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Salomon Presser * 1909

Gneisenaustraße 18 (Eimsbüttel, Hoheluft-West)

HIER WOHNTE
SALOMON PRESSER
JG. 1909
FLUCHT 1936
HOLLAND
INTERNIERT WESTERBORK
DEPORTIERT 1943
ERMORDET IN
AUSCHWITZ

further stumbling stones in Gneisenaustraße 18:
Therese Presser, Karl Presser, Marianna Presser, Herbert Wagener, Therese Wagener, Walter Wagener, Heinz Wagener, Willi Wagner

Therese Presser, née Polak, b. 6.13.1882 in Oldersum, fled in March 1939 to Amsterdam, deported on 1.14.1943 to Auschwitz and murdered there
Marianna Presser, b. 9.23.1916 in Hamburg, fled to the Netherlands in 1939, interned in Westerbork on 7.24.1943, deported on 7.31.1943 to Auschwitz and murdered there
Salomon Presser, b. 10.25.1909 in Hamburg, fled to the Netherlands in 1936, interned in Westerbork on 7.27.1943, deported on 7.31.7.1943 to Auschwitz and murdered there
Karl Abraham Presser, b. 4.5.1911 in Hamburg, fled to the Netherlands in 1939, interned in Westerbork on 2.4.1943, deported on 2.9.1943 to Auschwitz and murdered there

Gneisenaustraße 18

Therese Presser came from Oldersum in East Frisia. Her parents were Abraham Polak (b. 1845), a butcher, and Martha Polak (b. 1849). She had seven siblings, of whom six were deported and murdered. Her niece, Therese, married Wagener and later lived in the same house on Gneisenaustrasse as her aunt (see biographical entry for the Wagener family). Therese arrived in Hamburg in 1900.

In Oldersum on 13 December 1908, she married Mozes Presser (b. 4.25.1886) from Amsterdam; they had the children Salomon (b. 10.25.1909), Karl Abraham (b. 4.5.1911), and Marianna Martha (b. 9.23.1916). Apparently, the family had citizenship in the Netherlands. A "Cig.Abtr.” M. Presser is listed in the Hamburg directory of 1910 at Heussweg 101. From approximately 1920, the couple lived on the third floor in an apartment at Gneisenaustrasse 18. In 1919, Therese Presser was listed as a member of the German-Israelite Congregation. According to her communal religion tax record, Therese Presser’s husband returned alone to his homeland, however, remained registered in Hamburg until August 1936. The marriage ended in divorce, probably in 1936, when Mozes was officially removed from the Hamburg registry; he now lived in Eindhoven. In Hamburg, Therese Presser was penniless and had to live on welfare for many years.

She fled with her children to the Netherlands, but could not escape her persecutors, like so many other Jews who had attempted to save themselves there. She went to the Netherlands at the beginning of 1939, before her passport was invalidated on 24 March 1939. Her son Salomon, a tailor’s apprentice, had his own communal tax card. He went to Holland in the spring of 1936, lived as a bachelor in Amsterdam, among other places at Meerhuizenplein 16. Her daughter Marianna, also a member of the Hamburg Jewish Congregation, began an apprenticeship in 1934 which she apparently could not finish. From 1935 on she was unemployed. In February 1939, she left Hamburg. Up to that point she had sublet a place from Brauer at Oberstrasse 113.

Marianna and Salomon Presser lived with their mother Therese in Amsterdam at Waverstraat 381.

Therese Presser received her committal order for the Westerbork transit camp in December 1942. She was deported to Auschwitz from there on 11 January 1943 and, immediately upon her arrival, murdered on 1.14.1943. Both children arrived in Westerbork a half year later on 27 July 1943. They were deported to Auschwitz on 31 July 1943. Their official date of death is 9.30.1943.

Karl Abraham Presser, Therese’s son, lived for a time in the Farmsen care facility. He was probably mentally ill and had already spent time at the Alsterdorf Institute. He emigrated from Hamburg to the Netherlands in February 1939 and lived in the Apeldoornse Bosch Psychiatric Institute (in Apeldoorn). Four months later he was transferred to the A. C. Wertheim House at Plantage Parklaan 15 in Amsterdam, an extension of Apeldoornse Bosch. Karl Presser entered Westerbork on 4 February 1943 and was deported to Auschwitz on 9 February 1943. His official date of death is 4.30.1943.

The former husband and father Mozes Presser went to Westerbork at the beginning of October 1942, probably from a labor camp where he had been since the beginning of August. In Eindhoven he had lived at Kamillestraat 33. Mozes was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 15 October 1942 and murdered there.

Translator: Richard Levy
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: February 2018
© Susanne Lohmeyer

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; StaH 314-15 OFP, FVg 3866 und FVg 3867; HAB II 1910–1935; www.euhausen-klaus.de/oldersumerjuden.htm#POLAK. Zugriff am 22.6.2012; www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de. Zugriff am 25.6.2012; www.joodsmonument.nl. Zugriff am 25.6.2012; Auskunft von José Martin, Kamp Westerbork vom 2.7.2012.
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