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Isidor Plaut * 1873

Grindelallee 35 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
ISIDOR PLAUT
JG. 1873
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET FEB. 1944

Isidor Plaut, born on 20 Nov. 1873 in Frankfurt/Main, deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on 18 Aug. 1942, murdered there between 1 and 17 Feb. 1944

Grindelallee 35

Isidor Plaut’s parents were Hirsch Plaut and Mathilde, née Berg. He was married to Amalie "Male,” née Levy, born on 10 Nov. 1878 in Altona. The couple had two children: Rosi Lilli, born on 21 Jan. 1913, and Leonhard Bernhard, born on 2 Feb. 1917 (see Stolpersteine in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel and Hoheluft-West and www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de). Isidor worked at the Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetery. The family lived first at Blücherstrasse 27, then on Ihlandstrasse (near the Jewish Cemetery), and finally at Grindelallee 35. From 1914, Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer) payments to the Hamburg Jewish Community were recorded for the first time. Amalie Plaut died in 1929 and left behind her husband Isidor with Rosi, by then 16 years old, Leonhard, by then 12 years old.

In the year power was transferred to the Nazis, Isidor Plaut left Hamburg and moved to Berlin in Nov. 1933.

His son Leonhard became the director of a children’s home and on 1 Mar. 1940, he married Marianne Hoffmann, who was five years his junior and born on 10 Apr. 1922. She came from Breslau (today Wroclaw in Poland), where the wedding also took place. The couple lived at Kielortallee 13 in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel. Marianne’s mother Helene Hoffmann also moved there after Marianne’s father Ismar had passed away. All three relocated to Berlin as well: Helene Hoffmann in Dec. 1940, Leonhard and Marianne in Jan. 1941.

Isidor Plaut was deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on 18 Aug. 1942 and murdered there. On 18 May 1943, his son Leonhard Plaut was also taken from Berlin to Theresienstadt, from there to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 Oct. 1944, and ten days later to the Kaufering subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp, where he had to perform forced labor. Leonhard’s wife Marianne had been deported from Berlin to Auschwitz a few weeks before him, on 19 Feb. 1943, and had been murdered there. On 8 Mar. 1945, he was transferred to the Kaufering camp VI, Türkheim. Leonhard Plaut probably experienced the liberation of the camp on 29 Apr. 1945, but died shortly afterward.

For Leonhard and Marianne Plaut, Stolpersteine are located at Kielortallee 13.

Differing pieces of information exist about Isidor Plaut’s daughter Rosi, each based on genealogical research. According to one source, she survived the Shoah, married Sandor Maibaum in the USA, and had two sons with him. According to another source, she married Sandor Maibaum (1908–1985) in 1935 while still in Germany. The two sons were named Walter Franklin and Lawrence Robert. Rosi Plaut died in the Shoah in 1942.

Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

© Frauke Steinhäuser

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 8; Lohmeyer: Plaut; http: //jinh.lima-city.de/gene/chris/c1/c1_0006.htm#BM1513 (letzter Aufruf: 5.10.2016).
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