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Rosa Rosenberg * 1896

Hallerstraße 72 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
ROSA ROSENBERG
JG. 1896
DEPORTIERT 1941
ERMORDET IN
LODZ

further stumbling stones in Hallerstraße 72:
Henriette Sax, Gottfried Sax

Rosa Rosenberg, born 13 July 1896 in Groddeck, deported 25 Oct. 1941 from Hamburg to Lodz, murdered there
Hallerstraße 72

Rosa Rosenberg and her four siblings grew up in Groddeck, a village in the West Prussian district of Schwetz, where their father Itzig Rosenberg (born 18 Mar. 1854 in Groddeck) was a merchant. Rosa Rosenberg's mother, Emma Ernestine Marie Hirschfeld, born 15 July 1866 in Kasparus (West Prussia), had family in Hamburg: her brothers Isidor, Joseph and Benno Hirschfeld had founded the large clothing store Gebrüder Hirschfeld in 1892. Rosa Rosenberg's older brother Leo joined the firm in 1913. He was severely wounded in Russia in the First World War.

The Versailles Treaty ending WWI ceded the West Prussian area where the family’s hometown was located to Poland. Rosa Rosenberg, her parents, and her siblings Gertrud, Erna Nora, and Hugo left Groddeck. They went their separate ways, but eventually came together again in Hamburg during the Nazi era.

According to the records of the Hamburg German-Israelitic Community, Rosa Rosenberg’s parents had been members since 1935. At that time they were utterly destitute and supported financially by their children. From March 1936 onwards, they, their daughters Rosa, Gertrud, and Erna Nora and her children Rita and Helmut all lived in rented rooms on the 3rd floor of the building at Hallerstraße 72. Itzig Rosenberg died on 7 Nov. 1939 after suffering a stroke.

Leo Rosenberg (born 27 Aug. 1893 in Groddeck), Rosa’s eldest brother, had to watch as his business, the Gebrüder Hirschfeld clothing store, and with it his financial existence, was destroyed in the November Pogrom in 1938. He and his brother Hugo fled to Chile in late May 1939. Rosa’s sister Gertrud (born 25 Nov. 1903) and their mother later joined them.

Rosa remained in Hamburg. In the spring of 1939 she moved to Abendrothsweg 17, and a short time later to an apartment on the 3rd floor at Johnsallee 39. This was her last address in Hamburg. There is no indication that she ever worked in her profession of sales clerk. Her tax records with the Jewish Community show no independent income.

On 25 Oct. 1941, Rosa Rosenberg was deported to the Lodz Ghetto. She was registered there as "household help,” and murdered. In her last years in Hamburg she was destitute. The proceeds of the public auction of her household goods, 418.30 Reichsmarks, went to the Hamburg Chief Tax Authority.

Rosa’s sister Erna Nora Kloss (born 10 Oct. 1894 in Groddeck), her husband Arthur Kloss (born 3 Sep. 1884 in Berlin), and their children Rita (born 11 Nov. 1922) and Helmut (born 20 Nov. 1929) were also murdered. They were deported to Auschwitz on 11 July 1942.


Translator: Amy Lee
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.


Stand: September 2019
© Jürgen Sielemann

Quellen: StaH, 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 992 b, 992 d, Nr. 1193; StAH, 314-15 Oberfinanzpräsident, J 1 Bd. 2, 1/906, FVg 4739, FVG 4709 a; 332-5 Standesämter, 8164, Standesamt 2 a, 1939 Nr. 416; 332-7 Staatsangehörigkeitsaufsicht, B III 1929 Nr. 1100; 332-8 Meldewesen, Hausmeldekartei, Abendrothsweg 17 (Mikrofilm K 2349) und Johnsallee 39 (Mikrofilm K 2425); 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung, 15805 und 1059 Internetquellen: http://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=3643783; http: //db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=342505&language=de.