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Gidel Julie Josephs (née Goldberg) * 1894

Hudtwalckerstraße 28 (Hudtwalkertwiete 4) (Hamburg-Nord, Winterhude)

HIER WOHNTE
GIDEL JULIE JOSEPHS
GEB. GOLDBERG
JG. 1894
DEPORTIERT 1941
MINSK
ERMORDET

further stumbling stones in Hudtwalckerstraße 28 (Hudtwalkertwiete 4):
Benjamin Martin Josephs, Hannah Josephs

Julie Josephs, née Goldberg, born 19.11.1894 in Melsungen, deported to Minsk Ghetto on 8.11.1941

Hudtwalckerstraße 28 (Hudtwalckertwiete 4) (Winterhude)

Gidel, called Julie Goldberg was born in 1894 in Melsungen, North Hesse; already on her birth certificate was written "Gidel called Julie." She was followed by her siblings Paula, later married Cohn (born 20.2.1896 in Melsungen), Frieda, later married Oppenheimer (born 23.11.1897 in Melsungen), Gole, called Clara (1899-1900), Albert Abraham (born 19.6.1901 in Melsungen), Minna, later married Friedheim (born 5.12.1902 in Melsungen) and Ernst (born 26.5.1904 in Melsungen).

The parents, merchant Salomon Jakob Goldberg (born 25.7.1856 in Mansbach) and Malchen Goldberg, née Stern (born 8.2.1867 in Langenschwarz), had married in 1893 in Langenschwarz in Eastern Hesse, for the groom it was the second marriage. Salomon Goldberg worked as a wood and coal merchant in Melsungen, the family's last residence was at Lindenbergstraße 9. The father and breadwinner of the family died in 1917 at the age of 61. His 16 and 13 year old sons were not yet old enough to take over their father's business and continue the household in his place.

In December 1920, Julie Goldberg moved from Melsungen to Hamburg. On her Hamburg registration card, she was listed as a saleswoman by profession and as her home address at Feßlerstraße 2 I. Floor bei Franck (Barmbek). At the beginning of April 1922, her sister Frieda, who came from Uslar (about 90 km north of Melsungen), also worked as a saleswoman, moved here.

On April 21, 1922, Julie Goldberg married the Hamburg merchant Benjamin Meyer called Martin Josephs (born 18.1.1886 in Jever) and moved in with him in the Hamburg district of Winterhude at Alsterdorfer Straße 18. The witnesses to the marriage were the merchant Julius van Cleef (1877-1941/42) from Isestraße 49 and the merchant Hermann Franck (1875-1943) from Feßlerstraße 2.

Their daughter Hannah was born at Alsterdorfer Straße 18 on March 21, 1923. Julie's sister Frieda had moved in with them in November 1922 and lived there until her marriage in June 1924. The witnesses at this marriage were merchant Hermann Oppenheimer (60 years old, living at Lappenbergsallee 24) and 38-year-old Martin Josephs. With her husband, the bank clerk Max Siegfried Oppenheimer (born 11.4.1892 in Hamburg), and the two children Alfred (born 1926 in Hamburg) and Eva (born 1929 in Hamburg), Frieda Oppenheimer, née Goldberg lived nearby at Hudtwalckerstraße 37 I. Stock (among others 1930-1941).

Around 1931, Martin Josephs expanded the product range of his store to include curtains and beds and rented another store for this purpose at Alsterdorfer Straße 4 near the Winterhude marketplace. It can be assumed that Julie Josephs worked in the store. It is possible that she began working here as a saleswoman in Hamburg in 1920. We do not know whether she used the sewing machine there to make alterations for her customers.

The annual income of the two stores amounted at times to 6,000 to 8,000 Reichsmarks, as the Office for Restitution calculated in 1959. Accordingly, the apartments of the Josephs family at Alsterdorfer Strasse 18/20 II. Stock (among others 1922-1924), Alsterdorfer Straße 20 IV. floor (1927-1929), Hudtwalckerstraße 35 II. Stock (1930-1936) and Hudtwalckertwiete 4 II. Stock (1936-1940) were furnished with solid wooden furniture: the men's room with bookcase, desk, armchair and smoking table with marble top, the living and dining room with buffet cabinet, extending table and 6 chairs.

The boycott measures against Jewish businesses in 1933 also led to massive declines in sales and profits at Josephs. Nevertheless, they supported Margarethe Kaiser, née Josephs from Frankenberg, with monthly payments.

The dictatorship of the National Socialists issued more and more new regulations that excluded Jews from Nazi German society. For example, as of November 12, 1938, they were no longer allowed to attend theaters, concerts, and exhibitions. And from September 1939, they were only allowed to shop in separate stores.

The order to close Jewish stores at the end of December 1938 had also led to a distress sale at Joseph's well below value. The proceeds from the sale had to be paid into an account - as ordered by the Foreign Exchange Office - from which the Josephs were only allowed to dispose of an approved monthly amount.

In addition, in June 1940 they had to move into a building at Haynstraße 5 (Eppendorf), which had been declared a "Judenhaus". There they occupied a room as subtenants. The daughter was given accommodation at Beneckestraße 6 (Rotherbaum).

Julie Josephs was deported to Minsk with her husband and her now 18-year-old daughter on November 8, 1941. Also on the deportation train was her sister Paula Cohn, née Goldberg (see www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de) with her husband Julius Cohn (born 16.1.1886 in Hamburg); Stolpersteine were laid for both of them at Dillstraße 16 (Rotherbaum).


Julie's brother Albert Abraham Goldberg (deported 1.6.1942 from Kassel to extermination camp Sobibor and on 23.9.1942 further to concentration camp Majdanek) and her half-sister Betty Goldberg (deported 12.11.1941 from Frankfurt/Main to Minsk) were also murdered.

Her sister Frieda Oppenheimer, née Goldberg, emigrated with her husband and two children to the USA in New York in June 1941.

Translation Beate Meyer

Stand: February 2023
© Björn Eggert

Quellen: Staatsarchiv Hamburg (StaH) 213-13 (Landgericht Hamburg, Wiedergutmachung), 25134 (Martin Josephs, darin Auflistung der versteigerten Möbel 1941/42); StaH 314-15 (Oberfinanzpräsident), R 1939/2487 (Sicherungsanordnung gegen Martin Josephs); StaH 332-5 (Standesämter), 9591 u. 263/1922 (Heiratsregister 1922, Martin Josephs u. Gidel/Julie Goldberg); StaH 332-5 (Standesämter), 9600 u. 333/1924 (Heiratsregister 1924, Max Siegfried Oppenheimer u. Frieda Goldberg); StaH 332-5 (Standesämter), 13291 u. 375/1930 (Heiratsregister 1930, Julius Cohn u. Paula Goldberg); StaH 332-8 (Meldewesen), K 6139 (Alte Einwohnermeldekartei 1892-1925), Frieda Goldberg, Julie Goldberg, Paula Goldberg; StaH 351-11 (Amt für Wiedergutmachung), 8676 (Benjamin Meyer genannt Martin Josephs); StaH 522-1 (Jüdische Gemeinden), 992b (Kultussteuerkartei der Deutsch-Israelitischen Gemeinde Hamburg), Martin Benjamin Josephs, Hannah Josephs, Paula Cohn geb. Goldberg, Julius Cohn, Max Siegfried Oppenheimer; Standesamt Langenschwarz-Grosenmoor Nr. 7/1893 (Heiratsregister 1893, Salomon Goldberg u. Malchen Stern); Standesamt Melsungen 4582 u. 131/1894 (Geburtsregister 1894, Gidel genannt Julie Goldberg); Standesamt Melsungen 4584 u. 27/1896 (Geburtsregister 1896, Paula Goldberg); Standesamt Melsungen 4585 u. 169/1897 (Geburtsregister 1897, Frieda Goldberg); Standesamt Melsungen 4587 u. 16/1899 (Geburtsregister 1899, Gole genannt Clara Goldberg); Standesamt Melsungen 4665 u. 35/1900 (Sterberegister 1900, Gole genannt Clara Goldberg); Standesamt Melsungen 4682 u. 80/1917 (Sterberegister 1917, Jakob Salomon Goldberg); Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (HHStAW), Bestand 365 (Judenregister aus hessischen Gemeinden), 596 (Melsungen, Verzeichnis der Grabsteine auf dem Jüdischen Friedhof, Nr.1-147), Nr. 45 Jacob Goldberg (19.4.1880), Nr. 66 Jacob Salomon Goldberg, Nr. 67 Amalie Goldberg geb. Stern, Nr. 87 Röschen Goldberg geb. Reinhardt (17.3.1843-20.5.1931), Nr. 101 Minna Goldberg; Bundesarchiv Koblenz, Gedenkbuch, Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 (Paula Cohn geb. Goldberg, Albert Abraham Goldberg, Betty Goldberg); Adressbuch Hamburg (Hudtwalckerstraße 35) 1930, 1932, 1936; www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de (Martin Josephs, Hannah Josephs, Paula Cohn geb. Goldberg, Hermann Franck).