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Ida Loeb (Löb) * 1876

Abendrothsweg 48 (Hamburg-Nord, Hoheluft-Ost)

1941 Riga

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Ida Loeb, born on 26 Feb. 1876 in Mannheim, deported on 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga

Abendrothsweg 48

Ida Loeb grew up in a large family with five sisters and two brothers. The youngest and the third brother had already died shortly after birth. Ida’s parents, Isaac, and Emma Loeb, had moved from Frankenthal in what was then the Bavarian Palatinate to Mannheim two years before the birth of Ida and her twin brother Hugo Daniel. There, the father traded in agricultural products in the Gebrüder Loeb (Loeb Brothers) Company. The mother took care of the children and managed the household. In the resident registration records filed since the beginning of the twentieth century, five daughters and one son are documented. Probably two additional children died.

Ida Loeb remained unmarried. After the death of her father in Dec. 1914, she took on a job as a domestic help in Bad Salzungen. It was also there, in the area between the Thuringian Forest and the Rhön Mountains, that her twin brother got married, who had moved to Erfurt in 1900. He had likely met a friend or colleague of Ida in Bad Salzungen.

In 1921, Ida Loeb had herself registered with the Jewish Community in Hamburg. In the following years, she worked as a domestic help in Klosterallee, Isestrasse, Hoheluftchaussee, and Abendrothsweg. As was usual at the time, she managed households in return for room and board, receiving only a small allowance. In any case, her remuneration was never high enough for her to pay Jewish religious taxes (Kultussteuer). Since 1937, Ida Loeb was 59 years by then, she received a modest salary earners’ pension.

In 1939, when all male and female Jews were registered, she shared an apartment with two women and one man on the ground floor of Löwenstrasse 38. At the beginning of Oct. 1940, she left Hamburg and moved to her native city of Mannheim, where she lived with her younger, also unmarried sister Marie, who had worked as a milliner. Her sister Alice also lived there by then, at Lameystrasse 20. (The mother, Emma Loeb, had already passed away in 1928.)

Ida’s sisters Alice and Marie Loeb received an "evacuation order” ("Evakuierungsbefehl”) one year later, in 1941. They were among the 1,018 persons from Baden and the Palatinate deported to the Lodz Ghetto on 22 Oct. 1941. Ida Loeb went back to Hamburg, probably in the hope of evading the "evacuation.” However, one month later, the Gestapo sent her the deportation order as well. She was deported to Riga in Dec. 1941 and has been considered missing since then.

Her sister Regina was married to the merchant Albert Prinz since 1912. The childless couple was deported to Gurs (in France) on 22 October 1940. Regina Prinz’ traces disappear in the Nexon internment camp, where she was deported in Oct. 1942. Albert Prinz was on Transport no. 50, which went to the Majdanek extermination camp on 4 Mar 1943. He was probably murdered there.

We know nothing about the fate of Ida Loeb’s twin brother. Her sister Charlotte survived the Shoah. She was married to the Jewish businessman Sali Maier. After his death in 1919, she took over the fashion and textiles goods business, which she had to give up in 1938. In 1939, she succeeded in fleeing to New York, where she lived until her death in June 1948.


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

Stand: March 2017
© Maria Koser

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