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Selma Speyer * 1872

Bismarckstraße 80 (Eimsbüttel, Hoheluft-West)

HIER WOHNTE
SELMA SPEYER
JG. 1872
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET 1944 IN
AUSCHWITZ

further stumbling stones in Bismarckstraße 80:
Selma Marbach, Bertha Speyer, Rosette Speyer

Bertha Speyer, born on 1 Aug. 1874 in Hamburg, deported on 15 July 1942 to Theresienstadt, murdered on 15 May 1944 in Auschwitz
Rosette Speyer, born on 3 Mar. 1869 in Hamburg, deported on 15 July 1942 to Theresienstadt, died there on 30 Sept. 1943
Selma Speyer, born on 5 July 1872 in Hamburg, deported on 15 July 1942 to Theresienstadt, murdered on 15 May 1944 in Auschwitz

Bismarckstrasse 80

The sisters Bertha, Rosette and Selma were the daughters of David and Pauline Speyer (née Bauer) and remained unmarried.

Selma Speyer worked as an authorized signatory. She belonged to the Hamburg Jewish Community, paying her dues on a regular basis. As of 1 Jan. 1938, she was not deemed fit for gainful employment anymore.

As the Jewish Community noted, Bertha Speyer no longer had an income as early as 1936, though it is unclear in which line of work she had been employed before.

By 1939, Selma and Bertha Speyer did not live at Bismarckstrasse 80 anymore but at Heidestrasse 22. Their last residential address was Bundesstrasse 43, a "Jews’ house” ("Judenhaus”). Her sister Rosette also lived in such a house, at Bundesstrasse 35.

On 15 July 1942, Bertha, Rosette, and Selma, all of whom had passed the age limit of 65 years, were deported on a "transport of old people” ("Alterstransport”) to Theresienstadt. Rosette perished there on 30 Sept. 1943. Bertha and Selma were called up for further transport to Auschwitz exactly one year later, on 30 Sept. 1944, and murdered there.

The former neighbor from Bismarckstrasse 80 submitted Pages of Testimony for the sisters at Yad Vashem.


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

Stand: January 2019
© Jonas Stier

Quellen: 1; 5; 8; HAB II 1933, 1939; Beate Meyer (Hrsg.): Die Verfolgung, S. 51.
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