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Emil Seidner * 1879

Eppendorfer Stieg 11 (Hamburg-Nord, Winterhude)

1941 Minsk

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Anna Seidner

Emil Seidner, born on 8 Dec. 1879 in Jungbunzlau/Bohemia (today Mlada Boleslav in the Czech Republic), deported on 8 Nov. 1941 to Minsk, date of death unknown
Anna Seidner, née Peschek, born on 24 Mar. 1885 in Serowitz/Bohemia (today Syrovice in the Czech Republic), deported on 8 Nov. 1941 to Minsk, date of death unknown

Emil Seidner was the son of Isidor Seidner and his wife Julie, née Strachnow. We do not know when he married his wife Anna and when they took up residence in Hamburg. The two children of the married Jewish couple, Gertrud (on 21 July 1910) and Walter (on 24 Oct. 1912) were born in Hamburg. Emil Seidner was an accountant by occupation and worked for Albert Zinner, a dry goods wholesale company on Lange Reihe. At the end of Jan. 1939, he lost his job.

Whereas the grown-up children succeeded in emigrating – Gertrud went to Palestine, Walter to Britain in Mar. 1939 – the parents Anna and Emil remained in Hamburg. On 8 Nov. 1941, they obeyed the deportation order to Minsk. When the Hamburg residents arrived there on 10 November, they encountered the dead bodies of the previous ghetto occupants, murdered just before by the SS, and they were put up in the quarters vacated in this way.

Anna and Emil Seidner did not survive the forced labor and the inadequate provisions in the ghetto and they were declared dead after the war.


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

Stand: January 2019
© Ulrike Sparr

Quellen: 1; 4; 8; AfW 240385; AB 1935 (Bd. 1); Beate Meyer (Hrsg.), Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der Hamburg Juden 1933–1945, Hamburg 2006, S. 62ff.
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