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Arnold Ruben * 1899
Launitzweg 5 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)
1941 Lodz
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Margot Ruben
Arnold Ruben, born on 8 Feb. 1899 in Kobelhals (today Kobylocha in Poland), deported on 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz
Margot Ruben, née Meilich, born on 11 Apr. 1913 Allenstein (today Olsztyn in Poland), deported on 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz
Launitzweg 5
"Due to the care of the Jewish Community, I came as a refugee child to live with the R. family in O., where I stayed from then on.” This is how the only daughter of the married couple Margot and Arnold Ruben, Ingeborg, summed up in 1950 why she survived.
In July 1930, when Ingeborg was sent to Sweden, she was three and a half years old. In the files associated with the restitution proceedings, she indicated that her father had been unemployed since Oct. 1938 because he was subjected to political persecution. Before that, he had earned a good income as the head of the Ernst Hinterpohl toothpaste and cream factory on Hasselbrookstrasse, since at least 1934. It was not possible to establish evidence of political persecution of Arnold Ruben in the narrow sense of the term.
The sister of Margot Ruben, Lotte H., had emigrated to Britain and testified later that Arnold Ruben had received good schooling, that he was educated and had a lot of interests, and that he took care of "the English correspondence with the representative in Britain of the company he headed in Hamburg.” Accordingly, the social degradation was difficult to cope with and the selling of the apartment furnishings painful to him. Afterward, she added, the Rubens lived only in furnished rooms, at repeatedly changing addresses close to the old place of work. From their last apartment, at Nagelsweg 19, Margot and Arnold Ruben were deported to Lodz on 25 Oct. 1941 and quartered in the ghetto at Gänsenstrasse 7/5 with six persons in one room without a kitchen. After half a year, on 15 May 1942, they were "resettled” ("ausgesiedelt”) again, probably to the Chelmno extermination camp. The last existing signs of life are the registration and deregistration forms from Lodz.
Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: October 2018
© Hildegard Thevs
Quellen: 1; 4; 5; StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, 391 Mitgliederliste 1935; 992 e 2 Deportations- listen Bd. 1; AfW 250136; Archivum Panstwowe, Lodz.
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