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Alice Moses * 1926

Grindelallee 129 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
ALICE MOSES
JG. 1926
FLUCHT 1937 HOLLAND
INTERNIERT WESTERBORK
DEPORTIERT 1942
AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET 7.9.1942

further stumbling stones in Grindelallee 129:
Salo Moses, Mat(h)ilde Moses, Edith Moses

Salo Moses, born on 30 June 1901 in Hamburg, in 1937 flight to the Netherlands, deported on 3 Sept. 1942 via Westerbork to Auschwitz, declared dead as of 31 Mar. 1944
Mathilde Moses, née Cohen, born on 24 Oct. 1903 in Hamburg, in 1937 flight to the Netherlands, in 1942 deported via Westerbork to Auschwitz, murdered there on 7 Sept. 1942
Alice Moses, born on 12 Mar. 1926 in Hamburg, in 1937 flight to the Netherlands, in 1942 deported via Westerbork to Auschwitz, murdered there on 7 Sept. 1942
Edith Moses, born on 6 Sept. 1932 in Hamburg, in 1937 flight to the Netherlands, in 1942 deported via Westerbork to Auschwitz, murdered there on 7 Sept. 1942

Grindelallee 129

Salo Moses was the younger brother of Iwan Moses (see Grindelallee 116) and grew up in the family of his parents. He worked as a metal broker for the "Siegfried Engel, Ex- und Import” company. On 21 Apr. 1926, he married Mathilde, née Cohen. He lived with his wife and two daughters at Grindelallee 129, temporarily also at Heinrich-Barth-Strasse 7. The family emigrated to Amsterdam in June 1937. Shortly before that, they had moved to Grindelallee 134. In Amsterdam, they lived at Roerstraat 105 I. With the invasion of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht on 10 May 1940, the situation of the Jewish family became precarious in Amsterdam, too. Probably not until 1942, Salo, Mathilde, Alice, and Edith Moses were taken to the Westerbork camp, from where they were transported to Auschwitz on 4 September.

On 7 Sept. 1942, Mathilde and her daughters perished there in the gas chambers.

Concerning Salo Moses’ subsequent whereabouts, contradictory details have been passed down. His relative Lotte Degner referred to the witness Dr. phil. Waldschmidt (at that time residing in New York) in a restitution application dating from 1954. According to this information, he had already been shot while being transported to Auschwitz. Based on data from the Dutch Red Cross in 1961, Salo Moses was "selected” by the Schmelt Organization together with 200 fellow sufferers when the deportation train stopped in Cosel/Oder. The organization maintained a network of forced labor camps for the regional arms and textile industry in eastern Upper Silesia.

Salo Moses’ date of death was indicated as 31 Mar. 1944. By this time, the Schmelt Organization had already been disbanded and the surviving forced laborers had been transferred to subcamps of the Auschwitz and Gross Rosen concentration camps, which further reduced the prisoners’ chances of survival.

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

© Ulrike Sparr

Quellen: 1; 5; 8; StaH 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung 38212; StaH 332-5 Standesämter 13560; Adressbücher Hamburg 1926, 1932, 1936, 1937; www.joodsmonument.nl/person/496492 (letzter Aufruf: 27.2.15); Rudorff: Arbeit.
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