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Marta Kureck * 1899

Lindenstraße 21 (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Georg)

HIER WOHNTE
MARTA KURECK
JG. 1899
DEPORTIERT
AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET 21.2.1943

Marta Kureck, born 17 June 1899 in Groß Mochbern (near Breslau), died 21 Feb. 1943 in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Last residential address: Lindenstraße 21

Marta Kureck was one of four children of Karl and Anna (Methmann) Kureck. The family was of the Catholic faith. She seems to have lived in or around Breslau until the end of the 1920s. She was unmarried, and by 1928 had several convictions for theft and fraud. Prison records in Hamburg from 1933/34 list trials in 1931 in Lübeck and 1933 in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim. On 10 May 1933 she was sentenced to one year in prison for repeated counts of theft. She was released on 10 May 1934. It can be assumed that she remained in Hamburg, as the address on her death certificate, which was issued upon her death in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, is listed as Lindenstraße 21 in St. Georg. It is not known when or why she was deported to Auschwitz. In all likelihood she was a victim of the Nazis’ persecution of "anti-socials and professional criminals.”

Translator: Amy Lee

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2016
© Benedikt Behrens

Quelle: StaH 242 – II Gefängnisverwaltung II, Abl. 13; Schreiben des staatl. Museums Auschwitz-Birkenau v. 30.6.2005 und E-Mail dess. v. 5.8.2005.