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Sara Delmonte (née Delmonte) * 1860

Bundesstraße 35 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
SARA DELMONTE
GEB. DELMONTE
JG. 1860
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET IN
TREBLINKA

further stumbling stones in Bundesstraße 35:
Julius Asser, Rosa Bauer, Ernst Antonio Cassuto, Amalie Delmonte, Moses "Martin" Delmonte, Hans Gerson, Margot Gerson, Uri Gerson, Frieda Sternheim

Sara Delmonte, born 26.4.1860, deported to Theresienstadt on 15.7.1942, deported on to Treblinka on 21.9.1942 and murdered

Bundesstraße 35, Eimsbüttel

The Delmonte family belonged to the Portuguese-Jewish community in Hamburg, descendants of the Sephardic Jews who had been expelled from the Iberian Peninsula and then settled in Hamburg towards the end of the 16th century and formed their own community.

Jehuda/Judah Delmonte and Simcha Delmonte, née Sealtiel, had five children: Johanna, born on February 14, 1850, Moses Hajim, born on May 5, 1853, Ester, born on October 8, 1855, Sara, born on April 26, 1860 and Jacob Delmonte, born on August 10, 1862.

Jehuda Delmonte worked as a laborer in the cigar trade.

We have no information about Sara Delmonte's childhood; she later learned the trade of dressmaker.

Sara Delmonte married the cigar worker Jakob Delmonte in Hamburg on December 6, 1887. The families, who were both called Delmonte, had presumably met through the cigar trade. We have not been able to establish a family relationship, but there may have been one a long time ago. Jakob Delmonte was born on April 5, 1857 in Bühne, Warburg district. His parents were Juda/Julius and Betti Delmonte, née Lövi/Lövÿ, who had lived in Altona since 1861.

Jakob and Sara Delmonte had been living with his parents at Oelkersallee 32 in Altona-Nord since December 6, 1887. His father died on May 8, 1887. In the meantime, he and his wife Betti had moved to Sternstraße 91 in St. Pauli and vacated the apartment at Oelkersallee 32 for his son Jakob. After the death of her husband, Betti Delmonte moved back in with her son at Oelkersallee 32, where she died on July 8, 1893.

Jakob and Sara Delmonte had daughters Betty Olga, born on April 12, 1889, and Simcha Erika Delmonte on August 1, 1895. Both daughters later emigrated to the USA: Betty Olga in 1907 and Simcha Erika Delmonte in 1914.

The emigration of the youngest daughter was presumably a reason for the parents to move to a smaller apartment. From August 26, 1914, they lived in a cheap apartment in the Samuel-Levy-Stift at Bundesstraße 35 House A in Eimsbüttel. (This foundation, founded in a will dated July 4, 1841, administered 57 apartments for needy people from 1896 to 1942, which were to be allocated without distinction of denomination. The foundation building was forcibly sold in 1942 and returned to the Jewish Community after 1945. Today there is a university building on the site).

In 1920, Jakob Delmonte's brother Martin and his wife Amalie Delmonte, née Zechlinski, moved into the neighboring house at Bundesstraße 35, House B.

Jakob Delmonte died on April 27, 1923 at the age of 45; we do not know the cause of death. He was buried in the Ilandkoppel Jewish cemetery.

Sara Delmonte continued to live at Bundesstraße 35 House A after her husband's death. The 63-year-old probably supported herself by tailoring. However, her earnings were so low that she was not even assessed for religious tax for the Jewish community.

We have no information about Sara Delmonte for the following years until 1932.

When the National Socialists came to power in the summer of 1933, the everyday lives of Jews in Hamburg changed abruptly. They were excluded from non-Jewish associations, foundations and many areas of society. The Jewish Community became increasingly important as a social center. Among other things, it offered care facilities to alleviate the hardship. Until the end of November 1941, these included serving food to needy members of the community in the Innocentiastraße 37 home and from 1941 in the Volksküche in Schäferkampsallee 27. The "Jewish Cultural Association” offered lectures and entertainment in the community center in Hartungstraße for the Jewish people, who were now excluded from all other cultural events. Sara Delmonte probably took advantage of the food distribution and entertainment opportunities.

In July 1942, Sara Delmonte and her brother-in-law Moses/Martin Delmonte received their deportation order for the first large-scale deportation from Hamburg to Theresienstadt, a so-called transport for the elderly. Presumably, 82-year-old Sara Delmonte and the severely visually impaired 74-year-old Moses/Martin Delmonte made their way together on foot to the assembly point on Schanzenstraße, 20 minutes away. The school building, built in 1884, was hidden behind residential buildings and could not be seen from the street. Due to this secluded location, the schoolyard was declared a collection point for Jewish people by the Secret State Police in July 1942.

The train to Theresienstadt departed from Hanover station on July 15 in the morning with 925 people. It reached Theresienstadt on July 16, 1942.

Sara Delmonte and her brother-in-law Moses/Martin were deported on to Treblinka a good two months later and were probably murdered there on the day of their arrival in Treblinka.

Moses/Martin and his wife Amalie Delmonte are commemorated by stumbling stones in Bundesstraße 35 (see www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de)

About the fate of Sara Delmonte's siblings:

Hana/Johanna Delmonte had married Ferdinand Holstein, born on September 17, 1845. They had children Betty, born on June 17, 1884, Selma Zimcha, born on October 29, 1885, Leo Martin, born on December 6, 1886 and Ellen Holstein, born on January 11, 1894. Rachel Käthi/Käthe had married Berthold Goldschmidt. She survived and died on March 19, 1973 in Tel Aviv.

Angelina Harriet Delmonte married Carlos Höchstetter. She survived and died on February 22, 1970 in Argentina.

Ester Delmonte had married Joseph Algava, born on December 31, 1850. They had children Simcha Sophia, born on December 5, 1884, Rika, born on July 25, 1886 and Hanna Anita Algava, born on April 23, 1888. Ester and Joseph Algava were buried in the Ilandkoppel Jewish Cemetery.

Simcha Sophia Algava married Aron Heilbut, born on November 21, 1877, and the couple was deported to the Lodz ghetto and murdered.

Rika Algava emigrated to America.

Hanna Anita Algava married the Catholic Otto John August Beller, born on March 29, 1886. They had two children Werner Otto John Beller, born on August 31, 1911 and Konrad Kurt Eberhard Beller, born on October 14, 1912. The marriage ended in divorce in 1925. Hanna Anita Beller fled to Buenos Aires with her sons and died there on January 3, 1939.

Translation: Beate Meyer
Stand: December 2024
© Bärbel Klein

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 7; 8; 9; StaH, 351-14 Sozialfürsorge – Arbeits- und Sozialwesen Nr. 1088 (Moses gen. Martin Delmonte); 351-11 AfW 14610 (Hannah Erna Delmonte); 332-5 Geburtsregister 2056 Nr. 3352/1883 Amalie Delmonte, 2085 Nr. 5743/1884 Simcha Sophia Algava, 2134 Nr. 5906/1886 Leo Martin Holstein, 1257 Nr. 1202/1889 Betty Olga Delmonte, 9068 Nr. 588/1891 Hannah Elli Delmonte, 9079 Nr. 717/1892 Hannah Erna Delmonte, 9104 Nr. 1726/1894 Rachel Delmonte, 9126 Nr. 1393/1896 Angelina Harriet Delmonte; 332-5 Heiratsregister 5901 Nr. 1042/1887 Jakob Delmonte/Sara Delmonte, 8543 Nr. 264/1889 Delmonte/Garcia de los Reyes, 225 Nr. 1527/1887 Juda gen. Julius Delmonte, 2176 Nr. 488/1919 Otto John August Beller/Hanna Anita Algava, 8678 Nr. 297/1911 Julius Cohn/Gertrud Simcha Delmonte, 8689 Nr. 102/1913 Simcha Sophia Algava/Aron Heilbut, 8740 Nr. 142/1920 Moses gen. Martin Delmonte/Amalie Zechlinski; 332-5 Sterberegister 7859 Nr. 384/1891 Hannah Elli Delmonte, 5221 Nr. 1433/1893 Betti Delmonte, 8000 Nr. 535/1909 Moses Hajim Delmonte, 8005 Nr. 879/1910 Simcha Delmonte, 8006 Nr. 263/1911 Joseph Algava, 8073 Nr. 244/1923 Jakob Delmonte, 1104 Nr. 524/1939 Johanna Delmonte, 1121 Nr. 610/1940 Amalie Delmonte, 8168 Nr. 40/1941 Hana Holstein; 741-4 Fotoarchiv K4358, K , K2440, K 7276; ITS Archives Bad Arolsen Digital Archive Copy of 1.2.4.1 / 7105 Archivnummer [12651515]; Irmgard Stein, Jüdische Baudenkmäler in Hamburg, erschienen 1984, Seite 115 Samuel-Levy-Stiftung; Stefanie Fischer, Familie und Alltag, in: Hamburger Schlüsseldokumente zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte, 22.09.2016; www.wikipedea.de; www.geni.com; www.ancestry.de; www.holocaust.cz/de/opferdatenbank/ (Einsicht 26.4.2020).
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