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Ida Loeb (Löb) * 1876

Abendrothsweg 48 (Hamburg-Nord, Hoheluft-Ost)

1941 Riga

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Ida Loeb, born 26.2.1876 in Mannheim, deported to Riga on 6.12.1941

Abendrothsweg 48

Ida Loeb grew up in a large family with six sisters and three brothers. The younger sister Clara and the youngest, third brother, Oskar-Jacob, had already died in infancy. Ida's parents, Isaac and Emma Loeb, née Loeb, had moved to Mannheim from Frankenthal, then in the Bavarian Palatinate, two years before Ida's birth and that of her twin brother Hugo Daniel. There, her father traded in agricultural products in the Loeb brothers' company. Her mother looked after the children and ran the household. We do not know anything else about her childhood and school years.

Ida Loeb did not marry. In 1914, she lived in Bad Salzungen on Nappenplatz and owned a small cleaning and fashion shop in Bahnhofstraße. Her twin brother, who had married for the first time in 1906 and ran a shoe warehouse with his wife Lina, also lived here, between the Thuringian Forest and the Rhön.

In 1921, Ida Loeb registered with the Jewish Community in Hamburg. In the following years, she worked as a domestic servant in Klosterallee, Isestraße, Hoheluftchaussee and Abendrothsweg. As usual, she ran the households for board and lodging and only received a small allowance. In any case, her salary was never so high that she had to pay religious taxes. From 1937, when Ida Loeb was 59 years old, she received a small employee pension.

When all Jews were registered on supplementary cards during the census in May 1939, she shared an apartment on the first floor of Löwenstraße 38 with two women and a man. At the beginning of October 1940, she left Hamburg and moved back to her native Mannheim, where she lived with her younger, also unmarried sister Marie, who had worked as a cleaner. Her sister Alice also lived there in the meantime, at Lameystraße 20 (their father Isaac Loeb had already died in December 1914, their mother Emma Loeb in September 1928).

Ida's sisters Alice and Marie Loeb received an "evacuation order” a year later. They were among the 1018 people from Baden and the Palatinate who were deported to the Lodz ghetto on October 22, 1941.

Ida Loeb went back to Hamburg, perhaps in the hope of escaping the "evacuation” here. A month later, however, the Gestapo also served her with the deportation order. One month later, however, the Gestapo also served her with a deportation order. She was deported to Riga in December 1941 and has been missing ever since.

Ida Loeb's twin brother Hugo Gabriel Loeb was arrested during the November pogrom in Bad Salzungen and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. He returned from there terminally ill and died on November 29, 1938.

Her sister Regina Prinz, nee Loeb, had been married to the merchant Albert Prinz since 1912. The childless couple was deported to Gurs on October 22, 1940 as part of the early deportation of Jews from the Saar Palatinate. Regina Prinz's traces are lost in the Nexon internment camp, to which she was deported in October 1942. Albert Prinz was on transport number 50, which left for the Majdanek extermination camp on March 4, 1943. He was presumably murdered there.

All we know about her sister Luise Lucia Loeb is that she died in 1930 in Shelby County, Tennessee in the USA.

Ida's brother Simon Loeb had emigrated to relatives in the USA in 1895 at the age of 17. He was married and lived with his wife Della Melinda Cox and their daughter Johanna in Florida until his death in 1961.

Ida's sister Charlotte Maier, neé Loeb, also survived the Shoah. She was married to the Jewish businessman Sali Maier. After his death in 1919, she took over the fashion and textile business, which she had to give up in 1938. In 1939, she managed to flee to New York, where she lived until her death in June 1948

Translator: Erwin Fink 2017, Changes Beate Meyer December 2024
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.


Stand: December 2024
© Maria Koser

Quellen: 1; 4; 6; 8; 9; StaH 522-1 Jüd. Gemeinden, 992e2 Band 3; Recherche und Auskunft Hans Joachim Hirsch, Institut für Stadtgeschichte, Stadtarchiv Mannheim vom 9.2.2010; E-Mail von Antje Schneider, Archiv der Stadtverwaltung Bad Salzungen vom 18.11.2024;
https://www.badsalzungen.de/de/liste-der-opfer-des-holocaust-der-stadt-bad-salzungen/loeb-hugo-gabriel-20011422.html, Zugriff am 12.12.2024;
Hugo Gabriel und Hilda Loeb, Nappenplatz 3https://www.badsalzungen.de>datei>download eingesehen am 15.12.2024;
www.ancestry.de (Charlotte Loeb: Declaration of Intention, USA, Charlotte Loeb-Maier von 1941, Adressbuch Mannheim von 1930) Zugriff am 21.12.2024; www.ancestry.de (Simon Loeb: Hamburger Passagierlisten 1850-1934 von 1895, Florida, USA, Einbürgerungsregister 1847-1995, TwelfthCensusofthe United States 1900) Zugriff am 21.12.2024; www.ancestry.de (Luise Lucia Loeb:FelsenthalTree _2023-08-20) Zugriff am 22.12.2024.
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