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Alfons Hirschel * 1894
Kottwitzstraße 19 (Eimsbüttel, Hoheluft-West)
HIER WOHNTE
ALFONS HIRSCHEL
JG. 1894
DEPORTIERT 1941
EERMORDET IN
RIGA
further stumbling stones in Kottwitzstraße 19:
Ilse Hirschel, Marion Hirschel, Walter Lau
Alfons Hirschel, born 28 Nov. 1894 in Hamburg, deported 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga
Ilse Hirschel, née Rosenberg, born 1 July 1904 in Hamburg, deported 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga
Marion Hirschel, born 24 Mar. 1928 in Kiel, deported 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga, deported 1 Oct. 1944 to the Stutthof concentration camp, perished there
Kottwitzstraße 19 (Blücherstraße 19)
Alfons Hirschel’s parents were the Jewish merchant Isaac Israel Hirschel and Mathilde, née Steinhardt. When Alfons Hirschel was born, his parents lived at Altonaer Straße 22. His later wife Ilse was also from Hamburg. At the time the travelling businessman Alfons Hirschel and Ilse Rosenberg married in 1924, Alfons lived at Ludolfstraße 4 and Ilse at Hoheluftchaussee 119, presumably with her parents. Alfons Hirschel traded in leather goods. In Mar. 1928, their daughter Marion was born in Kiel.
In May 1939 the family again lived in Hamburg at Heinrich-Barth Straße 8, where they filled out the supplementary form for the census. The Hirschel Family spent their final days before their deportation to Riga at Bundesstraße 35, a so-called Jewish house.
While the parents Alfons and Ilse Hirschel perished during the winter of 1941/42 or in the mass shooting of "Operation Dünamünde", Marion Hirschel managed to leave Riga-Jungfernhof, probably for the Riga Ghetto. She survived the ensuing forced labor and relocation of the Jewish prisoners before the advancing Red Army in the summer of 1944. The SS concentrated the Jews who had been deported to the Baltic States at Stutthof concentration camp. The camp’s registrar noted Marion Hirschel’s arrival on 1 Oct. 1944. When and where she died at that camp is not known.
Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: October 2016
© Jonas Stier
Quellen: 1; 5; StaH 332-5 Standesämter, 9106 + 2847/1894; StaH 332-5, 8795 + 173/1924; Beate Meyer (Hrsg.), Die Verfolgung und Ermordung, S. 51.
