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Hencia Linder * 1891

Kajen 5-6 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg-Altstadt)

HIER WOHNTE
HENCIA LINDER
JG. 1891
DEPORTIERT 1941
RIGA
ERMORDET

Hencia Linder, born 5 Sept. 1891 in Tarnów, deported on 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga-Jungfernhof

Kajen 5-6 (formerly Kajen 38)

Little is known about Hencia Linder. She had been born in Tarnów on 5 Sept. 1891, in what was then the Austrian crown land of Galicia. The city, like other towns in Eastern Europe, had a large Jewish population and was a major trading city. Many Jews from Galicia left their homeland after World War I and also settled in Hamburg. When Hencia Linder did this remains unclear. Established facts are that she remained unmarried and earned her living as a domestic servant.

Hencia Linder lived as a subtenant in a room on the fourth floor at Kajen 38, opposite the Speicherstadt (warehouse district). In 1938, she became unemployed and did welfare work (Unterstützungsarbeit) five days a week at the Rosenallee 11 sewing room, then was transferred to another job, to the Botanical School Garden at Ralph Baberadt-Strasse 42 in Fuhlsbüttel.

Hencia Linder’s last Hamburg accommodation was in the "Nordheim-Stift” Jewish retirement home at Schlachterstrasse 40/42, where she probably also worked at this time. She received her deportation order for 6 Dec. 1941. The transport was supposed to go to the ghetto in Riga, but it was diverted to the empty Jungfernhof farming estate. There all traces of her disappear.

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

Stand: May 2021
© Susanne Rosendahl

Quellen: 6; StaH 351-14 Arbeits- und Sozialfürsorge 1486 (Linder, Hansia (Hencia); StaH 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinde Nr. 992 e 2 Band 3; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/de/term/140,tarnow/ (Zugriff 8.12.2016).
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