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Fanny Klein (Kleinberger) * 1882

Bogenstraße 5 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)

1941 Riga

further stumbling stones in Bogenstraße 5:
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Hans Weinberg, born 16 Sep. 1918 in Dortmund, deported to Minsk on 8 Nov. 1941
Jette Weinberg, née Kleinberger, born 21 Dec. 1880 in Hannover, deported to Auschwitz on 11 July 1942
Johanna Luise (Anneliese) Weinberg, born 29 Mar 1915 in Dortmund, deported to Auschwitz on 11 July 1942
Ernst (David) Kleinberger, born 24 Dec. 1893 in Stolzenau, imprisoned in Hamburg in November 1942 and in February 1943, transferred to Berlin, deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on March 2nd, 1943, from there on to Gross-Rosen, on February 26th, 1945 to Buchenwald, presumably murdered there.
Mansteinstrasse 49

Fanny Kleinberger, born 6 Feb. 1882 in Hannover, deported to Riga 6 Dec. 1941

Bogenstrasse 5

Jette Weinberg was born in Hannover in 1880, i.e. during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm I. She was the daughter of the Jewish "product merchant” Josef Kleinberger and his wife Anna, née Mendler. Her half-sister was born two years later in the same apartment in Hannover, Schlossstrasse 4. Fanny’s mother was Lina Kleinberger, née Mendler. Possibly Jette’s mother Anna had died in childbirth or shortly after, so that her father married his sister-in-law. It is difficult to ascertain the family relations after such a long time; however, besides the sisters Fanny (born 1882) and Berta (born 1890 in Hagenburg), there were the brothers David (born 1893 in Stolzenau) and Adolf (born 1896 in Stolzenau).

Their father Josef Kleinberger had probably come to Germany from Niepolomice in Galicia. The memoirs of Margot Kleinberger, who was born 1931 in Hannover and survived Theresienstadt, were published in 2009. Presumably Margot Kleinberger’s great-grandfather David Kleinberger, a watchmaker, who had moved from Niepolomice near Krakow to Hannover, was a brother or cousin of Jette Weinberg’s father. It is conspicuous that children in both branches of the family were given the same first names. In the 19th century, many Kleinbergers from Niepolomice in Galicia emigrated to Germany, some to Hannover and further on to the region near the Steinhuder Meer in the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, that stretched from there down to Hamelin. Jette’s father moved to Stolzenau on the Weser River at the end of the 19th century.

In 1880, the hamlet of Stolzenau belonged to the Prussian Province of Hannover and to the Country Rabbinate of Hannover. In 1885, Stolzenau had 1,483 inhabitants, among them 104 Jews. Jews had probably been living in Stolzenau since the late 17th century, and the Jewish cemetery had possibly also been acquired in the late 17th century. The 19th century was the period of prosperity of Stolzenau’s Jewish community. A Jewish school was founded at the beginning of the century; it seems to have existed until the 1920s. In 1892, 28 children attended the Jewish elementary school. At the beginning of the 20th century, many Jews migrated away. Before the beginning of the deportations, merely 13 Jewish people remained, who all perished at the extermination camps in the east.

Jette and Fanny are not mentioned in the old Stolzenau records, only Berta, David and Adolf. This is probably due to the fact that they had already left when a register of persons of the Synagogue Community was created in 1904/1905. In this register, the Kleinbergers are the only family listed outside of the numeration, which means that these people were not drawn upon for the synagogue tax on account of their narrow circumstances. Father Josef Kleinberger died 1904 in Stolzenau, mother Lina in 1920.

Jette Kleinberger married Albert Weinberg (born 1867 in Witten) on April 11th, 1914 in Dortmund. The family name Weinberg was also represented in Stolzenau; Albert Weinberg may have been related to the Stolzenau Weinbergs. Jette’s siblings Adolf and Berta also moved from Stolzenau to Dortmund, Adolf early in 1913, Berta in late 1920. Jette’s husband Albert Weinberg was an installer by trade. For those days, the couple was of a rather advanced age when they married. Son Hans and daughter Johanna Luise were born in Dortmund. The couple’s first mutual home was at 80, I. Kampstrasse, where Jett had probably already lived before they married. In March of 1916, shortly before the birth of their first child, they move to Schwanenstrase 56, where they remained until mother and children moved to Hamburg. Albert Weinberg died at the age of 70 in November 1937 in the Dortmund Johannes Hospital.

Daughter Johanna Luise – her name was shortened to Anneliese, and both variations occur in the records, which causes confusion, had already left her parents’ home and gone to Hamburg in April, 1937. Brother Hans and their mother followed after the father had died, deregistering with the destination Hamburg on March 28th, 1938. At the time of the 1939 census, Jette Weinberg lived with her children Hans and Anneliese on the third floor of Mansteinstrasse 49 (then Max-von-Boehn-Strasse). In the Nazi terminology, all three were considered "full Jews”, the mother having four Jewish grandparents, the children only three because their father was a "Mischling of the first degree” or "half-Jew.”

On April 18th, 1942, Jette and her daughter (here again under the name Johanna) were taken into "protective custody” at the Fuhlsbüttel Police Jail, committed by the Gestapo Department II B2, i.e. the "Jew department.” Both were released on May 4th, 1942.
Hans Weinberg had been deported to Minsk in November, 194, from his address at Mansteinstrasse 49. Jette and Anneliese Weinberg only remained free for two months; on July 11th, 1942, they were deported to Auschwitz from the "Jews’ house at Grossneumarkt 56.

A possible reason for Jette Weinberg’s move from Dortmund to Hamburg was the fact that both of her sisters lived in Hamburg. Berta Kleinberger (born 1880 in Hagenburg near the Steinhuder Meer) had moved from Stolzenau to Dortmund in November, 1920, later returned to Stolzenau before coming to Hamburg in August, 1924. Here, she married Josef Leider (born 1855 in Lopatyn, Galicia), a Polish citizen, so that Berta acquired Polish citizenship by marriage war; it was Leider’s second marriage. He died in 1938. Josef Leider worked as funeral officer for the German-Israelitic Community. When he and Berta married, Josef Leider lived at Turnstrasse 6 in Altona (from 1939 on: Schmarjestrasse) und Bertha at Isestrasse 119. Berta joined Josef in Altona. Their daughter Lina was born in 1930.
Jette’s unmarried sister Fanny registered with the German-Israelitic Community in Hamburg in December, 1930. She was a cook, but also obtained an invalid’s pension. We do not know whether she lived as a subtenant or in the household of the people she worked for, e.g. at Isestrasse 119 I (with Levy) Isestrasse 119 had also been Berta’s address when she married. Many Berta had been working there, and Fanny took over her job with the Levy family. Fanny later moved to Schlankreye 55 III (with Kohlmann) and then to Bogenstrasse 5 (with Flatau) (see Elisabeth Flatau). On December 6th, 1941, she was deported from Bogenstrasse 5 to Riga. In the deportation list, her name is wrongly given as Fanny Klein – a mistake that also entered into the Memorial Books. In the Jewish Community’s copy of the list, the mistake is corrected in pencil. Her sister Berta Leider with her 11-year-old daughter Lina had to leave Hamburg with the same deportation transport.

In Yad Vashem, there is a memorial page with the reference to their brother David Kleinberger (born 1893 in Stolzenau), who called himself Ernst from the 1920s on. He had entered military service in 1913, taken part in World War I and until 1920 belonged to a free corps in Weissenburg (Wissembourg) in Alsace. In November, 1921, he married Elsa Marietta Freund, a non-Jew of Lutheran faith, born 1898 in Hamborn. The couple lived in Duisburg-Hamborn in Gartenstrasse 51. In August, 1923, their only son Friedrich Kleinberger was born and baptized. Ernst Kleinberger had also had himself baptized and converted to the Lutheran faith in 1921, before marrying. Presumably, this was the occasion for dropping his Jewish name David. In 1940, Ernst Kleinberger went to Hamburg without his family to join his sister Jette. Perhaps he had got a job in Hamburg, not having found work in Duisburg. He worked as a warehouseman for August Hohmann & Söhne in Eppendorfer Landstrasse 61, a seeds store. After he had been sentenced, the company had pleaded for him, because they wanted to keep him as a worker and did not consider his alleged offense as serious, especially as Ernst Kleinberger had never done wrong.

In 1940, Ernst Kleinberger had first lived with his sister in Mansteinstrasse. In the first half of 1942, he to the house at the address Beim Schlump 9 I with Klickermann, propably as a subtenant. In October, 1942, his address was Rendsburger Strasse 14 I (with Wiehl), where he also returned after being released from jail in November 1942. In 1943, he was deported from Hamburg. He is not listed in the Memorial Books, but there actually is a trace of him in Hamburg: in October, 1942, he was sentenced to six weeks in jail for an offense against the ID card and name decree. He spent not quite a month in the jail in Hamburg-Harburg and at the beginning of November was transferred to Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel prison, where he was released on November 23rd. From February 2nd to 25th, 1943, Ernst Kleinberger was in Fuhlsbüttel, either in the concentration camp or the police prison, which is documented by the preserved "protection cost” account. There, "KZ Auschwitz” was given as his disposition, as jails, prisons and concentration camps were to be rendered "free of Jews” according to the decree of October/November 1942.
Nothing is known of the fate of his brother Adolf Kleinberger.

The Stumbling Stones for Jette and Hans Weinberg were sponsored by the residents of Mansteinstrasse 15, who studied the history of Sally Hockenheimer, who has a stone in front of their house, and then decided to jointly sponsor a stone in their neighborhood.

Translated by Peter Hubschmid

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2016
© Susanne Lohmeyer

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