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Ida Hagenow, 1941
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Ida Hagenow * 1880

Isestraße 64 (Eimsbüttel, Harvestehude)

HIER WOHNTE
IDA HAGENOW
JG. 1880
DEPORTIERT 1942
1944
ERMORDET IN
THERESIENSTADT

Ida Hagenow, born on 6 May 1880 in Hamburg, deported on 19 July 1942 to Theresienstadt, perished there on 15 May 1944

Isestrasse 64

Ida Hagenow was the youngest child of the merchant Isaac Salomon (1842–1912) and his wife Betty, née Posselburg (1842–1909). She had a sister five years older: Cäcilie, later married name Posselburg, and a brother three years older: Arnold. We know nothing about her childhood and youth.

According to later statements by Arnold’s daughter Alice, who was able to flee to Britain on a children transport (Kindertransport), Ida Hagenow worked for the Jewish Community, first the one in Altona, later that in Hamburg. In her function as an employee of the Jewish Religious Organization reg. soc. (Jüdischer Religionsverband e.V.), as the Jewish Community had to call itself by then, she was to accompany a children transport to London in the summer of 1939. Whether she was actually able to make the trip after completing all the bureaucratic formalities, or whether the beginning of the Second World War prevented it, is not clear from the file of the Chief Finance Administrator (Oberfinanzpräsident).

At that time, Ida Hagenow was residing on the ground floor of Isestrasse 63 with her widowed sister Cäcilie Posselburg. She was mainly responsible for the costs of the joint household. Her salary, which she received from the Jewish Religious Organization, amounted to 300 RM (reichsmark) per month, while her sister could only dispose of a monthly allowance amounting to 125 RM. A passage in the file states, "I live in domestic community with my above-mentioned sister, who, in view of the insignificance of her assets, can withdraw only small monthly amounts from them.”

After the death of her sister, who died on 14 June 1941, Ida Hagenow had to move into a building of the Jewish Religious Organization, which the National Socialists converted into a "Jews’ house” ("Judenhaus”). There, at Heimhuder Strasse 70, she received the deportation order to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in July 1942.

She died there on 15 May 1944, a few days after her sixty-fourth birthday.

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

Stand: August 2021
© Sabine Brunotte

Quellen: 1; 5; StaH 332-5_6887; StaH 332-5_1898; StaH 332-5_1966; StaH 332-5_8173; StaH 314-15_FVg 5944; StaH 314-15_R1940_0436; https://agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de, Hamburger Adressbuch von 1939, Zugriff 8.2.2021; Beate Meyer (Hrsg.), Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der Hamburger Juden 1933-1945, Hamburg 2006, S. 51; https://arolsen-archives.org/, zu Ida Hagenow, Zugriff 8.2.2021; http://www.statistik-des-holocaust.de/, Deportationsliste V12-12; Zugriff 8.2.2021; AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Interview (RV 125), Interview von Rosalyn Livshin mit Alice Rubinstein, geb. Hagenow, am 2. Oktober 2003.
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