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Lea Norden * 1890
Simon-von-Utrecht-Straße 4 (ehemaliges Isr. Krankenhaus) (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Pauli)
HIER WOHNTE
LEA NORDEN
JG. 1890
DEPORTIERT 1941
LODZ
ERMORDET
Lea (Lieschen) Norden, b.5.31.1890 (or 1898) in Hamburg, deported to Lodz on 10.25.1941, date of death unknown
Simon-von-Utrecht-Strasse 4 (Eckernförderstrasse 4)
The year of the Jewish nurse Lea Norden’s birth in Hamburg cannot be firmly established. While the Jewish Congregation listed 31 May 1890 on her communal tax card and on the voter list of 1930, the deportation record has it as 31 May 1898 – the date used by the Memorial Book of Hamburg. She was the daughter of the married couple Hermann and Emilie Esther Norden, née Levinsohn; she had two brothers. Siegfried the eldest was born in Berlin in 1892; the younger, Alfred, in Hamburg in 1897.
By 1931 at the latest, Lea Norden worked as a "care giver" and then as a nursing sister in the Israelite Hospital on Simon-von-Utrecht-Strasse, and she lived in the sisters‘ home there. According to the census of 17 May 1939, "Sister Lieschen" was recorded as being at Bogenstrasse 15. Apparently, she had left the Jewish hospital because of a lack of patients – since as of 1935 it was allowed to treat only Jews – and went into private nursing care. As a single woman, she probably lived in the households where she worked, a supposition supported by her frequent change of addresses in Eimsbüttel and Eppendorf. Since 1938 Lea Norden received a pension from the Israelite Hospital and was carried on the books as "wage and communal tax-free."
Eppendorfer Baum 10 "bei Sage" was the last home address for Lea Norden. It was from here that she was deported to Lodz on 25 October 1941, entered as a "nurse in private employment" on the transport list.
The second largest city in Poland was renamed "Litzmannstadt" on 11 April 1940; the Jewish ghetto erected in the old town was hermetically sealed at the end of April 1940. Living there, packed together in the most confined space, were 160,000 Jews. The first transport from Hamburg with 1,063 people reached the ghetto on 26 October 1941. Only four persons from this transport lived until the end of the war.
It is not known how long Lea Norden was able to hold out despite the terrible provisioning situation and the hard labor conditions. Her brother Alfred was deported to Auschwitz on 12 February 1943 and murdered. Brother Siegfried’s fate is not known; neither the Memorial Book of Hamburg or the Yad Vashem database have anything to convey about him. Their parents had already died in the mid-1930s.
Translator: Richard Levy
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: November 2017
© Gunhild Ohl-Hinz
Quellen: 1; 2; 4; 5; 8; ITS/ARCH/Korrespondenz T/D – 779554; Gottwaldt/Schulle, "Judendeportationen", 2005, S. 77.
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Hier abweichend: (2) Bundesarchiv Berlin, R 1509 Reichssippenamt, Ergänzungskarten der Volkszählung vom 17. Mai 1939
