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Amalie Noafeldt * 1881

Johnsallee 68 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

1942 Theresienstadt
1944 weiterdeportiert nach Auschwitz

further stumbling stones in Johnsallee 68:
Ella Michel, Dr. Hans Rosenbaum, Henriette Voss

Amalie Noafeldt, b. 5.18.1881, deported on 7.19.1942 to Theresienstadt; sent on from there to Auschwitz on 10.9.1944

The universally respected, unmarried nurse functioned for years as the matron of the old people’s home of the Hamburg German-Israelite Congregation at Schäferkampsallee 29, where she ultimately bore responsibility for 30 residents. She also lived in the house, the economic direction of which she shared with an inspector. Medical care was undertaken by Prof. Siegfried Korach.

In November 1940, Amalie N. attempted to emigrate to the USA. Truthfully, she stated to the authorities that she possessed no more than 200 RM in cash. She received the required clearance certificate and was issued a passport. The appraiser valued her hand luggage at RM 400 and her travel luggage at 875 RM (for which he received a fee of RM 25.78). For the most part it was a matter of a few used things Amalie N. had purchased for 177 RM, the price of which she had to pay as a fee to the Golddiskontobank. The list of movable goods included the sister’s uniform, "supplied by the mother house of the nurses association," which she said she intended to use to work in her old profession, if possible.

Her planned itinerary reveals how difficult and protracted travel had become during the early years of the war: She intended to proceed across Russia and Japan to Balboa, a port city in the Panama Canal Zone. Because she could not afford the costs of travel, a Jewish aid organization paid $47 to the Hamburg-Amerika line office in New York which was intended to cover the costs of her meals and accommodations on the trip. Although all the necessary matters had been taken care of, the emigration collapsed because – according to the records – Japan rejected her visa. Thus, she remained in Hamburg and continued to care for the residents of the old people’s home at Schäferkampsallee 29; she lived in the Jewish hospital which was at Johnsallee 68. When the occupants (and Amalie N.) were deported to Theresienstadt, the hospital was moved into the premises at Schäferkampsallee. Amalie N. received the deportation order while she was still at Johnsallee 68. She was 61 years old.

In Theresienstadt she came down with tuberculosis. She lay in bed for a long time in the improvised lung hospital and could not leave her quarters during the fall and winter of 1943. She began her onward transport to Auschwitz from her sick bed, "delicate, refined, and composed, probably anticipating what she faced," as her co-prisoner Käthe Starke affirmed in her last impression of Amalie N.


Translator: Richard Levy

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: November 2017
© Beate Meyer

Quellen: StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, 992b, Kultussteuerkartei der Deutsch-Israelitischen Gemeinde Hamburgs; ebd., 314-15, Oberfinanzpräsident, FVg 8509; 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden 992e; Käthe Starke, Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt, Berlin 1975; Deutsch-Jüdische Gesellschaft (Hrsg.), Wegweiser zu den ehemaligen jüdischen Stätten, Heft 2, Hamburg 1985; Hamburger jüdische Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Gedenkbuch, Hamburg 1995.