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Sulamith Streim * 1932

Dillstraße 15 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

1942 Theresienstadt
1944 weiterdeportiert nach Auschwitz

further stumbling stones in Dillstraße 15:
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Dr. Siegfried Streim, born on 13 Apr. 1896 in Hamburg, deported to Theresienstadt on 19 July 1942, further deported to Auschwitz on 28 Oct. 1944, murdered there
Johanna Streim, née Hausmann, born on 10 July 1897 in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, deported to Theresienstadt on 19 July 1942, further deported to Auschwitz on 28 Oct. 1944, murdered there
Kurt Salo Streim, born on 12 Apr. 1927 in Hamburg, deported to Theresienstadt on 19 July 1942, further deported to Auschwitz on 28 Oct. 1944, detained in the Dachau concentration camp on 27 Oct. 1944, died there on 22 Jan. 1945
Werner Streim, born on 15 Nov. 1930 in Hamburg, deported to Theresienstadt on 19 July 1942, further deported to Auschwitz on 28 Oct. 1944, murdered there
Sulamith (Sulamed/Sulamit) Streim, born on 18 May 1932 in Hamburg, deported to Theresienstadt on 19 July 1942, further deported to Auschwitz on 28 Oct. 1944, murdered there

Dillstrasse 15

Siegfried Streim was the younger child of Salomon and Johanna Streim, née Sachs. He had an older brother, Ernst. Siegfried’s grandfather Ephraim Streim had moved from Borck to Hamburg in 1860. There he worked as a master tailor residing at Peterstrasse 71. In 1867/68, he moved to Elbstrasse 19. He died on 26 Mar. 1878. His wife Rieke Streim, née Cohn, followed him on 5 July 1883.

Siegfried’s father Salomon also worked in Hamburg as a master tailor. Salomon Streim passed away at the age of 57 on 15 Apr. 1913. His wife Johanna Streim, née Sachs, born on 15 May 1858, died on 26 Dec. 1935. In the very end, she lived at Grindelallee 184.

Siegfried Streim was born in Hamburg on 13 Apr. 1896. Nothing is known about his childhood and school days. He studied dentistry with the financial support of his brother Ernst and opened his own practice at Bramfelderstrasse 5 in 1925 – after a period as an assistant doctor. The money for this undertaking came from the dowry of his wife, Johanna, née Hausmann, whom he had married on 12 June 1925.

She was the daughter of the merchant Siegfried Hausmann, born on 19 Mar. 1871 in Geismar, and his wife Frieda, née Jacobsohn, born on 23 Oct. 1869 in Sudheim. She came from Wilhelmsburg and had two siblings: Helmuth and Edith (who both survived the Holocaust). Johanna Streim worked as a dental assistant in her husband’s practice until the birth of their first child in 1927. She resumed her work there in 1933.

After the couple had first lived at Grindelallee 184 (in the same house as Johanna Streim), they briefly relocated to Parkallee in 1926 and finally, one year later, to Beim Schlump 2a. Perhaps they moved to a larger apartment because the first son of the family, Kurt, was born in the same year. The family changed residences three more times until their deportation in 1942, which might be connected to the growing size of the family initially, because in 1930, the second son Werner was born and in 1932, daughter Sulamith.

Around 1933, Johanna’s mother, Frieda Hausmann, moved in with the Streim family. Frieda Hausmann took care of the children and the household, while her daughter worked in her husband’s practice. Johanna Streim was also active in the Jewish Community. Frieda Hausmann’s husband was detained in the Bremen-Oslebshausen prison starting in 1939.

In 1942, the entire family was forced to move to Dillstrasse 15, a so-called "Jews’ house” ("Judenhaus”). From there, they were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto together with Frieda and Siegfried Hausmann on 19 July 1942. According to survivors, Siegfried Streim attained a good reputation in Theresienstadt, both in professional life and in Jewish affairs in the ghetto. He worked in the health sector and in his free time, he gave lectures, for example, on attempts to solve the Jewish question.

Kurt Streim worked as an "apprentice” in the central library of the ghetto. He was deported first to the Auschwitz extermination camp on 28 Sept. 1944, where he was selected for forced labor, and then transferred to the Kaufering III camp, a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp, on 27 Oct. 1944. In Kaufering III, German aircraft production was to continue underground. There, the young man, almost 18 years old, died of exhaustion on 22 Jan. 1945.

His grandmother Frieda Hausmann had already been deported to Auschwitz before him on 15 May 1944, where she was murdered.

Her husband Siegfried Hausmann died in Theresienstadt. An exact date of death is not known.

Siegfried, his wife Johanna, and the two remaining children, Werner and Sulamith Streim, were deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on 28 Oct. 1944. In all probability, they were murdered immediately after their arrival.

Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: September 2020
© René Eder

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 7; 8; StaH 332-5, Heiratsurkunde Siegfried und Johanna Streim 1925, 47039; StaH 351-11, AfW, 18352 Streim, Siegfried, Dr.; Geburtsurkunde Johanna Streim via ancestry.de; Hamburger Adressbücher 1870-1943; J. Roth/E. Maxwell u.a. (Hg.), Remembering for the Future: 3 Volume Set: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, Bd. 1-3, London, S. 267.
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