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Heinz Wertheimer * 1935

Rutschbahn 3 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
HEINZ WERTHEIMER
JG. 1935
FLUCHT 1937 HOLLAND
DEPORTIERT 1943
AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET

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

Heinz-Emanuel Wertheimer, b. 7.9.1935 in Hamburg, deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz on 9.10.1943

Rutschbahn 3

Heinz-Emanuel was born the son of the window cleaner Isaak Wertheimer (see his bibliographical entry) and his wife Ruth, née Cohen (see her biographical entry).

At the time of his birth, the family no longer lived at Rutschbahn 3, where the commemorative stone has been placed, but rather, three months previously, had moved into a larger dwelling at Bornstrasse 26.

When Heinz-Emanuel was approximately a year old, they moved again to a larger home at Rothenbaumchaussee 101–103 and lived there continuously until their emigration. At the end of February 1936, Heinz-Emanuel’s mother Ruth emigrated with him and his older sister Marion (see her biographical entry) to the Netherlands. They thereby followed his father Isaak, who had already emigrated in November of the previous year. After initial difficulties and many moves, the family lived in Amsterdam from November 1938 at Nieuwe Prinsengracht 114. Presumably, Heinz-Emanuel attended primary school here.

On 27 May 1943, the boy, together with his mother and sister, was imprisoned in the Westerbork concentration camp. The arrest probably took place in the framework of a raid in Amsterdam the day before in which about 3000 Jews were arrested and sent to the camp.

Heinz-Emanuel, Marion, and their mother spent just two months in Westerbork, until on 17 July they were released. Yet a week later, on 24 July, they were, this time with their father, once again imprisoned. Westerbork was, of course, only a transit camp. Thus Heinz-Emanuel, together with his parents and sister, were sent on, after a short stay, to the Auschwitz extermination camp on 7 September 1943. The transport arrived on 10 September 1943 and Heinz-Emanuel was probably murdered on the same day, at the age of eight years.

Because of missing camp documentation concerning the death of Heinz-Emanuel, as well as his parents and his sister, he was retroactively declared dead as of 31 December 1945.


Translator: Richard Levy
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.