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Johanna Nehemias (née Rothgiesser) * 1867

Dorotheenstraße 59 (Hamburg-Nord, Winterhude)

1942 Theresienstadt
ermordet 05.04.1943

further stumbling stones in Dorotheenstraße 59:
Julius Nehemias

Johanna Nehemias, née Rothgiesser, b. 9.12.1867 in Hamburg, deported on 15.7.1942 to Theresienstadt, where she died on 15.4.1943
Julius Nehemias, b. 1.24.1895 in Hamburg, murdered on 9.23.1940 in Brandenburg

Julius was the son of Johanna Nehemias and her husband Bernard (b. 12.10.1855 in Hamburg, whose parents were Siegmund and Sara, née Biesenthal). Bernard probably died in 1940. The couple had two other children: Martha (b. 3.2.1889) and Jenny (b. 27.1.1895). The family was Jewish. Martha withdrew from the Jewish community of Hamburg with the notation "married out; in 1924 her sister was classified as "deformed." The communal religious tax files for Bernhard Nehemias listed addresses, at Schinkelstrasse 3, Preystrasse 4, and Dorotheenstrasse 59, among others. The last named seems to have been the family residence from the beginning of the 1920s until 1938. Julius also lived there, with his parents. He must have been mentally or psychologically ill because in February 1938 he was sent to the Langenhorn psychiatric hospital. He was doubly stigmatized as "Jewish and mentally ill" and fell victim to the T4 Euthanasia Program: on the first transport of this nature, he along with 136 fellow-sufferers, was taken to the Brandenburg Euthanasia Center and suffocated there by carbon monoxide.

Johanna Nehemias moved around 1940 to Schauenburgerstrasse 11 and then, certainly involuntarily, in April 1942 to the Jewish old people’s home at Frickestrasse 24. On 15 July 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt. Her companions on this journey were, among others, Johanna Stern and Emil Mirabeau. She died on 5 April 1943 in Theresienstadt.


Translator: Richard Levy

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: November 2017
© Ulrike Sparr

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 8; Klaus Böhme, Uwe Lohalm (Hrsg.), Wege in den Tod, Hamburg 1993.
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