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Sara Weis (née Blimowitsch) * 1888
Oderfelder Straße 7 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)
1942 Theresienstadt
1944 weiterdeportiert nach Auschwitz
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further stumbling stones in Oderfelder Straße 7:
Anna Mathiason, Moritz Weis
Moritz Weis, b. 3.19.1871 in Mainz, deported to Theresienstadt on 7.19.1942, deported on to Auschwitz on 5.14.1944
Sara (called Sabine) Weis, née Blimowitsch, b. 10.30.1888 in Minsk, deported to Theresienstadt on 7.19.1942, further deported to Auschwitz on 5.14.1944
Oderfelder Straße 7
Moritz was the son of Simon and Franziska Weis, née Lorch, and lived in Mainz until 1907 at the latest. On 28 May 1907, he was registered in the Hamburg Jewish Congregation and paid religious communal taxes from 1913 to 1942. Moritz Weis was married to Sara (called Sabine), née Blimowitsch (alternately spelled Limowitsch or Blumowitsch).
The couple lived at Husumer Strasse 10. The marriage produced three children: Erich Simon on 19 March 1911, who, after graduating from preparatory school, studied medicine in Italy. From there, in 1938, he succeeded in emigrating to the USA; a daughter, Edith Berta Franziska, born on 14 July 1912, and Kurt Edgar, born on 8 May 1919. The parents had the children educated according to modern reformed pedagogic methods. Edith transferred from a private higher girls school to the Lichtwarkschule and received her qualifying diploma there. After receiving her certificate on 25 February 1932, she began training as a kindergarten teacher. She, too, succeed in emigrating, going to England in 1939.
Kurt had attended the Cläre Lehmann School before transferring to the Lichtwarkschule. He was able to emigrate to Palestine at the end of 1938, where he changed his name to Giora Navon. He married, and on 23 June 1943, his daughter Dalia was born; she later married Hartman.
Moritz Weis was a salesman in an import/export business dealing in essential oils; he was listed in the Hamburg Commercial Register as of 20 June 1906. The firm’s headquarters was initially at Fehlandstrasse 21, then from 1914 to 1937 at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 20–26. Moritz Weis’ business affairs ran well. When he had to serve as a soldier in World War I, he gave his wife Sara the power of attorney to run the firm. In 1922, the power of attorney was given to Johanna Caroline Malwine Ehlers and Martin Philipp Heilbron for the firm at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 20–26.
When, in connection to the November Pogrom of 1938, the anti-Jewish measures against Jewish-owned firms was expanded, the Moritz Weis frim was also hit. The business was "liquidated” on 18 August 1939, officially expunged from the Register. According to the "Ordinance concerning the Reporting of the Assets of Jews,” Moritz Weis had to fill out papers regarding the capital levy on Jewish assets.
As of 1938, the Weis couple had lived at Oderfelder Strasse 7. Thereafter, they had to move several times, with the last address given as Geffckenstrasse 23.
Moritz Weis had been wealthy, but had then to sell off pieces of real estate, in order to finance the emigration of his children. On account of this, in February 1939, a "security order” against capital flight was issued because "Moritz Israel and Sara Weis” were Jews. Thus, Moritz Weis had to pay considerable Reich Flight taxes and the allowance the couple could dispose of was fixed at 400 RM per month. Even small contributions, such as for gifts or additional clothing, had to be applied for. An application to raise the allowance 85 RM was only partially complied with. Without a declaration of grounds, the allowance was raised to only 75 RM.
In this connection, his attorney Hermann Samson, wrote on 4 April 1939: "Mr. Weis has in recent years made gifts to his 3 children in order to facilitate their emigration. Regarding his son Kurt Edgar Weis and daughter Edith Weis a Reich Flight tax was paid. His oldest son Erich Weis received from his father, on the occasion of his emigration to America, physician’s instruments to the value of 4000 RM with approval from the Foreign Currency Office. To gain that permission, he had to place an equal amount in the Golddiskontobank. And a further 7500 RM into an emigrant’s blocked account.”
In a letter of 13 July 1939, Moritz Weis addressed a request to the Foreign Currency Office for a payout for the surrender value of two life insurance policies in foreign currency, since he intended to emigrate. The request was agreed to with the condition that the difference between the highest collateral value and the surrender value, on the basis of the current market value, be paid without replacement into the Berlin Golddiskontobank. In addition, Moritz Weis had to pay a fee to that bank. On 15 December 1939, a clearance certificate for emigration was issued. Yet emigration was further delayed, even though Moritz Weis took every desperate effort. Thus, he applied as late as 29 November 1941, a month after emigration had already been prohibited, for an allowance from his "secured account,” in order to pay for telegrams to fight for his intended emigration.
All attempts failed. Moritz Weis and his wife Sara were, as number 728 and 729, deported to Theresienstadt on 19 July 1942. They had to underwrite a "home purchase agreement,” which was the last part of the perfidious deception and robbing of Jews. Moritz Weis paid with stocks.
The Weis couple was deported onward to Auschwitz on 15 May 1944 and presumably immediately murdered. Their exact date of death is unknown.
It was suggested in a reparation payment proceeding, that as legal heirs, the children of Sara and Moritz Weis receive "5,000 DM as a good will gesture and DM 99 for the payment to Berlin Golddiskontobank
Translator: Richard Levy
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: May 2019
© Ulrike Graubner
Quellen: 1; 2; 5; 7; 8; 9; StaH 314-15 OFP, R 1939/550; StaH 314-15 OFP F2380; StaH 314-15 OFP, F4554; StaH 362-2/19 Heinrich-Hertz-Schule, 25; StaH 362-2/20 Lichtwarkschule, 35; StaH 390 Wählerliste 1930; StaH 552-1,Abl.1933, Ordner 10 Heimeinkaufsverträge Theresienstadt; AfW 140371 Weis, Moritz; StaH 522-1 Jüd. Gemeinden, 992e2 Band 5; Amtliches Fernsprechbuch Hamburg E-Mail Björn Eggert vom 7.11.2009.
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