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Edith Philipp (née Lichtenstein) * 1899

Heinrich-Barth-Straße 11 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

1941 Lodz
ermordet

further stumbling stones in Heinrich-Barth-Straße 11:
Anna Arendar, Mendel Arendar, Ludwig Philipp, Claus Salig

Edith Philipp, née Lichtenstein, born 3/19/1899 in Eisenach, deported to the Lodz ghetto on 10/25/1941

Edith Philipp was born as Edith Bertha Lichtenstein on March 19th, 1899 as the daughter of Simon and Agnès Lichtenstein, née Simon in Eisenach, Thuringia. She was the eldest of the family's six children.

Between 1903 and 1906, the family with Edith and her brothers Salomon Siegfried and Felix moved to Oberhausen, Friedrich-Karl-Strasse 30. The further children Willy, Jeanette and Erwin were born there.

All the Philipp children attended the local Jewish elementary school.

After finishing school, Edith worked in the family business founded by her father, a flourishing umbrella store with its own repair shop. Edith's father died in 1914, and her mother took over the management and expanded the business.

Nothing is known about Edith's life between 1914 and 1930, when she married Ludwig Philipp on May 16th in Oberhausen. Immediately after their marriage, the couple moved to Hamburg, Ludwig's hometown, to an Apartment at Wagenfelderstrasse 10 in Barmbek. On October 1st, 1935, they moved to Barmbeker Strasse 85, 3rd floor.

Edith was without employment in Hamburg. Occasionally, she took jobs as "morning maid", i.e. she worked as a housemaid or cleaning woman on an hourly basis, with total weekly earnings of 3.30 RM. Her husband Ludwig had a good salary as an employee of the Arnold Bernstein shipping company who specialized in passages to overseas and Palestine – a good business in view of increasing Jewish emigration. But then, the office of the Chief Finance Administrator initiated criminal proceedings for violation of the currency regulations against the company's owner. Bernstein was sentenced to jail, and the enterprise was forcibly sold, which meant that all Jewish employees lost their jobs, including Ludwig Philipp. The couple had to economize and give up their apartment. On March 17th, 1938, they moved to Heinrich-Barth-Strasse 11, 4th floor, where they lived as subtenants with the Wallach family.

There, they received the deportation order. On October 25th, 1941, Edith and Ludwig Philipp and their fellow sufferers were deported from Hamburg's Hannöversche Bahnhof Railroad Station to the ghetto of Lodz or "Litzmannstadt", as the German occupants had renamed the Polish town. First assigned to another collective lodging, they were reassigned to Cranachstrasse 15, apartment 43 on January 6th, 1942, where their trace disappears. Nothing is known about the last weeks of Edith Philipp, her work or the date of her death. Like other victims of the holocaust, she was declared dead effective May 8th, 1945, the day the war ended.

The Stumbling Stone for Edith Philipp was laid before Heinrich-Barth-Strasse 11, her last residence in Hamburg.

Translated by Peter Hubschmid
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: February 2018
© Olga Dyundikova

Quellen: StaHH 314-15 Oberfinanzpräsident; StaHH 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung; StaHH 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 992b Kultussteuerkartei; Archivum Panstowe w Lodzi, div. Dokumente.