, a carbide explosion inflicted serious injuries on him; having lost an eye, he was discharged from military service in 1917.

After the war, he studied medicine in Würzburg and Freiburg, passing his state examination in Freiburg, and worked their as a general practitioner until 1928. Afterward, he took on a job as a spa physician in Weisser Hirsch/Saxony.

On 4 Feb. 1930, he married the Hamburg doctor’s daughter Ilse Hanna Lewinnek, starting a medical practice at Hammer Landstrasse 100 and moving to Von-Hess-Weg 10. Their daughter Irene Ursula was born there on 16 Dec. 1930.

In 1932, the KVD, Hamburg district branch, granted him the license to practice as a statutory health insurance physician. In contrast to many of his colleagues, he was not immediately deprived of his license in 1933 because he was a frontline veteran. Until 1935, the family had a secure income. When that was no longer the case, Julius Rosenberg pushed ahead with emigration to the Netherlands, taking up residence in Amsterdam in 1937. He took along the apartment and practice furnishings. He earned a living by selling and distributing chemical products, though not like he had planned, as the salaried employee of a Swiss company but rather as a self-employed person. In Feb. 1939, his parents-in-law, the Lewinneks, also arrived in Amsterdam.

When the Netherlands where occupied by the German Wehrmacht in May 1940, Julius Rosenberg lost the basis of his livelihood. It is unclear how the family survived during the following years. Ilse Rosenberg was interned in the Westerbork transit camp on 19 Jan. 1943. We do not know why she was registered alone. In any case, Julius, Ilse, and Irene Rosenberg were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto on 21 Apr. 1943. Julius was transported onward to Auschwitz on 28 Sept. 1944. There is no documentation as to when he died. His wife and daughter were transported to Auschwitz on 4 Oct. 1944 and murdered there on 6 Oct. 1944.

The Lewinneks, a married doctor’s couple, were deported from the Netherlands to the Sobibor extermination camp in May 1943 and killed there on 28 May 1943.


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

Stand: October 2018
© Hildegard Thevs

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, 391 Mitgliederliste 1935; AfW 080299.
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