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Hertha Levie (née Goldschmidt) * 1892

Papenhuder Straße 22 (Hamburg-Nord, Uhlenhorst)

HIER WOHNTE
HERTHA LEVIE
GEB. GOLDSCHMIDT
JG. 1892
FLUCHT 1939 HOLLAND
INTERNIERT WESTERBORK
DEPORTIERT 1942
AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET

further stumbling stones in Papenhuder Straße 22:
Jon Levie

Jon Levie, born 9/10/1878, emigrated to the Netherlands in 1938 and deported to Auschwitz from there on 9/21/1942
Hertha Levie, née Goldschmidt, born 3/11/1892, emigrated to the Netherlands in 1938 and was deported from there to Auschwitz on 9/21/1942

Papenhuder Strasse 22

Little is known about the origins of Jon Levie. The Jewish citizen of the Netherlands was born in Hamburg as the son of the cigar manufacturer Tanchum (Theodor) Levie and his wife Hannah, née Ricardo-Rocamora. He had a brother, Iwan, six years his junior.

His wife Hertha was born on March 11th, 1903 as the youngest of three children of Natan (called Louis Goldschmidt and his wife Johanna, née Mayer. Her sister Irma was born in 1895, sister Hilde three years later. Louis Goldschmidt ran a clothing store at Hochstrasse 128 in Krefeld. The Goldschmidt family moved to Berlin in 19094, where they lived in the Schöneberg section.

In Hamburg, Jon Levie at first ran his own business and later worked as a salesman for raw tobacco. It is not known when and where he and Hertha met. After the marriage in the early twenties, they moved Papenhuder Strasse 22.

In the thirties, the Levies moved to Hofweg 45, where they opened the boarding house "Pension Holland” on the second floor. On account of the increasing animosity against Jews and the increasing threats by the Nazis, the couple decided to go to the Netherlands. Louis Goldschmidt helped his daughter and his son-in-law with their preparations for moving. A large part of the furniture was sold to their neighbor Margarethe Seifert, who also took over the boarding house on December 1st, 1938.

At that time, the Levies were already living at the "Otens” boarding house at Singel 52. So it was Louis Goldschmidt who handled all the applications to the currency and asset liquidation authorities. In January, 1939, the Levies’ furniture was still in storage at the Carl Luppy moving company’s warehouse at Eppendorfer Weg 155 and was only shipped to the Netherlands in August. The couple also still had 1,390 RM blocked in their account at Deutsche Bank. Louis Goldschmidt desperately attempted to transfer the money to Holland. But the German government confiscated it.

In 1941, Jon and Hertha lived in a tenement building at Vossiusstraat 14, where they were arrested and taken to the Dutch detainment camp in Westerbork. On September 21st, 1942, the Levies were deported to Auschwitz, where they perished.

Jon Levie’s brother Iwan was also deported to Auschwitz in 1942 and murdered there. A Stumbling Stone for him has been laid in Bismarckstrasse in Eppendorf. Louis Gildschmidt killed himself on October 31st, 1942 following the death of his wife. Irma Goldschmidt was the sole member of the family who survived the Holocaust.


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

Stand: March 2017
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Quellen: 1; 2; 4; 5; 8; StaHH 314-15, OFP, FVg 5514; StaHH 314-15, OFP, R 1940/674; ITS/ARCH/Durchgangslager Westerbork/5145028#1 (1.1.46.1/0005/0205); ITS/ARCH/Kartei Durchgangslager Westerbork/ 12768379#1 (1.2.4.2/LEGR-LEVIN-H/1912); Stadtarchiv Felsberg; Stadtarchiv Krefeld; http://www.joodsmonument.nl/person-481905-nl.html, Zugriff am 14.6.2009.
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