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Ignatz Hahn * 1876
Billstraße 40 (Hamburg-Mitte, Rothenburgsort)
HIER WOHNTE
IGNATZ HAHN
JG. 1876
DEPORTIERT 1941
MINSK
ERMORDET
Ignatz Hahn, born 1 Jan. 1876 in Vinkovci, deported 18 Nov. 1941 to Minsk
Billstraße 40
Ignatz Hahn’s parents were Siegmund and Josephine (née Hahn) Hahn. His place of birth was probably Vinkovci in present-day Croatia. At that time it was a part of the Kingdom of Hungary. It is unclear when and how he came to Hamburg, but in 1924 he was listed as a tax-paying member of the German-Israelitic Community. His profession was listed as "beer puller,” but no employer was given. He lived in rented rooms at Valentinskamp 84. His income in the 1920s was very low. He changed addresses once before he moved to Billstraße 40, where he lived until 1940, except for the years from 1932 to 1936. When he returned to Hamburg he earned a small living as a merchant. His income was so low that he did not have to pay taxes for four years, but he apparently had some kind of savings or assets that were not yet taxable. That changed in 1940. Desperately in need of finances, the Jewish Religious Association levied a fee of 1 Reichsmark on all members. Ignatz Hahn moved for a short time to Hammerbrook, and from there to Eimsbüttel. He always sought out rented rooms, and never lived in a "Jews’ house,” which indicates a measure of financial independence.
Although the upper age limit for the supposed "rebuilding in the East” was 65, the Reich Security Main Office lowered this qualification for the transports to Minsk to 60. Ignatz Hahn was older, but it was of no use. He was forced to leave on the third transport in 1941, which took 402 people to the Minsk Ghetto in what is today Belarus. Once in Minsk all traces of him were lost. At 64 years old and with no family, he had no chance of survival.
Translator: Amy Lee
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: October 2016
© Hildegard Thevs
Quellen: 1; 4; StaH 552-1 Jüdische Gemeinden, 992 e 2 Bd.3.
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