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Max Simons * 1901

Herrenweide 23 (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Pauli)

HIER WOHNTE
MAX SIMONS
JG. 1901
FLUCHT 1940 HOLLAND
INTERNIERT WESTERBORK
DEPORTIERT 1943
SOBIBOR
ERMORDET 16.4.1943

further stumbling stones in Herrenweide 23:
Szajudla Simons, Jakob Simons

Jakob (Jacob) Simons, born on 17 Feb. 1938 in Hamburg, deported on 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga-Jungfernhof, date of death unknown
Max Simons, born on 3 July 1901 in Burgsteinfurt, emigrated to the Netherlands in May 1940, deported on 13 Apr. 1943 from the Westerbork camp to Sobibor, murdered there on 16 Apr. 1943
Szmidla Szajudla Simons, née Grinfeld (Grünfeld), born on 19 Oct. 1913 in Sosnowitz (Sosnowice in Poland), deported on 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga-Jungfernhof, date of death unknown

Herrenweide 23

Max Simons became a member of the Jewish Community in Mar. 1935. At this time, he lived with his second wife Szajudla on Pinnasberg. Only little is known about his first wife, just the fact that she was Protestant. Szajudla joined the Hamburg Jewish Community in Feb. 1936. Before that, she had been assessed for taxes in Altona. She worked as a housekeeper. Before marrying Max Simons in 1937, she was divorced from her first husband, Albert Simons. The available sources reveal nothing about whether Albert was related to Max Simons. In Feb. 1938, the couple had a son, Jacob. The family moved to Herrenweide 23. In Feb. 1940, Szajudla Simons informed the Jewish Community that her husband had moved abroad. He had emigrated to the Netherlands. When Szajudla and her son Jakob were deported to Riga-Jungfernhof, Jakob was three years old.

In the Netherlands, Max Simons was forced to live in the Westerbork transit camp. He was then deported to the Sobibor extermination camp and murdered there a few days after his arrival.


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

Stand: January 2019
© Christiane Jungblut

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