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Karoline Steinberg (née Asser) * 1895
Hirtenstraße 55 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)
1941 Lodz
ermordet am 9.7.1944
further stumbling stones in Hirtenstraße 55:
Henry Steinberg
Henri Steinberg, born on 2 Sept. 1885 in Burgdorf, deported on 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz, date of death there 6 Sept. 1942
Karoline Steinberg, née Asser, born on 22 Oct. 1895 in Kupferdreh, deported on 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz, date of death 9 July 1944 in Auschwitz
How did a 12-year-old child survive the Lodz Ghetto and later the Auschwitz concentration camp?
Together with his father, Henri Steinberg, born on 2 Sept. 1885 in Burgdorf, and his mother Karoline, née Asser, born on 22 Oct. 1895 in Kupferdreh, Kurt Steinberg, born on 21 Aug. 1929, was deported to the Lodz Ghetto on 25 Oct. 1941. They were assigned accommodation at Alexanderhofstrasse 37/8a. From 6 Nov. 1942 onward, only Karoline and Kurt Steinberg were registered, she as a homemaker, he as a student. In his memoirs, Kurt indicates that his father died of malnutrition that September. On 20 Aug. 1943, the mother and son moved to Fischstrasse 14a/13 and on 24 July 1944 to Sperlingstrasse 16/14. As Kurt Steinberg, who later went by the name of Stanton Curtis, reported, in July 1944, right after the dissolution of the ghetto, he was taken with his mother to Auschwitz, where they were separated immediately upon arrival. Kurt, by then nearly 15 years old, pretended he was 17, which directly saved his life. He was assigned to the "Kanada-Kommando." In this unit, he had to sort the clothes of the persons just murdered in the gas chambers. As Soviet troops advanced, he was first taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp, then to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He survived the death march from there to Lübeck, where the British Army liberated him. His mother had apparently been murdered immediately.
Kurt Steinberg moved to his siblings in Great Britain and attended a business school and a technical college. After a few intermediate stops, he took up residence with his family in Porto Alegre/Brazil.
His father, Henri Steinberg, had been married in his first marital union with Erna, née Asser, born on 6 July 1897. Initially, they resided at Durchschnitt 1, subsequently moving to Hamm and living at three other addresses, before settling at Hirtenstrasse 55. They had one daughter, Irmgard, born on 20 Aug. 1923, and a son, Rolf, born on 16 Oct. 1924. Henri Steinberg worked as general manager for the Gebr. [Bros.] Heilbutt Company and then took over the management of a small branch of the Karstadt Department Store on Röhrendamm in Rothenburgsort.
On 16 Sept. 1923, Henri and Erna Steinberg joined the German-Israelitic Community and reserved a grave for themselves in the cemetery on Bornkampsweg. When Erna Steinberg died in 1927, she was buried there.
Apparently, Henri Steinberg then married his sister-in-law Karoline, née Asser, born on 22 Oct. 1895. On 21 Aug. 1929, their son Kurt was born. In 1934, Henri Steinberg was dismissed from his position at Karstadt and remained unemployed until his deportation. He lived on his war pension and received a small subsidy from the welfare office in Oct. 1940. In addition, the Steinbergs rented out a room. Until about 1936, Georg Traube resided with them. He then moved to Hammer Weg 37 with Löw (see corresponding entry). In 1939, Fritz Heymannsohn or, respectively Heinsen, was registered as living with them. Both subtenants also became victims of Nazi persecution.
Henri Steinberg’s "big” children were sent to Britain on a children’s transport (Kindertransport) and thus saved.
Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: January 2019
© Hildegard Thevs
Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 8; 9; Hamburger Adressbücher; Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin, 5.12-3/20 Statistisches Landesamt (1851-1945); StaH, 213-13, 13014; 332-5, Geburts-, Heirats-, Sterberegister; 351-11, 8132; 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, 390 Wählerverzeichnis 1930; 391 Mitgliederliste 1935; 922 e 2 Deportationslisten Bd. 1 - 5; Abl. 1993, Ordner 10; Michael Nüssen: Schriftliche Zusammenfassung von E-Mails und dem Interview mit Curtis Stanton aus der "Werkstatt der Erinnerung" der Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg; Archivum Panstwowe, Lodz; Verwaltung Jüdischer Friedhof Ohlsdorf; http://www.jüdischer-friedhof-altona.de/datenbank.html, Friedhofsdatenbank Bornkampsweg, Zugriff 15.2.2018; persönliche Mitteilungen von Ralph Bollhorn v. 10.2.2018.
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