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Marion Wertheimer * 1933

Rutschbahn 3 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
MARION WERTHEIMER
JG. 1933
FLUCHT 1937 HOLLAND
DEPORTIERT 1943
AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET

further stumbling stones in Rutschbahn 3:
Isaak Wertheimer, Ruth Wertheimer, Heinz Wertheimer

Marion Wertheimer, born on 12 Aug. 1933 in Hamburg, deported via Westerbork/Netherlands to Auschwitz on 7 Sept. 1943, murdered there on 10 Sept. 1943

Rutschbahn 3

Marion was born as the daughter of window cleaner Isaak Wertheimer and his wife Ruth, née Cohen.

On 14 Feb. 1935, her parents moved with her for the first time within Hamburg to a larger apartment at Bornstrasse 26. On 9 July of the same year, her brother Heinz-Emanuel was born and about one year later, the family moved again to a larger apartment, this time at Rothenbaumchaussee 101/103.

At the end of Feb. 1937, Marion emigrated to the Netherlands together with her brother and mother. They followed the father who had already left the German Reich in November of the previous year. After initial difficulties and several relocations, the family finally moved to Nieuwe Prinsengracht 114 in Amsterdam in Nov. 1938.

After some more or less undisturbed years of living in Amsterdam, where Marion went to school, conditions escalated in the Netherlands, too, as the German Wehrmacht invaded the country.

Thus, Marion was imprisoned on 27 May 1943 together with her mother and her younger brother in the Westerbork concentration camp. They spent almost two months in the camp and were surprisingly released on 17 July 1943 – but only to be arrested again one week later, on 24 July. Marion was recommitted to the camp with her mother and brother, but this time also together with her father.

Since Westerbork was used only as a transit camp, the Wertheimer family was deported further soon. The transport with which they left the Netherlands on 7 Sept. to the East led them to Auschwitz. It reached the extermination camp three days later, on 10 Sept. 1943, which is also the supposed date of Marion’s death. The girl reached the age of ten.

Due to a lack of records concerning her death in the camp files, the girl, as well as her parents and brother, were subsequently declared dead as of 31 Dec. 1945.


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

Stand: May 2019
© Anna-Katharina Kresin

Quellen: StaHH, 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung, 20789 Isak Wertheimer; StaHH, 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 992b, Kultussteuerkartei der Deutsch-Israelitischen Gemeinde Hamburg, Kultussteuerkarte Isak Wertheimer; StaHH, 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung, 38501 Ruth Wertheimer; www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch (Zugriff 29.07.2014); Stadsarchief Amsterdam, A64-24 Wertheimer, Isak; www.annefrank.org/de/Subsites/Zeitleiste (Zugriff 29.07.2014); Gutman, Israel (Hg.): Enzyklopädie des Holocaust. Band 3: Q–Z. München 1998, Sp. 1577–1579.