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Elsa Sprei * 1900

Isestraße 21 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)

1941 Lodz

further stumbling stones in Isestraße 21:
Magda Levy, Sabine Levy, Recha Lübke, Carl Richard Sohn, Martha Sohn, Vilma Lore Sohn, Mary Stern, Julchen Tobias, Julia Weber

Elsa Sprei, born on 11 Nov. 1900 in Nowy Wisnicz in Poland, deported on 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz

Else Sprei’s parents were Heinrich and Lotti Sprei. Since 1936 at the latest, Elsa Sprei worked as an office employee and – according to the deportation list – subsequently as a domestic help in Hamburg. She resided at Isestrasse 21 as a subtenant of Recha Lübke.

On 25 Oct. 1941, she was deported to the Lodz Ghetto. She lived there at Hausierer Gasse 6 on the fourth floor and probably worked in the camp’s workshops. Whether she died due to the inhumane living conditions or when and where she was murdered is not known.


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


Stand: January 2019
© Christine Zinn-Lührig

Quellen: 1; 4; 8; StaH, 522-1 Jüd. Gemeinden, 992 e 2, Bd.1.
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