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Ernst Ephraim Streim * 1893

Grindelallee 184 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
ERNST EPHRAIM
STREIM
JG. 1893
DEPORTIERT 1941
RIGA
ERMORDET

further stumbling stones in Grindelallee 184:
Jettchen Heilbut, Erna Streim, Mirjam Streim, Walter Streim

Ernst Ebrahim Streim, born on 4 July 1893 in Hamburg, deported on 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga, killed there
Erna Streim, née Ullmann, born on 1 Sept. 1901 in Würzburg, deported on 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga, killed there
Mirjam Streim, born on 24 June 1927 in Hamburg, deported on 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga, killed there
Walter Streim, born on 23 Dec. 1928 in Hamburg, deported on 6 Dec. 1941 to Riga, killed there

Grindelallee 184

Ernst Streim was the son of Salomon Streim and Johanna, née Sachs. He had a brother Siegfried (born on 13 Apr. 1876 in Hamburg) who was almost two years his junior and married to Johanna, née Hausmann. Starting in 1925, Ernst Streim worked as a teacher at the Israelite girls’ school at Karolinenstrasse 35; his main subject was mathematics. In about 1926, he married the office clerk Erna Ullmann from Würzburg. Her parents were the Würzburg print shop owner Juda (Jehuda) Ullmann (born on 15 May 1865) and Lina, née Hausmann, from Dornheim/Main-Franconia (born on 18 Mar. 1874). Erna moved to her husband in Hamburg, and they had two children: Mirjam, born on 24 June 1927; and Walter Salo, born on 23 Dec. 1928. Ernst’s brother Siegfried, who had become a dentist, and his sister-in-law Johanna also became parents. Their children were named Kurt Salo (born on 12 Apr. 1927), Werner (born on 15 Nov. 1930), and Sulamit (born on 18 May 1932).

Ernst and Erna Streim resided with Mirjam and Walter at Grindelallee 184 and lived in modest circumstances from the teacher’s salary of their father. In the beginning, Siegfried and Johanna Streim also lived in the same house; then they moved to Bramfelder Strasse 5. In 1926/27, Ernst Streim attended a further education course at the University of Hamburg, which enabled him to teach the class for talented students; the costs for his training were covered by the school. Erna Streim’s father, Juda Ullmann, died on 2 May 1934. Erna’s mother Lina continued to run the print shop on her own for some time, but retired for age reasons. From Aug. 1938 onward, she lived in the Würzburg Jewish retirement home at Dürerstrasse 20 and Konradstrasse 3, respectively.

In Hamburg, the girls’ school had to move from Karolinenstrasse to the Talmud Tora School at Grindelhof 30 in Apr. 1939, but only a few months later, in Oct. 1939, all students were ordered back to Karolinenstrasse, as the Talmud Tora School building was used by the teacher training college (Hochschule für Lehrerbildung). From the end of 1939, Ernst Streim also taught boys and served as a class teacher in the G8 final class, which graduated from school in 1940. These included the students Walter Golenzer, Martin Beer, Peter Glück, and Günther Nachum, who are also commemorated by Stolpersteine in Hamburg (see their biographies on www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de), as well as Schlomo Schwarzschild and Karl-Heinz Silberberg, who succeeded in emigrating. Starting in about 1940, Ernst Streim’s colleague, the teacher Jettchen Heilbut (see corresponding entry) lived with the Streim family as a subtenant.

When the deportations began in 1941, the Jewish school system in Hamburg was shattered. In May 1942, the authorities cleared the school on Karolinenstrasse before all Jewish schools were closed on 30 June 1942. The Hamburg teachers who were deported perished in the concentration camps. Only a few of the students survived.

Ernst Streim and his relatives, like Jettchen Heilbut, were deported to Riga-Jungfernhof on 6 Dec. 1941.

The living conditions in the subcamp were disastrous. The quarters consisted of livestock stables and barns, and the temperature was far below freezing. Prisoners froze to death there every day. Besides the cold and the poor hygienic conditions, hunger, hard work, and corporal punishment were the biggest problems. Ernst Streim and his family were also among the victims.

Erna Streim’s mother Lina was deported from Würzburg via Nuremberg to Theresienstadt on 23 Sept. 1942 and she died there on 2 Apr. 1943.

Ernst Streim’s brother Siegfried, his wife Johanna, 15-year-old Kurt Salo, nearly 12-year-old Walter, and ten-year-old Sulamith were transported from Hamburg to Theresienstadt on 19 July 1942. In the very end, they had to live in the "Jews’ house” ("Judenhaus”) at Dillstrasse 15. Kurt Streim was employed in Theresienstadt as an apprentice in the "Ghettozentralbücherei,” the "central ghetto library;”on 28 Sept. 1944, he was taken from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz alone, without his parents, and four weeks later, on 27 Oct. 1944, he was transferred to the Kaufering III subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp. He was murdered there on 22 Jan. 1945 at the age of 17. His father Siegfried Streim took part in the educational program in the ghetto. On Thursday, 15 June 1944 at 6.30 p.m., he gave a lecture on "Jewish personalities in the nineteenth century” at Hauptstrasse 2/144. Four months later, on 28 Oct. 1944, Siegfried, his wife Johanna, their son Werner, and their daughter Sulamit were deported from Theresienstadt to the Auschwitz extermination camp and murdered. For the family, Stolperstein are located at Dillstrasse 15 in the Grindel quarter.

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

© Stephanie Fleischer

Quellen: 1; 3; 4; 5; StaH 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden 992 e 2 Band 5, Transport nach Theresienstadt am 19. Juli 1942, Liste 1; ebd., Band 3, Transport nach Riga am 6. Dezember 1941, Liste 1; StaH 314-15, Nr. R 1940/977; StaH 741-4 Sa 1088 PK; Hochmuth/de Lorent (Hrsg.): Hamburg, S. 317; Lehberger/Pritzlaff/Randt: Entrechtet; Meyer (Hrsg.): Verfolgung; Müller: Jüdische Schüler, S. 282–290; Strätz: Biographisches Handbuch, S. 638; www.holocaust.cz/de/datenbank-der-digitalisierten-dokumenten/dokument/153056-programm-der-vortr-ge-in-theresienstadt-vom-12-6-1944-18-6-1944 (letzter Aufruf: 15.9.2016); www.holocaust.cz/de/opferdatenbank/opfer/34661-siegfried-streim (letzter Aufruf: 15.9.2016); www.holocaust.cz/de/opferdatenbank/opfer/34659-johanna-streim (letzter Aufruf: 15.9.2016); www.holocaust.cz/de/opferdatenbank/opfer/34660-kurt-streim (letzter Aufruf: 15.9.2016).
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