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I. Buildings Integral to the Former Life and/or Persecution of Jews in Hamburg - Neustadt/St. Pauli.
© Wilhelm Mosel, Deutsch-jüdische Gesellschaft Hamburg.
4. No. 24 Holstenwall.
The museum houses the:
1. Gedenkbuch für die jüdischen Opfer des Nationalsozialismus in Hamburg (Commemorative Book
for the Victims of National Socialism).
2. Permanent Exhibition - Jews in Hamburg.
The Commemorative Book is situated in the gallery on the second floor.
A copy is also available in the Museum Library, opening times: Tuesday to Thursday 11.00 - 16.00
Hrs.
Originally the Hamburg Senat initiated the book as part of the memorial to the victims of the Second
World War and of Nazi persecution situated in the ruin of the former Nikolaikirche.
The Commemorative Book was compiled from documents in the state archives and written and bound in
the Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste (Hamburg College of Fine Art). These documents included
the transport lists of deported Hamburg Jews, the tax files of the former Jewish religious
associations, and a list of all Hamburg Jewish survivers of Theresienstadt after the liberation of
the ghetto and police prison, etc.
The 1965 Senat first edition of the Commemorative Book contained:
1. Reports of the Gestapo deportation procedures by Dr. Max Plant, chairman of the Jewish
Community in Hamburg 1938-1943.
2. The victims of deportation.
3. Deportation transports from hospitals and mental hospitals.
4. Individual deportations to concentration camps.
5. Individuals who committed suicide under the extreme pressure of persecution.
6. An epilogue by the editor Harry Goldstein, then honary chairman of the Hamburg Jewish Community.
The first edition included an estimated total of 7,812 victims, however, only 6,012
of these could be named.
In the 1966 edition one name was deleted, this individual having been identified as a survivor of the
deportation transports.
In the 1982 edition eight names were deleted, these individuals having been identified as survivors of
the deportation transports.
The majority of the missing names are of Jews taken compulsorily over the border with Poland, or
following their compulsory emigration, those who became victims of persecution within the European
countries occupied by the German army.
The exact number of Jews persecuted for their political convictions can not be obtained due to
insufficient documentation. This is also the case concerning the documentation of places of
deportation in Hamburg. Practically all Gestapo files were burnt in April 1945 in the boiler
house of the Untersuchungsgefängnis (UG) (prison for people awaiting trial)
in Holstenglacis
and in Wallgraben near Sievekingsplatz.
Despite these difficulties 145 additional names of victims were listed in the 1982 edition.
Consequently, in the 1982 edition, the names of 6,148 victims are known; the estimated total
was raised to 7,834, but in reality the totaly is likely to be over 8,000.
| 1. Deportation Transports
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Transport
No. | Date | Assembly
Point
| Destination | Deported | Victims
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| 1. | 25.10.1941 | Provinzialloge
Moorweidenstraße 36
| Lodz | | 1033
| | 2. | 8.11.1941 | Provinzialloge
Moorweidenstraße 36
| Minsk | 1004 | 963
| | 3. | 18.11.1941 | Provinzialloge
Moorweidenstraße 36
| Minsk | 407 | 403
| | 4. | 6.12.1941 | Provinzialloge
Moorweidenstraße 36
| Riga | 766 | 774
| | 5. | 11.07.1942 | Gemeinschaftshaus
Hartungstraße 9-11
| Auschwitz | circa 375 | 300
| | 6. | 15.07.1942 | Volksschule
Schanzenstraße (120)
| Theresienstadt | 926 | 881
| | 7. | 19.07.1942 | Provinzialloge
Moorweidenstraße 36
| Theresienstadt | 881 | 668
| | 8. | 12.02.1943 | Gemeinschaftshaus
Hartungstraße 9-11
| Auschwitz | 24 | 23
| | 9. | 24.02.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 50 | 36
| | 10. | 10.03.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 50 | 36
| | 11. | 24.03.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 50 | 50
| | 12. | 5.05.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 50 | 32
| | 13. | 9.06.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | circa 100 | 72
| | 14. | 23.06.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 108 | 94
| | 15. | 19.01.1944 |
| Theresienstadt | 61 | 14
| | 16. | 30.01.1945 |
| Theresienstadt | 45 | 4
| | 17. | 14.02.1945 | Talmud-Torah-Schule
Grindelhof 30
| Theresienstadt | 194 | 4
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| 2. Suicides in Hamburg due to Persecution (1935-1945)
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| Suicides | | 314
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| 3. Deaths in Concentration Camps and Prisons of Individuals
Arrested or Arrested and Deported in Hamburg and the rest of Germany
| | Deaths in Concentration Camps and Prisons of Individual Arrests
| "Fuhlsbüttel"
Neuengamme Concentration Camp
| | 211
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| 4. Deaths in Connection with the Deportation of Mentally Ill Patients
from Hospitals in Hamburg and the rest of Germany
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| Deaths of Mentally Ill Patients in Connection with Deportation
| "Langenhorn" | | 132
| | "Farmsen" | | 2
| | "Oberaltenallee" | | 1
| | | | 18
| | 5. Estimated Deaths from the Poland Deportation Transport (28.10.1938)
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| Estimated Deaths from the Zbaszyn, Poland Deportation Transport (28.10.1938)
| Hüttengefängnis
Hütten (40-42) | | 800
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| 6. Estimated Deaths in Connection with the Deportation of
Compulsory Emigrants Arrested in German Occupied European Countries
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| Estimated Deaths in Connection with the Deportation of
Compulsory Emigrants | | 1,000
| | 7. Other Deaths (Name, Circumstances, or Place Unknown)
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| Other Deaths | "Friedrichsberg"
| | 19 | 19
| | | 3
| | Number of Named Victims | 6148
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| Number of Named Victims minus the Victims of the Poland Deportation
Transport (34), Compulsory Emigrants (96) and Others (3) | 6015
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| Estimated Number of Victims (6. and 7.) minus "Friedrichsberg" (19)
| 1819
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| Total Number of Victims | 7834
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What follows are the figures from the 1995 edition of the Commemorative Book:
The foreword is by Peter Jaffé, member of the board of the Hamburg Jewish Community.
| A Summary of the Number of Victims
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| Victims of the 17 Hamburg Deportation Transports between 1941-1945
| 5296
| | Victims deported from The Netherlands
| 542
| | Victims deported from France
| 113
| | Victims deported from Belgium
| 32
| | Victims deported from Italy
| 10
| | Victims of "Euthenasia" Killings
| 140
| | Suicides Committed outside of Death Camps, Concentration Camps, Detention and Prison
| 319
| | Victims of other methods of Persecution
| 2425
| | Total Number of Victims
| 8877
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A Summary of the Number of Established Victims.
The Hamburg Deportation Transports:
The Deportation to Zbaszyn, Poland on 28.10.1938
On 28.10.1938 the security police and Gestapo arrested 1,000 Hamburg Jews of Polish nationality
and deported them from Hamburg and brutally forced them over the German-Polish border near the
Polish town of Zbaszyn. The fate of the majority is unknown. In the first half of 1939 a minority
were allowed to return to Hamburg under the condition that, within the following few weeks, they
acquire ratification of "emigration" from the financial department and other government departments,
and then immediately "emigtrate". Many did not achieve this within the set time limit and were
transported to Fuhlsbüttel Concentration Camp by the Gestapo.
There are a total of 355 established victims of the original deportation transport on
28.10.1938 to
Zbaszyn in Poland.
The total number of victims is unknown.
| Victims of the 17 Hamburg Deportation Transports between 1941-1945
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Transport
No. | Date | Assembly
Point
| Destination | Deported | Victims
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| 1. | 25.10.1941 | Provinzialloge
Moorweidenstraße 36
| Lodz | 1034 | 1016
| | 2. | 8.11.1941 | Provinzialloge
Moorweidenstraße 36
| Minsk | 968 | 954
| | 3. | 18.11.1941 | Provinzialloge
Moorweidenstraße 36
| Minsk | 407 | 403
| | 4. | 6.12.1941 | Provinzialloge
Moorweidenstraße 36
| Riga | 753 | 726
| | 5. | 11.07.1942 | Gemeinschaftshaus
Hartungstraße 9-11
| Auschwitz | 300 | 292
| | 6. | 15.07.1942 | Volksschule
Schanzenstraße (120)
| Theresienstadt | 926 | 882
| | 7. | 19.07.1942 | Provinzialloge
Moorweidenstraße 36
| Theresienstadt | 771 | 669
| | 8. | 12.02.1943 | Gemeinschaftshaus
Hartungstraße 9-11
| Auschwitz | 24 | 21
| | 9. | 24.02.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 51 | 36
| | 10. | 10.03.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 50 | 38
| | 11. | 24.03.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 50 | 48
| | 12. | 5.05.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 51 | 32
| | 13. | 9.06.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 80 | 66
| | 14. | 23.06.1943 | Beneckestraße
(Von-Melle-Park 13)
| Theresienstadt | 109 | 91
| | 15. | 19.01.1944 |
| Theresienstadt | 61 | 20
| | 16. | 30.01.1945 |
| Theresienstadt | 19 | -
| | 17. | 14.02.1945 | Talmud-Torah-Schule
Grindelhof 30
| Theresienstadt | 194 | 4
| | Total Numbers | 5848 | 5292
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The total number of victims remains unknown due to the sources. In particular evidence is missing
of those
Jews who having "emigrated" to east European countries were murdered during the German occupation.
The estimated total number of victims is likely to be close to 10,000.
German text: Dipl.-Pol. Wilhelm Mosel, Deutsch-Jüdische Gesellschaft, Hamburg.
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