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Emmy Schweedt (née Guth) * 1872

Hoheluftchaussee 40 (Hamburg-Nord, Hoheluft-Ost)

1944 Theresienstadt
weiterdeportiert nach Auschwitz

Emmy Schweedt, née Guth, born on 6 July 1872 in Dirschau (today Tczew in Poland), deported on 19 Jan. 1944 to Theresienstadt, deported further on 15 May 1944 to Auschwitz

Hoheluftchaussee 40

We know about Emmy Schweedt that she was married to Carl F. F. Schweedt, born on 9 Feb. 1865 in Hamburg. After passage of the Nuremberg laws (on race) in Sept. 1935, Emmy was [classified as] living in a "privileged” mixed marriage ("privilegierte” Mischehe) because her husband was an "Aryan.” Thus, as a Jewish woman she was initially spared certain anti-Jewish measures.

The addresses indicated in the Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer) card file are Hoheluftchaussee 40 on the second floor since 3 Nov. 1936 and Rentzelstrasse 2 since 27 June 1941. The Jewish religious tax file card contains the following note: "Non-member of the Reichsvereinigung [Reich Association of Jews in Germany].”

The encroachment of the Nazis also aimed against the Jewish partners in dissolved "mixed marriages;” Emmy Schweedt was affected by this as well. We do not know whether her husband had already passed away by this time or whether the couple had got divorced due to being pressured. On 19 Jan. 1944, she was deported on Transport VI / 9-53 to Theresienstadt. This was a small transport made up of 61 deportees. From Theresienstadt, she was deported further on 15 May 1944 to Auschwitz on Transport DZ-1748, which included 2,501 persons overall. Only 137 persons survived; Emmy Schweedt was not among their number.



Translator: Erwin Fink
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