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Caesar Laski * 1871
Isestraße 79 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)
1941 Lodz
ermordet in Chelmno 1942
further stumbling stones in Isestraße 79:
Charlotte Hecht, Ephraim Hirsch, Ernestine Hirsch, Ilse Hirsch, Minna Hirsch, Ida Koppel, Henriette Kuppermann, Nelly Kuppermann, Gerda Kuppermann
Caesar Laski, born 2 Nov. 1871 in Hamburg, deported 25 Oct. 1941 to Lodz, transferred 10 May 1942 to Chelmno, murdered there
Caesar Laski’s parents sent their son to the Wilhlem Gymnasium. It was located on the Moorweide until the building was destroyed by bombs in 1945, and was known for its acceptance of Jewish pupils.
At the turn of the century, about one quarter of the pupils at the Wilhelm Gymnasium were Jewish. Caesar Laski studied Latin and Greek there. His daughter remembered that he could quote verses form Homer’s Iliad. After finishing his schooling, Laski spent a year in Scotland in order to improve his English.
In 1889 he opened his own company, Caesar Laski & Co., a brokerage company for grain and feed.
He married Martha Streicher (*17 February 1877). The couple adopted a girl, Dora. The business flourished until 1930, after which the family often had to change addresses, probably for financial reasons. Martha Laski died on 2 April 1934, and the company was liquidated in 1936. Caesar Laski now had no income, and was supported by his sisters and friends. At this time he was living at Isestraße 79. His daughter Dora worked at the Hamburg German-Israelitic Community’s hospital. She married in September 1937, and she and her husband (Lekisch) emigrated to the US later that year.
Caesar Laski was deported to Lodz on 25 October 1941. He was quartered at Hausierergasse 1 in the ghetto. His registration card listed his profession as businessman. In Mai 1942, aged 71, he and most of the other Jews deported to Riga from Hamburg were sent to Chelmno and murdered in gas wagons.
Translator: Amy Lee
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: March 2017
© Maike Grünwaldt
Quellen: 1; 4; 8; AfW 290516; Helga Krohn, Die Juden in Hamburg, Hamburg 1974, S. 158.
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