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Rosa Victor (née Abrahamsohn) * 1882

Carsten-Rehder-Straße 50 (Altona, Altona-Altstadt)

HIER WOHNTE
ROSA VICTOR
GEB. ABRAHAMSOHN
JG. 1882
DEPORTIERT 1942
ERMORDET IN
AUSCHWITZ

further stumbling stones in Carsten-Rehder-Straße 50:
Louis Victor

Sally Victor, born 5/11/1889 in Hamburg, murdered at the mental hospital in Brandenburg on the Havel on 9/23/1940.
Rosa Victor, née Abrahamson, born 5/7/1882 in Prenzlau, deported to Auschwitz on July 11, 1942, murdered
Louis Ludwig Victor, born 7/14/1883 in Hamburg, deported to Auschwitz on July 11, 1942, murdered

Karsten-Rehder-Strasse 50 (formerly Grosse Fischerstrasse 52/56, to the left of Hafenstrasse)

Sally Victor was the youngest of the five children of Perez and Emilie Victor, née Freudenthal.

Perez Victor, born on February 4, 1853 in the village of Rhina in eastern Hesse, was the two years younger brother of Lippmann vulgo Louis Victor (cf. biography of Regine Victor), who had settled in Hamburg around 1872. Perez had followed his brother to Hamburg, where he married Emilie Freudenthal (born March 29, 1858 in Peine near Hannover) on September 4, 1882. The Jewish couple lived at Steinstrasse 142 in Hamburg’s old town, where their first child, Louis (called Ludwig) was born on July 14, 1883, Joseph Victor followed, born December 4, 1884 at Schweinemarkt 142, died January 3 1885; Sally, born May 11, 1889 at Schweinemarkt 28; Martha, and Erna, born April 1, 1894 in Wandsbek, Zollstrasse 104.

At the time of his marriage, Perez Victor gave his profession als product trader; in the 1883 Hamburg address book, his activity was more closely defined as "trading of furs and products”, like his brother’s. In 1890 or 1891, the family moved to Zollstrasse 104 in Wandsbek (then a town of its own), where they lived until around 1920.

Sally Victor is said to have suffered of "congenital imbecility.” In 1912, when he was first admitted to the Provincial Insane Asylum in Neustadt/Holstein, he had already left his parental home and was living with his brother and legal guardian Louis Ludwig Victor at Am Brunnenhof 33 in Hamburg’s St. Pauli district. The correspondence between Perez Victor and the hospital preceding Sally’s admission to the institution on February 25, 1912 reveals that Sally’s father considered his son’s hospitalization necessary and also assumed its costs.

Not quite six months later, on August 11, 1912, Sally "escaped” from the hospital in Neustadt. His "departure” seems to have been not unwelcome to the management of the Provincial Insane Asylum. On August 27, 1912, hospital director Dabelstein wrote to the district commissioner in Cismar asking if there were any objections to Sally Victor’s discharge. In his letter, Dabelstein mentioned that "the individual is said to have committed actions that led to a conflict with the police in Wandsbek in 1911, which, however, were not punished due to his imbecility.”

In the meantime, Sally victor had found work with the leaseholder of the Alt-Glasau farm in what is now the county of Bad Segeberg. He first worked in the market garden and behaved "reasonably quietly.” Soon, however, the employer wanted to get rid of Sally. He contacted Victor Perez and waited for him to pick up his son. This led to a correspondence between the head official of the community of Glasau and the county commissioner in Segeberg, where the head of the community expressed his concern that community might become liable for Sally Victor’s upkeep.

The plan of the employer, the community and the Neustadt hospital succeeded to the end that Sally Victor at the beginning of October 1912 again moved in with his parents at Zollstrasse 104 in Wandsbek – at least temporarily. On December 9, 1912, the welfare agency of the magistrate of the city of Wandsbek informed the Neustadt Provincial Insane Asylum that that Sally Victor was "supposed to be in Farmsen” – meaning the Hamburg workhouse.

It is not documented where Sally Victor spent the following years up to 1927. According to a letter of the president of the provincial administration in Kiel, Sally Victor returned from Berlin to Hamburg on November 5, 1925 and was subsequently admitted to the workhouse in Glückstadt on December 5, 1925. The building on Jungfernstieg in Glückstadt had served as a prison in the 19th century, later as a "corrective institution”, and from 1925 as "state work institution.” It is likely that Sally Victor remained there until November 3, 1927, when he was again admitted to the Provincial Insane Asylum in Neustadt, and lived there for almost thirteen years. According to a note on the cover of his patient record, he was discharged” – i.e. transferred to Hamburg-Langenhorn on September 13, 1940.

The transfer to Langenhorn was carried out in the scope of the special operation planned by the "Euthanasia” agency at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin ("T4”) in spring and summer of 1940 to eliminate all Jewish patients from public and private mental hospitals. All Jewish people living in the institutions were to be registered and then concentrated at so-called assembling institutions. In northern Germany, this was the Langenhorn mental hospital. All institutions in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg and Mecklenburg were ordered to transfer all their Jewish patients there by September 18, 1940.

Sally Victor arrived in Langenhorn on September 13, where he met his cousin Regine Victor (cf. There), the daughter of his uncle Lippmann vulgo Louis. Sally Victor, his cousin Regine and 134 more patients from institutions in northern Germany were transported to Brandenburg on the Havel on September 23, 1940, where the transport arrived the same day. The newly arrived patients were immediately herded into the gas chamber and murdered by carbon monoxide gas in the part of the former prison that had been converted into a gas murdering facility. Only Ilse Herta Zachmann temporarily escaped that fate (cf. there).

We do not know whether or when Sally Victor’s family was informed of his death. In all documented notifications it was claimed that the person concerned had died a natural death in Chelm, Poland (Cholm in German). The people murdered in Brandenburg, however, had never been in the town east of Lublin called Chelm in Polish, Cholm in German. The mental hospital there had ceased to exist after SS troops had murdered almost all its patients on January 12, 1940. And there had never been a German registrar’s office in Chelm. It was solely invented to cover up the murder operations, and recording fictive later dates of death served the purpose of demanding board fees for the already murdered patients.

Further members of Sally Victor’s family fell victim to the Holocaust. His brother Louis, called Ludwig, had married Rosa Abrahamson, born May 7, 1882 in Prenzlau. The wedding probably took place outside of Hamburg, so that we do not know its date or place – it might have been at Rosa’s family’s place of residence. Louis was admitted to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on December 21, 1938, but later released. At the time of the census of May 1939, Louis and Rosa Victor lived at Fischerstrasse 52/56 in Hamburg-Altona. They were to be deported to Minsk on November 8, 1941, as they were on the Gestapo deportation list for that date with the address "Alt.[ona], Gr. Fischerstr. 52 I”. Their names, however, were crossed out, a fact that only gave them a short respite. The Victors had to move once again, to the confinement of the "Jews’ house” at Sonninstrasse 16 (now Biernatzkistrasse) in Altona. It was there that they received the deportation order that sent them to Auschwitz on July 11, 1942, where they were murdered on arrival.

Erna Victor married a man with the surname David. She was able to leave Germany in time and in the 1950s filed compensation claims concerning Louis and Rosa Victor.

Martha Victor probably married outside of Hamburg. Her fate and that of her husband whose surname was Nowottny are unknown.

No death entries exist for Perez and Emilie Victor at the registrar’s offices in Hamburg, Altona or Wandsbek. It is therefore likely that they left Hamburg and possibly returned to one or the other’s place of birth.

Translation by Peter Hubschmid
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: March 2020
© Ingo Wille

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 9; StaH 133-1 III Staatsarchiv III, 3171-2/4 U.A. 4, Liste psychisch kranker jüdischer Lebenden jüdischen Frauen und Männern der psychiatrischen Anstalt Langenhorn, die aufgrund nationalsozialistischer "Euthanasie"-Maßnahmen ermordet wurden, zusammengestellt von Peter von Rönn, Hamburg (Projektgruppe zur Erforschung des Schicksals psychisch Kranker in Langenhorn); 213-13 Landgericht Hamburg – Wiedergutmachung 9124 Louis (Ludwig) Victor; 232-5 Amtsgericht Hamburg – Vormundschaftswesen 2083 Margot Victor, 2084 Sally Victor; 332-5 Standesämter 169 Sterberegister Nr. 39/1885 Joseph Victor, 2636 Heiratsregister Nr. 949/1882 Perez Victor/Emilie Freudenthal, 2073 Geburtsregister Nr. 4681/1884 Joseph Victor, 2045 Geburtsregister Nr. 3030/1883 Louis Victor, 2073 Geburtsregister Nr. 4681/1884 Joseph Victor, 2146 Geburtsregister Nr. 4181/1887 Martha Victor, 3848 Geburtsregister Nr. 229/1894 Erna Victor; 2189 Geburtsregister Nr. 1450/1889 Sally Victor, 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung 40276 Magot Chow; 352-8/7 Staatskrankenanstalt Langenhorn Abl. 1/1995 Aufnahme-/Abgangsbuch Langenhorn 26. 8. 1939 bis 27. 1. 1941; 424-111 Amtsgericht Altona 6102 Erna David wegen Louis und Rosa Victor, 6107 Todeserklärung Louis und Rosa Victor; 6174 Todeserklärung Sally Victor; 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden Nr. 992 e 2 Band 2 und 4; Landesarchiv Schleswig (LAS) Abt. 377 Nr. 2771 (Patientenakte Sally Victor); JSHD Forschungsgruppe "Juden in Schleswig-Holstein", Datenpool Erich Koch, Schleswig.
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