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Noemi Carola Sello (née Weil) * 1890

Hartwicusstraße 2 (Hamburg-Nord, Uhlenhorst)

HIER WOHNTE
NOEMI CAROLA SELLO
GEB. WEIL
JG. 1890
GEDEMÜTIGT / ENTRECHTET
FLUCHT IN DEN TOD
24.10.1941

further stumbling stones in Hartwicusstraße 2:
Theodor Haubach

Noemi Carola Sello, née Weil, born 26.12.1890, suicide on 24.10.1941

Hartwicusstraße 2

Noemi Weil was born in Paris as the daughter of Henri Weil and his wife Ada, née Wodiska. It is not known when she moved to Germany; her parents and relatives remained in France.

Noemi Weil married Heinrich Sello, nine years her senior, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf on April 24, 1922. Just three years after the wedding, the marriage was divorced by the Berlin District Court on June 25, 1925.

After her divorce, Noemi Sello left Berlin and moved to Hamburg to Hartwicusstraße 2. Due to her Jewish origin, she had to give up her apartment in 1939 and move to Höltystraße 6, where she lived with Emmi Schanze as a subtenant. Until the end, Noemi Sello tried to earn her own living as a worker.

In the fall of 1941, Noemi Sello received a summons to report to the assembly camp for deportation in the former Lower Saxony Provincial Lodge on Moorweidenstraße on October 24. From there she was to be deported one day later on the first transport from Hamburg to the Lodz ghetto.

Her landlady reported to the police that Noemi Sello packed her suitcase on the eve of the deportation. She herself went to bed and woke up only the next morning at about 6:20 a.m. because she noticed a strong smell of gas. In the kitchen she found Noemi Sello. She was sitting on a kitchen chair and had the gas hose in her mouth.

Emmi Schanze turned off the gas tap and notified the police, who appeared shortly thereafter along with the fire department. The fire department opened windows and doors and tried to resuscitate Noemi Sello, but the doctor who was called in could only pronounce her dead.

Noemi Sello lived to be only fifty years old, none of her relatives could assist her in her last hours.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: January 2022
© Carmen Smiatacz

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 8; StaHH 331-5, Polizeibehörde – Unnatürliche Sterbefälle, 3 Akte 1941/1680.
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