Hans Goldfreund

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Hans Goldfreund - Died in Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Born: 23rd February 1896, Berlin, Germany.

Married: I don't think so?

Occupation: - Jeweller, Kurfürstendamm 75, Berlin, Germany

Died: Shortly after 17 November 1943? Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland. Age: 47

Auschwitz Concentration Camp No: 127014

Siblings:
----- Henriette Else Goldfreund, Margarete Grete Goldfreund, Paula Goldfreund Wilk, Erna Goldfreund

----- List of addresses in Berlin from Nazis records

----- Berlin Businesses:
---------- 1920 - 1932 Berlin Phone Directory
-------------- Geschw (sisters?) Goldfreund: Schneiderin (seamstresses) on Jablonskistr 37. Perhaps Erna's sisters were doing the sewing for her Modesalon?
---------- 1919 Berlin Phone Directory
-------------- Erna Goldfreund - Modesalon (owner) on Kurfurstendamm 75
-------------- Charl. Goldfreund & Emmi Kuhn - Putzgeschäft (cleaning shop?), Elberfelder Str 33
---------- 1920 Berlin Phone Directory
-------------- Erna Goldfreund - Modesalon on Kurfurstendamm 75
-------------- Else Goldfreund - (and sisters) Schneiderin at Jablonskistraße 37
---------- 1925 Berlin Phone Directory
-------------- Else Goldfreund- Schneiderin at Jablonskistraße 37
-------------- Erna Goldfreund- Putzgeschäft on Kurfurstendamm 75
-------------- Hans Goldfreund - Juwelier (shop called Goldfreund & Rosenbaum) on Kurfurstendamm 75
---------- 1930 - 32 Berlin Phone Directory
-------------- Erna Goldfreund - Modewekst. on Kurfurstendamm 75
-------------- Geschw (sisters?) Goldfreund - Schneiderin at Jablonskistraße 37
---------- 1935 Berlin Phone Directory
-------------- Hans Goldfreund - Goldschmidt on Uhlandstr. 24 (near Kurfurstendamm)
---------- 1938 Berlin Phone Directory
-------------- Paula Goldfreund - Putzgeschäft on Wullenweber Str 3
-------------- Hans Goldfreund - Goldschmidt on Kleiststraße 31

Parents:
----- Adolf Goldfreund: 1854, 3rd June - Breslau, Silesia, Prussia? - 1902, 5th April - Berlin, Germany
----- Emma Jablonsky: 1854, 9th December - Breslau, Silesia, Prussia - 1915, 25th April - Berlin, Germany

Grandparents:
----- Simon Julius Goldfreund: 1817, 15 Sep - Breslau, Silesia, Prussia - 1894, 4th August - Berlin, Germany
----- Marianne Ginsberg: Abt. 1818 - Breslau, Silesia, Prussia - 1900, 19th January - Berlin, Germany
-------------- Children: Adolf Goldfreund | Isidor Goldfreund   |   Emilie Goldfreund Hersch | Moritz Kallmann (Mosche Kallmann) Goldfreund (B: 1840, 16 Dec, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia | D: 1862, 10 Feb, Breslau, Prussia | Burial: 1862, 12 Feb, Lohestrasse Jüdischer Friedhof (Feld VIII, Reihe 2, Grab Nr. 207), Breslau).

Great Grandparents:
----- Kallmann Simon (Kalonymus) Goldfreund: 1779, 22 Jun, Breslau, Silesia - 1818, 12 Nov, Breslau, Silesia | Burial: Claassenstrasse Jüdischer Friedhof (Grab Nr. 3574), Breslau
----- Pauline (Pesse) Wolff (Baron): 27 Apr 1787, Breslau, Silesia - 21 Jan 1846, Breslau, Prussia | Burial: 23 Jan 1846, Claassenstrasse Jüdischer Friedhof (Grab Nr. 961), Breslau
---------- Search jri-poland.org - Search "Goldfreund" (exact) - then click Prussia (results)

Great Great Grandparents:
----- Simcha (Simon) Goldfreund
----- Hanna Lippmann

Check out the jewishvirtuallibrary.org with regard to the history of Jews in Breslau (Polish Wroclaw), Silesia, Poland (in Germany until 1945).

Hans Goldfreund Family Tree

Hans Goldfreund Family tree

Goldfreund Family Tree (in progress) on ancestry.co.uk and as image tree.

Surname Goldfreund
The origin of the surname Goldfreund: Goldfreund literally means "friend of gold" or "golden friend" in German. Goldfreund is linked to the popular female personal name Golda and to the precious metal gold. Golda became a widespread Jewish female personal name from which some family names were developed.
 

Piecing Together Hans Goldfreund's Life

WWI
In WW1 Hans Goldfreund seems to have served as a German Soldier* with Leib Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm III." (1st Brandenburg) No. 8. The Body Guard Grenadiers Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm III." (1. Brandenburg) no. 8 was an infantry joined to the Prussian army. The regiment mobilized when the WW1 broke out on August 2, 1914. As part of the 9th Infantry Brigade, the regiment marched into neutral Belgium and fought at Tirlemont. Thereafter it took part at the Battle of Mons, Le Cateau, Marne and Aisne. After the autumn 1915 battle in Champagne, the regiment was deployed in front of Verdun at the end of February 1916 and took part in the Battle of the Somme in July / August 1916.
  • 1916 - 29 August, 2 October & 2 October Hans Goldfreund is reported in the "Deutsche Berlusslichten" as being lightly wounded and missing.
Post WWI
Hans Goldfreund returned to Berlin where his sisters are living and runs a Jewellery shop "Goldfreund & Rosenbaum" in Charlottenburg, Kurfürstendamm.
  • 1925 - Jewellery Shop: Hans Goldfreund is running Jewellery Shop "Goldfreund & Rosenbaum" in Charlottenburg, Kurfürstendamm 75 Erdg. T. Sieinpl. 305.
  • 1933 January - Hitler was appointed Chancellor and Head of the German government.
  • 1935 - 1936 Residence: Chlb 2, Uhlandstr. 24, Schöneberg, Berlin
  • 1936 - Goldschmidt: Hans Goldfreund is running a Goldschmidt at Courbierestr. 16, Berlin
    1935 -1936: Jews liberties are restricted including losing their German citizenship, right to vote, are banned from parks and restaurants and swimming pools, are no longer allowed electrical/optical equipment, bicycles, typewriters or records and their passports to travel abroad are restricted.
  • 1938 - Goldschmidt & Residence: Kleiststr 31, Schöneberg, Berlin. This may have been Hans Goldfreund's last known residence where he lived "freely". According to a 1938 Berlin telephone directory he was was still trading as Jeweller.
    17 Aug 1938 - "Israel"/"Sara": a decree was passed in the German Reich which required Jews bearing first names of "non-Jewish" origin to adopt an additional name: "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women. This was displayed on all their birth certificates.

    Moreover, special identity cards were issued to Jews and Jews' passports stamped with a red letter 'J'. Some Jews have their passports removed to prevent them leaving the country. Jews are excluded from cinema, theatre, concerts, exhibitions, beaches and holiday resorts.

    9 and 10 November 1938 - “Kristallnacht” “Night of Broken Glass”: Nazis torched more than 1,400 synagogues, vandalized/destroyed over 7,500 Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed circa 400 Jews throughout Germany. In the following days, the Gestapo arrested around 30,000 Jewish men and detained them in concentration camps (Buchenwald, near Weimar; Dachau, near Munich; and Sachsenhausen, near Berlin). Hundreds of these detained Jews were murdered by the SS in the concentration camps.

    12 November 1938 - The Decree on the Exclusion of Jews from German Economic Life: closes all Jewish-owned businesses.
  • 1939 February 21 - The Surrender of Precious Metals and Stones in Jewish Ownership Decree: requires Jews to turn in gold, silver, diamonds, and other valuables to the state without compensation.
  • 1939 May 17 - Hans Goldfreund's last free dwelling address: Kleiststr. 31, Schöneberg, Berlin, German Reich. This where the Stolperstein will be placed.
  • 1939 September 1 - The start of World War II: when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on the Nazi state in retaliation.
World War II
  • 1941, September 1: The Yellow Star of David: the Reich Minister of the Interior decreed that Jews over the age of 6, in the Greater German Reich, must wear a yellow Star of David on their outer clothing in public, at all times.
  • 1943 February and March - The Rosenstraße Protests, Berlin
    In 1943 some 7,000 Jewish citizens still remained in Berlin? At the end of February 1943, some 8,000 Jewish citizens of Berlin were detained for deportations by the SS and the Gestapo. This included some 2,000 Jews, mostly men, who were partners in mixed marriages which had until then been tolerated and spared from persecution. Separated from the rest of the prisoners, they were taken to the building which had formerly housed the Jewish Welfare Administration in Rosenstraße 2-4. The women gathered in front of the building with their children on the evening of 27 February 1943 and demanded to speak with their loved ones.

    There followed a later call for the release of their family members from the so-called "Factory Action", the euphemism used to denote the final round-up of Berlin's Jews in 1943. For a week, some 600 women engaged in daily protests. On 6 March 1943, the first prisoners were released, with the remaining detainees released in the following days. In the Third Reich, The Rosenstraße Protest is apparently the only mass public demonstration by Germans against the deportation of Jews.
  • 1943 until June - Residence: Hans Goldfreund was living in Charlottenburg, Kantstr. 44-45 and was a subtenant of Loewe. This address is listed as his address before deportation (From Yadvashem.org).
    His deportation records state he was a subtenant of Loewe. Was Hans in hiding there or living there in open? It does not apprear that Loewe were taken at the same time as Hans - search surname "Loewe". I am trying to find out information about the Loewe's of Kantstr. 44-45, Berlin.

    Sadly, additional Jewish victims where deported from Kantstr. 44-45: the Gumpert family and their aunt Mirjam Levy: the aunt 14.11.1941 to Minsk Ghetto, Mother and daughter 12.3.1943 to Auschwitz, Father was deported in 1943 to Auschwitz, transferred to Dachau in 28.1.1945, then in April 1945 was forced on the TODESMARSCH and freed on 29.4.1945.
  • Witness Statements:
    Ceilie Messen Jaschin
    Gertrud Neuburger
Deportation:

Hans Goldfreund Deportation card

  • 1943 June 28: Osttransport 39 / Transport 39*** from Berlin to Auschwitz Concentration / Extermination Camp, Poland
  • Details of Deportation Transport 39*
    Deportation Transport 39***: The deportees included in the late transports from Berlin to Auschwitz were often Jewish spouses in so-called "mixed marriages" that were suspected of violating the anti-Jewish regulations. Another group of deportees was Jews who lived illegally in hiding and were caught, often due to a denunciation of German civilians or Jewish collaborators. Occasionally, Jewish prisoners were transferred from civilian prisons and put on a transport, as was the case of the two of the deportees on this transports who were taken out of the Zuchthaus Brandenburg prison. Prior to their deportation, the deportees were held at the Gestapo interment facility at Iranische Strasse or at Grosse Hamburger-Strasse.

    June 1943 - The city of Berlin was declared officially Judenfrei ("Free of Jews").
  • Details of Transport*: Transport 39 from Berlin, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland
  • No. of deportees**: Min 314 | Max 346
  • Names of deportees: From Yadvashem: Transport 39, Names of deportees
  • Date of Arrival***: 29.06.1943
  • Auschwitz Concentration Camp No: 127014
    Only in Auschwitz were the numbers tattooed on the prisoners; in other concentration camps, the prisoners' numbers were worn on their clothing.


    Auschwitz Nazi Death Camp

  • Auschwitz Hospitalisations in 1943 (from Arolsen Archiv):
    • August 17 to 24 (less than two months after he arrived (1943 June 28)) - 8 days
    • Sept 3 to Oct 9 - 7 days
    • Oct 21 to 26 - 6 days
    • November 8 to 17 - 10 days
    • Total - 31 days suffering in the camp's hospital. I think he died shortly after 17th November, 1943 (he was 47 years old).
  • Forced Labour: for IG FARBEN at Auschwitz III - Monowitz (Buna)****
    Auschwitz.org's quoted source for Hans Goldfreund's Auschwitz Number cites "Häftlingskrankenbau Auschwitz III". This document includes prisoners of Auschwitz III - Monowitz (Buna), who were forced labour for the construction of a synthetic rubber factory (IG Farben), who due to illness or accident were taken to the Auschwitz III concentration camp's hospital. The database contains 15,707 personal records. As a result of the horrible conditions of work at IG Farben Auschwitz, many prisoners were sent to the Auschwitz III concentration hospital. Monowitz (Buna) was a subcamp of Auschwitz concentration camp which held around 6,000 prisoners in 1943, and almost 11,000 in the late summer of 1944. The SS established the camp in October 1942 at the request of IG Farben to provide slave labour to build the third largest synthetic rubber and liquid fuels plant, Buna Werke (Buna Works) industrial complex. From November 1943 Monowitz (Buna) and other Nazi subcamps in the area were jointly known as "Auschwitz III-subcamps" (KL Auschwitz III-Aussenlager).
    IG Farben (Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG (Dye Industry Syndicate corporation)) was a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate, the largest company in Europe and the largest chemical and pharmaceutical company in the world. IG Farben was formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical companies: Agfa, BASF, Bayer, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, Chemische Fabrik and Hoechst. IG Farben has been described as "the most notorious German industrial concern during the Third Reich". In the 1940s, IG Farben relied on slave labour from concentration camps, including 30,000 from Auschwitz. Even more horrific, IG Farben was involved in medical experiments on inmates at both Auschwitz and the Mauthausen concentration camp. One of its subsidiaries supplied the poison gas, Zyklon B, that killed over one million victims in gas chambers during the Holocaust.
    The life expectancy of Jewish workers at Buna Werke (IG Farben Auschwitz) was three to four months; for those working in the outlying mines, only one month. Those deemed unfit for work were gassed at Auschwitz II Birkenau. Hans Goldfreund's hospitalisation dates (who was aged circa 47, at the time) are, every month... 6ucking hell - did he suffer terribly from forced experiments undertaken on him or was the work so horrific at IG Farben Auschwitz? There is no record of Hans Goldfreund after his last hospitalisation. On 17.11.43 he was discharged from hospital and sent to Auschwitz II Birkenau. On the transfer notification to AuschwitZ (Uberstellungameldung nach Auschwitz) it states, by his name, Korperschwache (weak body). One can only assume that he was worked so hard that he became unfit to work and as he was no longer fit to work at IG Farben Auschwitz he was sent to his death at Auschwitz II Birkenau.
  • Place of death: Auschwitz II Birkenau Extermination Camp, Poland
  • Murdered: The International Tracing Centre's document for Hans Goldfreund indicates there is no proof of death. On being transferred from the Auschwitz III - Monowitz (Buna) hospital on the 17.11.43 to Auschwitz II Birkenau, one can assume he died shortly after.
  • Age of death: circa 47
  • Postscript:
    It has been estimated that, 1,670 prisoners were murdered at the IG Farben building site or died in the sub-camp hospital, and 11,000 prisoners were sent to Auschwitz II Birkenau, where the majority of them were killed with a lethal injection of phenol or in the gas chambers. The Allies bombed the IG Farben factories at Monowitz four times - the first on 20 August 1944 and the last 26 December 1944. On 18 January 1945, all prisoners in Monowitz whom the Nazis deemed healthy enough to walk were evacuated from the camp and sent on a death march to the Gleiwitz (Gliwice) subcamp near the Czech border. The remaining prisoners were liberated on 27 January 1945 by the Red Army. Of the few survivors of Monowitz (Buna): Primo Levi, author of If This Is a Man (1947) and Elie Wiesel, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book Night (1960) are among the survivors.
    WW2 "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals": The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al., also known as the IG Farben Trial, indictment was filed on May 3, 1947. The IG Farben Trial ran from August 27, 1947, to June 11, 1948, making it the third longest Nuremberg trial. Of the 24 IG Farben defendants accused of war crimes, incredulously only 13 were found guilty on one or the other counts of the indictment and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to eight years, including time already served; 10 defendants were acquitted of all charges. See list of IG Farben defendants.
Sources:
Bundesarchiv.de Gedenkbuch
* : Leib Grenadier Regiment Nr 8 & Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919: 1916 Deutsche Berlusslichten: Verlust - Liste Nr 1127 (29 Aug 1916) | Liste Nr 1185 (02 Okt 1916) & Liste Nr 1233 (28 Okt 1916)
** : Yadvashem.org name record
*** : Transport 39 Deportation list from Yadvashem.org
**** : auschwitz.org and wollheim-memorial
 

MURDER OF SISTERS - IN ORDER OF HORRENDEOUS FATE KNOWN:

1942 May 9 - Margarete Goldfreund - Chelmno Extermination Camp

Margarete Goldfreund (also know as Grete Goldfreund)

  • Born: 1st July 1887 in Berlin / - / Germany
  • Name on Birth Certificate: Lucie Margarethe Goldfreund
  • Occupation: Verkäuferin - shop assistant?
  • Berlin Residency: 1929 - 1939, 17 May - Friedrichstr. 129
  • Berlin Residency: 1941 - Friedrichstr. 129
Deportation 1:
  • 1941 November 1: Osttransport 4 / Transport 4* from Berlin to Litzmannstadt (Lodz), Ghetto, arriving November 2, 1941

    Litzmannstadt (Lodz), Ghetto

  • Details of Deportation Transport 4*:
    Transport 4 was the fourth transport from Berlin (Welle IV – “Wave IV”), which departed from Grunewald station, Berlin, out of over 60 transports to the East (Osttransporte) which together took more than 35,000 Jews from Berlin to ghettos and extermination sites in Eastern Europe. The files of the Department for Jewish affairs at the Berlin Gestapo were burned during the last weeks of the war and there are no name lists available for the first eight transports from Berlin to the East, including the first four transports to Lodz. After the war, copies of Gestapo files and index cards were discovered in the archive of the Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin-Brandenburg which made it possible to determine the majority of the names of the deportees, but it is still difficult to ascertain their exact number.
  • No. of deportees** : Min 1,033 | Max 1,079
  • Names of deportees: From Yadvashem: Transport 4, Names of deportees
  • Date of Arrival* : 2nd November 1941 (Lodz Ghetto)
  • Wartime Address*** : 53, FLAT 6 SULZFELDER STRASSE / Brzezinska, Lodz, Ghetto, (today Wojska Polskiego Street) living with 9 others? Brzezinska street started at Plac Koscielny at Lagiewnicka Street, and ended at the eastern border of the ghetto. Several important institutions were located in the neighborhood of St. Mary's Assumptions Church and Brzezinska street, Lodz Ghetto. lodz-ghetto.com. On January 16, 1942, the SS and police began deportations from the Lodz ghetto.
The Contents Of Margarete Goldfreund's Flat Are Stolen by the Nazis
  • 1941, December 1 - Circa a month after her deportation to Litzmannstadt (Lodz), Ghetto, the contents of her flat on Friedrichstr. 129 were stolen by the Nazis See the deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/
Deportation 2:
  • 1942, May 9: Transported from Litzmannstadt Lodz Ghetto to Kulmhof (Chelmno), Extermination Camp, Poland
    The Jews who were deported by freight train from the Łódź ghetto, reached Koło railway station, six miles northwest of Chelmno. There SS and police officials supervised the transfer of the Jews from the freight trains to a train running on a narrow-gauge track, which took them to the Powiercie station, three miles northwest of Chelmno. From there, they walked in a "Death March" for about 2 km to the village of Zawadka, where they spent the night in a large mill building. The next day, they were taken in trucks to their immediate deaths (gassed) in Kulmhof (Chelmno) Extermination Camp, Poland. Source: a lovely researcher of the Chelmno Muzeum
  • Murdered: 10th May 1942
  • Place of death: Kulmhof (Chelmno), Extermination Camp, Poland
  • Kulmhof (Chelmno), Extermination Camp: Was the first stationary facility where poison gas was used for mass murder of Jews.
  • Age of death: 54
Sources:
Bundesarchiv.de Gedenkbuch
* : Transport 4 Deportation list from Yadvashem.org
** : Bundesarchiv.de Gedenkbuch chronology of deporations
*** : List of residents at 53, FLAT 6 SULZFELDER STRASSE from Yadvashem.org
Yadvashem.org name record
Yadvashem.org name record
Yadvashem.org name record
 

1943, July 23 - Paula Goldfreund Wilk- Sobibor Extermination Camp

Paula Goldfreund (married name Paula Wilk)

  • Born: 3rd Jan 1892 in Berlin / - / Germany
  • Name on Birth Certificate: Paula Goldfreund
  • Occupation: ?
  • Berlin Residency: 1932 - Steglitz, Hardenbergstr 6, Berlin
  • Residency: 1939 - ? Not on the mappingthelives.org data base? So maybe by 1939 she had left Berlin to The Netherlands?
  • Residency: before 1943 and her deportation: The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Meerhuizenplein 36 III
1st Marriage: Diamitr Hussein - Berlin, Germany
  • Daughter: Ingeborg Goldfreund Hussein. Born 26 Feb 1916 in Berlin, Germany | SURVIVED
    ----- 1938*: Ingeborg Hussein (at the age of 22) is reported as being stateless, destitute and a resident of Bulgaria
    ----- 1939, 18th May: Ingeborg sailed on the S.S "Nicolas" Burgos and entered illegally Isdud, Palestine; Source

    Ingeborg Goldfreund Hussein daughter of Paula Goldfreund

    ----- 1939, 24th May: Ingeborg Goldfreund was released By Order Of The High Commissioner, Haifa (HURRAH!)
    ----- 1955 onwards: Restitution Cases Against The Deutsche Reich** - Ingeborg Hussein raised several restitution cases (with Erna Schwarz nee Goldfreund) against The Deutsche Reich regarding her Mother (Paula Goldfreund), Aunts (Margarete and Else) and Uncle (Hans Goldfreund) - see Restitution Cases Against The Deutsche Reich for Paula Goldfreund.
    In 1957, Ingeborg Goldfreund Hussein was living in Cyprus, Limassol: Christ-Hagibavelos Str. 85. She may have been divorced with one child? Any info on Ingeborg Goldfreund Hussein would be greatly appreciated.
2nd Marriage: Rafaël Wilk - Abt 1942 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • ----- Rafaël Wilk (2nd husband): Born: 1886, 18 May - Sanok, Podkarpackie, Poland | Murdered: 1944, 28 Jan - Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland | Age of Death: 58 | Occupation: Merchant | Was living in Pre 1943 Guest house 'Van Gelder', Gedempte Gracht 33, Den Haag, Amsterdam - unknown date | 1943, July - was residing at W.A. Hoeve Institution in Den Dolder
    ----- Bernard Wilk (Son of Rafaël Wilk and Ester Hendel Pawliger) Born: 1914, 11 Jun - Antwerpen, Belgium | Murdered: 1944, 31 Mar - Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland | Age of Death: 30 | Occupation: Sales representative | In 1942 was living in Weesperstraat 41 - 43, Amsterdam with his wife, Margaretha Wilk nee van Ments.
    ---------- Margaretha Wilk nee van Ments (Wife of Bernard Wilk): Born: 1919, 2 May - 's‑Gravenhage, Den Haag, Netherlands | Murdered: 1943, 3 Sep - Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland | Age of Death: 24
    ----- Juda Wilk (Daughter of Rafaël Wilk and Ester Hendel Pawliger) Born: 1920, 16 Apr - 's‑Gravenhage, Den Haag, Netherlands | Murdered: 1942, 30 Sep - Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland | Age of Death: 22 | Occupation: Shopowner and was living in Franç. Valentijnstraat 81, Den Haag with the van der Kloots)
Paula Wilk nee Goldfreund's Detainment:
  • 1943, March, 30: Taken from 36 Meerhuizenplein, Amsterdam to and detained in Westerbork Transit Camp, The Netherlands. We can;t suss what "bag" [Residing?] and "AV" [Emigration Office or (i.e. Angestelltenversicherung) employees' insurance?] stand for | WBK [Westerbork], "bar" [Barrack] .
    Below is a rough translation of the Arolsen Archives Detention Documents for Paula Wilk nee Goldfreund and so kindly translated by my sweestest ever Young Wilhelm, who I met in, Milano, when we were living there.
    Arolsen Archives Detention Documents for Paula Wilk nee Goldfreund: Image 1
    Wilk, Goldfreund, Paula | WBK [Westerbork], bar [Barrack] 60, Amsterdam, Meerhuizenplein 36 [Her address] | 31.1.92, Berlin [her date of birth] | 28612 [Her record number?]
    Arolsen Archives: Detention Documents for Paula Wilk nee Goldfreund: Image 5.


    Westerbork Transit Camp

    April 1st: "In welk stadium bevindt zich deze zaak op het ogenblik" = How far are we in the process of the application [for Paula Wilk nee Goldfreund]".
    April 1st < Bag 30.3, bar 60 - [Paula] arrived 30th of March, Barracks 60
    April 2nd > A / Kindeer [I think a surname and not a place name?]: Albersheim [I think a surname and not a place name?] - verkl. ?
    April 5th < Pieces [Documents?] handed over to the person involved [Paula], person involved [Paula] married to Raphael W who is nursed elsewhere. Emigration department has to send a new declaration with the name of the husband/spouse.
    Arolsen Archives: Detention Documents for Paula Wilk nee Goldfreund: Image 6
    April 8 > Theeboom [sounds like a surname] / A: Awe. Albersheim [sounds like a surname] declaration in which spouse Raphael Wilk is included.
    April 9 > bag 30.3 [Arrived 30th of March]
    April 11 < new declaration handed over to the person [Paula] involved to (9-4)
    April 12 > bag 9.4
    April 10 > confirmation + telegram
    April 17 < bag 15.4 bar 60
    31-0?-43 Huipakreeft / Huipaheafs? > - > Westerbork answer telegram Red Cross in Palestina [Palestine]
    May 8 < bag 7.5 bar 81A bed 123
    May 11 < AV -- > Emigration: they have handed over an answer to the telegram. Application [german: Antrag] is submitted
    June 2 > Emigration - > AV: Palestina telegram received: "antrag/auftrag für Austausch Zertifikat gestellt" [application/order for replacement certificate submitted]
    Arolsen Archives: Detention Documents for Paula Wilk nee Goldfreund: Image 3
    July 12 < AV --- > Emigration Application Palestina [Palestine] handed over (?) to husband/spouse (Raphael, [born] 8.5.86. Address: W.A. Hoeve Institution in Den Dolder [a village in the Netherlands in the province of Utrecht]) uit buitenig (???) to/from his name. - 10/7/43
    July 16 > Emigration --- > W: Have sent declaration on his name to Raphael Wilk in Den Dolder. 15/7/43
    October 25 < Emigration: further steps no goal: 15/10/43
    Interpretation of these Detention Documents (and hugest thanks to Young Wilhem - was someone (I think her daughter Ingeborg Hussein who had managed to flee to Palestine in 1939, 18th May) desperately fighting to save the life of (her Mother) Paula nee Goldfreund via the Red Cross and arrange for Paula's emigration to Palestine. Paula Goldfreund's first marriage was to a non-jew, a Mr Hussein (which sounds Arabic?). Did her husband Rafaël Wilk receive the communications? Fook... The W.A. Hoeve Institution was founded around 1906 and has a long history of (psychiatric) care - so maybe her lovely second husband Rafaël Wilk was not in the capacity to respond OR he had escaped their to flee Nazi prosecution?. Horrendous fate, her Detention Documents indciate "in October 25 < Emigration: further steps no goal". According to the Arolsen Archives, Paula Wilk nee Goldfreund was guttingly, deported from Westerbork Transit Camp, The Netherlands to Sobibor Extermination Camp, Poland in July 20th 1943.
    Westerbork Camp was opened on 9 October 1939, in the province of Drenthe, Netherlands, "to house the refugees from Germany that live in this country". By 1941, Westerbork Camp had a population of 1,100 in 200 small wooden houses and eventually there were to be 107 large wooden barracks, each designed to hold 300 people. At the end of 1941, the German Ministry of Justice decided that Westerbork would become a transit camp for Jews destined to be deported to the east. The transfer of Jews from Amsterdam to Westerbork began on the night of 14/15 July 1942, and the first deportation to Auschwitz started on the following day. From 2 February 1943, deportation trains left Westerbork on Tuesdays, although there were periods in which no deportations took place. On 3 September 1944, the final transport from Westerbork Transit Camp to Auschwitz took place. Source: The Holocaust Research Project.
  • 1943 July 20: Deported from Westerbork Transit Camp, The Netherlands to Sobibor Extermination Camp, Poland. Arolsen Archives: Source doc.
  • Paula Goldfreund: Sobibor Extermination Camp, Poland
  • Murdered: 1943, 23 July - see The Bundesarchiv Memorial Book
    (Circa five months after her departure from Westerbork, Paula Goldfreund's second husband, Rafaël Wilk, may have been detained in Westerbork on the 16th December 1943 (source: Arolsen-Archives.org. Six weeks later, Rafaël Wilk was murdered in Auschwitz on the 28 Jan 1944.)
  • Place of death: Sobibor Extermination Camp, Poland
  • Age of death: circa 51
  • Sobibor Extermination Camp: From April 1942 until mid-October 1943, the German SS and their auxiliaries killed at least 167,000 people at Sobibor. On October 14, 1943, the Jewish resistance in Sobibor launched an uprising during which some 300 prisoners escaped. Most of the escapees were subsequently hunted down and killed, but some 50 survived the war. After the revolt, German camp officials dismantled the killing center.

    Sobibor Extermination Camp, Poland

Sources:
Bundesarchiv.de Gedenkbuch
* : Palestine, Illegal Immigration from German-Occupied Europe, 1938-1945 (USHMM): Document Number: D/329/39/CHU
 

1943 September 28 - Else Goldfreund - Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Else Goldfreund

  • Born: 17th October 1885 in Berlin / - / Germany
  • Name on Birth Certificate: Henriette Else Goldfreund
  • Occupation: Schneiderin - Seamstress / Dressmaker / Tailoress
  • Marriage: ? She may have been widowed by 1914?
  • Berlin Residency: 1936 - Tempelhof, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 44
  • Berlin Residency: 1939, 17 May - Tempelhof, Schulenburgring 130, bei Marx
  • Berlin Residency: 1943 - Lindauer Straße 5, Schoneberg v.ptr b.Baruch
Deportation:

1943 June - The city of Berlin was declared officially Judenfrei, "Free of Jews".

  • 1943 September 21: Document?
  • 1943 September 28: Osttransport 43 / Transport 43 from Berlin to Auschwitz Concentration / Extermination Camp, Poland
  • Details of Deportation Transport 43*:
    The deportees of Transport 43** included in the later transports from Berlin to Auschwitz were often Jewish spouses in so-called "mixed marriages" who were suspected of violating the anti-Jewish regulations. Another group of deportees consisted of Jews who lived illegally in hiding and were caught, often due to their denunciation by German civilians or Jewish collaborators. Occasionally, Jewish prisoners were transferred from civilian prisons and put on such a transport. Prior to their deportation, the deportees were held at one of the Gestapo interment facilities on Iranische Strasse or Grosse Hamburger-Strasse.
  • No. of deportees**: Min 73 | Max 81
  • Names of deportees: Else Goldfreund's document listing her address as Lindauerstr. 6, Schoneberg, Berlin
  • Date of Arrival**: 01/10/1943
  • Auschwitz Concentration Camp No: Not found on auschwitz.org
    Only those deportees who were not selected at arrival in Auschwitz for immediate murder in the gas chambers were registered and assigned numbers by the SS. Was poor Else Goldfreund (aged circa 57) sent immediately to the horrific gas chambers?


    Auschwitz

  • Murdered: 28 September 1943?
  • Place of death: Auschwitz Concentration / Extermination Camp, Poland
  • Age of death: circa 57
  • Postscript:
    Else Goldfreund's siblings' deportations: Grete on Osttransport 4 (1941 November 1st, Berlin), Hans Goldfreund on Osttransport 39 (1943 June 28th, Berlin) and Paula Goldfreund Wilk on Osttransport 20 (1943 July 20, Netherlands) and so Else, was the last of her siblings to be deported by the Nazis to her death.

    Berlin Deportations
    Though Berlin was declared Judenfrei, "Free of Jews", in June 1943 more than 18 deportations took place from Berlin. The last reported deportation from Berlin commenced January 5 1945, Transport 61 / Osttransport 61, even though Germany was facing military defeat. Transport 61 included 21 recorded deportees who were sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, Sachsenhausen and Bergen Belsen concentration camp. These deportees may have included Jewish spouses in so-called “mixed marriages” who lost their protection due to divorce or death of the non-Jewish spouse, or who were suspected of violating the anti-Jewish regulations. Another group of deportees consisted of Jews who lived illegally in hiding and were caught, often due to their denunciation by German civilians or Jewish collaborators. The bundesarchiv.de Gedenkbuch records a tranport from Berlin as late as 27 March 1945 of 42 deportees to Theresienstadt - devastating as The Third Reich surrendered on 8 May 1945.

    Osttransport 1 from Berlin's Grunewald station to Lodz Ghetto, Poland is recorded as departing in 1941 on 18th of October transporting 1,013 deportees. Berlin's Osttransporte deported more than 35,000 Berlin Jews to ghettos and extermination sites throughout Eastern Europe. For a list of deportations which took place throughout Germany see yadvashem.org's Deportation Database.
Sources:
Bundesarchiv.de Gedenkbuch
* : Yadvashem.org name record
** : Transport 43 Deportation list from Yadvashem.org
 

THE ONLY KNOWN SURVIVOR OF HANS GOLDFREUND'S SISTERS / SIBLINGS

Erna Goldfreund

  • Born: 12 October 1894 in Berlin / - / Germany
  • Name on Birth Certificate: Erna Goldfreund
  • Resident 1931-1932: Berlin- Wilmersdorf, Babelsberger Str. 9
  • Resident / Modesalon 1934: Berlin - Kurfürstendamm 75
  • Occupation: Modesalon owner
  • 1st Marriage: ?
  • 2nd Marriage: Walter Schwarz (a lawyer?) on 24 Mar 1932, in Schöneberg, Berlin
  • Fled Germany*: Circa 1939 - on 5 Dec 1939 there is a UK WW2 Internee Record for Erna - named Erna Sara Schwarz a houswife living at 23 Brook Lodge, Hendon, NW4, which awards her exemption until further order from internment, and from special restrictions and allowed to stay in the UK (HURRAH!).

    Erna Goldfreund Schwarz ww2 UK alien internee card

  • Restitution Case Against The Deutsche Reich**: 1959 - for stolen Jewellery belonging to Margarete Goldfreund (her sister). Dr Walter Schwarz (her husband was one of the lawyers on the case.
  • Date of death: 17 April 1986
  • Place of death: 35 Troy Court, Kensington South, London, England.
    Gutted when I discovered this as I was studying in London at UCL at the time and Mummy came down to visit. Mummy would have so wished to see Erna Goldfreund.
  • Age of death: 92
Sources:
* : The National Archives; Kew, London, England; HO 396 WW2 Internees (Aliens) Index Cards 1939-1947; Reference Number: HO 396/239
** : Restitution Cases - Search "Goldfreund"
London, England, Electoral Registers
 
 

Hans Goldfreund's Cousins

From His Unkle Isidor Goldfreund (1822 - 1892, Berlin)

Isidor Goldfreund Family Tree

Isidor Goldfreund Family Tree

  • Isidor Goldfreund (Brother of Adolf Goldfreund, Hans' Father):
    ----- Isidor Goldfreund: 1822, 25 July - Friedeberg (in the Neumark) / Breslau (Poland) - 1892, 10 Feb - Berlin, Germany, buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee (burial number 10844). Isidor Goldfreund last lived at Friedrichstrasse 239 in Berlin-Mitte and died there. His occupation was meat merchant? The registration for the funeral was made by Mr. Salomon Neumann.

    ----- Wife - Luise Lotte Sorsky: 1845, 26 Jan - Gleiwitz (or Schleiwitz), Slaskie, Poland - 1901, 12 Nov - Berlin, Germany. She is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee (burial number 10844) beside her husband Isidor Goldfreund. Louise Goldfreund last lived at Lessingstrasse 16 and died there. She was widowed.

    ----- 1884 - 1886 they were living Potsdamer Strasse 107a, Berlin
  • Hans Goldfreund's cousins (children of Isidor Goldfreund) who died through natural causes / illness?
    ----- Gertrude Goldfreund: Born: 1876, 29 Jan - Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany | Died: 1880, 7 June - Berlin, Germany | Age of Death: 4. Not known at Berlin-Weißensee cemetery.

    ----- Arthur Ludwig Goldfreund: Born: 1878, 7 March - Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany | Died: 1886, 28 March - Berlin, Germany | Age of Death: 8. Arthur Goldfreund is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee (burial number 4833)

    ----- Carl Georg Goldfreund: Born: 1884, 28 July - Berlin, Germany | Died: 1884, 07 August - Berlin, Germany | Age of Death: 9 days. Carl Goldfreund is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee (burial number 3302)

    ----- Emilie Lisbeth Goldfreund: Born: 1869, 15 Dec - Breslau, Dolnoslaskie, Poland | Died: 1942, 2 Feb - Berlin, Berlin, Germany | Age of Death: 73
    ---------- 1900, 6 Feb: Married August Carl Jentzsch
    ---------- 1901, 26 Feb: Birth of son - Walter Jentzsch


    ----- Paula Goldfreund: Born: 1872, 16 Oct - Brandenburg, Berlin, Germany | Died: ?.
    - Paula Goldfreund born 1872 birth certficate
    - She doesn't seem to have been buried in Berlin
    - Is not listed on https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/
    - Did she die soon after birth or was she murdered by the Nazis or did she manage to escape (with change of name)?
    - I think she may have died as a child as did her siblings Gertrude, Arthur and Carl?
    Please do contact me via my linkedin if you have information regarding Paula Goldfreund as I can not find information if she survived WWII. I feel haunted that her fate is not recorded herein.
  • Hans Goldfreund's cousins (children of Isidor Goldfreund) who were murdered in concentration camps:
    ----- Anna Else Goldfreund: Born: 1882, 10 Feb - Berlin, Germany | Deportation: 2 Mar 1943 - Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Age of Death: 61

    ---------- Ernst Berliner (Husband of Anna Else Goldfreund?): Born: 19 May 1881 - Haynau, Distrikt Liegnitz, Niederschlesien, Poland | Murdered: 30 Juni 1938 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany | Age of Death: 57
  • Possible SURVIVORS ? of Hans Goldfreund's cousins (children and grandchildren of Isidor Goldfreund)

    Ernst Goldfreund: Born: 1879, 27 Sep - Berlin, Germany | Died: 1956, 30 Jan - Düsseldorf, Germany | Age: 77
    ----- 1916, 3 March, Berlin, Germany: wrote an obituary for Boelcke, Oswald 1891-1916 (a German flying ace of WW1 who was a German air combat hero) for the Vossische Zeitung, Berlin. For copyright reasons, this document cannot be viewed online. However, the documents can be made available for scientific use in the ZBW premises. Source: Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
    ----- 1920: Resident of Leipzig, Germany, Anger Crottendorf, Cichorinsstr. 2a. Occupation: Zeitschriften Bertr. (writer ? for Magazines / Newspapers)
    ----- 1933: Ernst Goldfreund took over / became provisional management of ?, who had been working before 1933, at The "Leipziger Tagesblatt" and was a representative of the Ullstein Verlag (Publisher's), Leipzig. Source: Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
    ----- ?: President of Leipzig Community. Source: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, New York
    ----- 1954?: Fled to West Germany, Düsseldorf. Source: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, New York and Leipziger Juden und die DDR: Eine Existenzerfahrung im Kalten Krieg

    Walter Jentzsch: Born: 1901, 26 Feb - Berlin, Germany | Died: 1970, March - Hove, England | Age: 69
    ----- Parents: Emilie Lisbeth Goldfreund (1869 - 1942 - Isidor Goldfreund's daughter) and August Carl Jentzsch (1867 - 1939)
    ----- 1935: Married Vera Dorothea Sussmann PhD (1904, Berlin - 1973, Brighton, UK)
    ----- 1940, 21 June: UK, World War II Alien Internee (escaped to UK with his wife)
 

Hans Goldfreund's Cousins

From His Tante Emilie Goldfreund (Abt 1848 - 1911, Berlin)

Emilie Goldfreund Family Tree

Emilie Goldfreund Family Tree

  • Emilie Goldfreund (Sister of Adolf Goldfreund, Hans' Father):
    ----- Emilie Goldfreund (Sister of Adolf Goldfreund, Hans' Father): Abt 1848, Austria? - 22 Jul 1911 (Berlin) | Age: 63

    ----- Husband - Isidor Hersch: Abt 1845, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia - 1930, 14 March, Berlin Germany | Age: 85
    -------------- Occupation: ?
  • Hans Goldfreund's cousins (children of Emilie Goldfreund), born in Berlin who died through illness?
    ----- Adolf Hersch: Born: 1873, 13 Nov | Died: 1888, 31 Jan | Age: 13

    ----- Jaeques Hersch: Born: 1877, 23 Jan | Died: 1889, 20 Nov | Age: 12

    ----- Joseph Hersch: Born: 1878, 16 Sept | Died: 1878, 4 Oct | Age: less than month old :(

  • Possible SURVIVORS of Hans Goldfreund's cousins (children of Emilie Goldfreund)?

    Elisbeth Hersch: Born: 1869, 5 April, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia | Died: 1951, April, Hampstead, London, England | Age: 82
    ----- 1897, 18 Feb - marries Heÿmann Raczkowskÿ (Born: abt. 1870 Labiau, East Prussia | Died: 1923, 16 Oct Berlin, Germany
    -------------- Occupation: Businessman
    ----- 1939, 18 Dec - Living in UK (Hampstead, London?): Female Enemy Alien - exemption From Internment - refugee
    ----- Son: Kurt Raczkowsky: Born: 1898, 10 Nov, Berlin, Germany | Died: 1970, 29 Jan, Hollywood, Broward, Florida, USA
    -------------- Occupation: Motor Mechanic / Driver
    -------------- 1930 - 1938 - resident in Berlin, Germany
    -------------- 1930 - 1938 - Marries Lilly [Surname]? Born: 1905, 16 May, Briesen, Brandenburg, Germany | Died: 1983, 29 Jan, Hollywood, Broward, Florida, USA
    -------------- 1938, 5 March - arrives in Liverpool
    -------------- 1939, October 16 - living (with Lilly) in Hampstead London (with his Mother?)
    -------------- 1947, 28 Dec - (with Lilly) departs from Southampton, UK and arrives in New York, USA
    -------------- 1951 - Resident in Michigan


    Max Hersch: Born: 1875, 27 Dec, Berlin, Germany | Died: 1948, 8 June, Berlin, Germany | Age: 72
    ----- 1915 - 1919 - living in Berlin, Germany
    ----- 1918, 12 March - marriage to Antonie Helene Margarethe Maerdel. Born: 1879, 27 Feb, Berlin, Germany | Died: Bef. 1948?
    ----- Occupation: Auskunftei u Detektivinst. > Businessman / Fashion salon with his wife.
    ----- 1948 - residing Linienstrasse 53, Berlin, Germany (with his daughter, Gerda)
    ----- Daughter: Gerda Hersch: Born: Abt 1900, Berlin, Germany | Died: After 1948
    -------------- Occupation: Laboratory assistant
    -------------- 1948 - residing Linienstrasse 53, Berlin, Germany (with her father Max)
 

Hans Goldfreund's Cousins

From His Mother Emma Goldfreund nee Jablonsky (Abt 1854 - 1915, Berlin)

Emma Goldfreund nee Jablonsky Family Tree

Emma Goldfreund nee Jablonsky Family Tree

Emma Goldfreund nee Jablonsky (Mother of Hans Goldfreund) Siblings:
  • Sister Hulda Jablonski (1850, Berlin - 1910 Berlin)
    ----- Husband - Paul Bertram: 1851, Berlin - 1926, Berlin | Age: 74
    ----- Son: Georg Bertram: Born: 1882, Berlin | Died: 1941, NYC, USA. Georg Bertram was a German pianist and teacher. He studied piano with Ernst Jedliczka, conducting with Hans Pfitzner and composition with Philipp Rüfer. From 1903 to 1920 he taught piano at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin.
    ----- Daughter: Käthe Bertram: Born: 1887, Berlin | Died: Aft. 1945, NYC, USA

    In 1936 Georg and Käthe travelled from Rotterdam, Netherlands to America - she was a singer and he a pianist - going there for a concert? The following year both children sailed to Cuba and arrived in NYC, USA and saught "naturalisation" i.e. the process by which an alien becomes an American. Until Georg's untimely death in 1941 they lived together at 407 Central Park West, NYC. Sadly his sister died four years later. Georg Bertram performing Chopin - Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64 No.1.
  • Sister Berta Jablonsky (1853 - 1918, Berlin)
    ----- Husband - Elias Bley: 1851, Berlin - 1935, Berlin | Age: 84
    ----- Daughter: Ernestine Bley: Born: 1879 | Died: 1881, Berlin | Age: 2

    ----- Son: Judge Hermann Bley: Born: 1878 | Died: Abt. 1941 Minsk Ghetto, Minsk, Belorussia (HOLOCAUST Victim) | Age: 63
    -------------- Wife of Judge Hermann Bley: Dorothea Ludwig Born: 1878 | Died: Abt. 1941 Minsk Ghetto, Minsk, Belorussia (HOLOCAUST Victim) | Age: 53
    -------------- Son of Judge Hermann Bley: Alfred Bley Born: 1923 | Died: Abt. 1941 Minsk Ghetto, Minsk, Belorussia (HOLOCAUST Victim) | Age: 18

    There are letters in the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Archives from Alfred's Unkle Dr Bruno Bley, that record Dr Bruno Bley's desperate attempt to help Alfred immigrate to England. Dated December 31, 1938 a letter from Dr. Bruno Bley to Lillie Herman-Philipp, guarantees the sum of £3 per month for 3 years in return for the care of his nephew, Alfred Bley. Lillie Herman-Philipp was a lovely Jewish woman living in London, who attempted to help Jews who were trying to leave Germany for England before the start of World War II. Most of the requests for help she received were from parents and other relatives trying to save children. 10 Jan 1939 - there is a letter from Grete Exiner of the Movement For The Care Of Children from Germany (British Inter-Aid Committee), London, to Lillie Herman-Philipp indicating that Bruno Bley can provide for costs of his nephew Alfred. Dr. Bruno Bley's attempts to save Alfred Bley were tragically unsuccesful. On 14 November 1941 the family were transported, on Train Da 54 from the City of Berlin (they were living Lessingstr. 21, Tiergarten), Germany to Minsk Ghetto, Belorussia (USSR). There is no record of their death date.

    ----- Son: Dr Bruno Bley: Born: 1894 | Died: 1975, Hampstead, London, England | Age: 80
    -------------- Wife of Dr Bruno Bley: Gertrud Hirsch Born: 1899 | Died: 1985, Camden, London, England | Age: 86
    -------------- Son of Dr Bruno Bley: Walter Bley Born: 1923 | Died: 2006 Hemel Hempstead, England | Age: 83

    Dr Bruno Bley tried very hard to save his nephew's, Alfred Bley, life but was tragically unsuccesful. With his wife and young son he seems to have managed to escape to Tel Aviv, Israel in circa 1939. At some stage they moved to London (30 Nov 1939 - his wife Gertrud Brey was registered as a refugee and residing 40 Belsize Park Gardens), England where he died.
 

Key Historical Dates of The Holocaust

Hans Goldfreund Deportation card

Source: Ushmm.org.

As soon as Hitler came to power he began the systematic persecution of Jews. The Nazis' established 2,000 anti-Jewish laws between 1933-1945. These were introduced slowly at first, so that the civilian population would not realise the extent of the Nazi party's anti-Semitism. See other examples of Anti-Semitic Legislation.

  • 1933, 30 January - Adolf Hitler: was appointed Chancellor of Germany.
  • 1933, March 22 - Dachau (Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany): Nazi officials established the first concentration camp, Dachau, which was intended for political prisoners.
  • 1933, April 1 - Anti-Jewish Boycott: the Nazi leadership staged an economic boycott targeting Jewish-owned businesses and the offices of Jewish professionals.
  • 1935, 15 September - The Nuremberg Laws (Nürnberger Gesetze): were antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany. The two laws were:
    ----- The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour - forbadding marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans and the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households.
    ----- The Reich Citizenship Law - which declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to be Reich citizens. The remainder were classed as state subjects without any citizenship rights.
  • 1938, 17 Aug - "Israel" / "Sara" additional name for Jews: a decree in Nazi Germany required Jews bearing first names of "non-Jewish" origin to adopt an additional name: "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women. This was displayed on all their birth certificates.
  • 1938, 9 - 10 November: “Kristallnacht” “Night of Broken Glass”: Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed circa 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps.
  • 1939, October: Aktion T4: Adolf Hitler signed a "Euthanasia Note", backdated to 1 September 1939, which authorised his physician Karl Brandt and Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler to implement a programme to select patients "deemed incurably sick" (disabled) and administer them a "mercy death" (Gnadentod).
  • 1939, 11 September: German invasion of Poland. The UK and France declared war on Germany on the 13, 1939.
  • 1939, 10 December?: Lodz Ghetto, Poland: The first known record of Lódz Ghetto? The liquidation of the ghetto began on June 23, 1944.
  • 1940, April: Construction began Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland
  • 1941, September 1: Yellow Star of David: the Reich Minister of the Interior decreed that Jews over the age of 6, in the Greater German Reich, must wear a yellow Star of David on their outer clothing in public, at all times.
  • 1941, 7th December: Chelmno (Kulmhof) Extermination Camp, Poland: the first mass killings of Jews by gas, as part of the 'Final Solution'.
  • 1942, January, Wannsee Conference (held near Berlin), The Final Solution (Endlosung der Judenfrage): The Final Solution was formulated and agreed by the Nazis. This was a plan devised for the genocide of Jews during World War II, which was not restricted to the European continent.
  • 1942, 16 May (operational): Sobibor Extermination Camp, Poland: was a Nazi German extermination camp built and operated by the SS as part of Operation Reinhard (the codename of the secretive Nazis plan to exterminate Poland's Jews in German-occupied Poland).
  • Liberation of Camps (related to this sad document):
    ----- Lodz Ghetto - January 19, 1945 by the Russian Army
    ----- Chelmno Extermination Camp - January 20, 1945 by the Russian Army
    ----- Auschwitz Concentration Camp - 27 January, 1945 by the Russian Army
    ----- Buchenwald Concentration Camp - April 11, 1945 by the American Forces
    ----- Westerbork Transit Camp - April 12, 1945 by the Canadian Forces
    ----- Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp - 15 April 1945 by the British Forces (and my daddy) with American Forces)
    ----- Mauthausen Concentration Camp - May 5, 1945 by the American Forces
  • 1945, 8 May: Nazi Germany's formal, unconditional surrender of its armed forces and the acceptance by The Allies of World War II.
 

Why Have I Created This Page for Hans Goldfreund And His Sisters?

My Mummy (Uschi Baingo) was German and born in Hamburg, 1925. She dated a lovely Jewish boyfriend, Lothar Besch and helped Lothar Besch survive WW2 in Berlin. She also helped Bubi (Joachim Bruno Nave) and his sister (Sonja Nave) survive WW2.

"Unkle" Hans

I think Mummy may have met "Unkle" Hans via her Father, Erwin Baingo, as both had roots in Silesia? But they defintely lived near each other: Hans Goldfreund at Kleiststr 31 and Mummy, 28 Belziger str - both in Schöneberg, Berlin.

Before Mummy died, unbeknown to me, she asked her half-sister to find out what happened to her Jewish "Unkle" Hans Goldfreund who she was so fond of. She felt guilty she couldn't save him and was haunted by not knowing his fate. Mummy nor Daddy (Major Albert Ward MBE MM who fought as a Scottish Officer) talked about those awful times (Daddy was there (serving with The 15th (Scottish) Reconnaissance Regiment, RAC) just after the liberation of Belsen Concentration Camp).

Stolperstein for "Unkle" Hans

Having visited Berlin in the past few years (I had lived there when I was very young, as Daddy was stationed there) I have organised a Stolperstein for Hans Goldfreund (and if I can afford it - for all his sisters). On behalf of my so missed Mummy, I took up the quest to find the information required to get Hans a Stolperstein and... found out that he had four (?) sisters. I have cried when I discovered their murders (and imagined their suffering). I have found enough information to get Hans Goldfreund a Stolpersteine in Berlin at Kleiststr 31 (his last free dwelling address), which was respectively delayed due to awful COVID-19 and then... me unexpectedly needing operations! Sadly, additional Jewish victims have been commemorated with stolpersteine at Kleiststr 31; 1941: Meyer Max Simon (deported 27.11.1941 to Riga & murdered in 30.11.41) and Betty Simon (geb. Less - sister of Julius Less? Deported 27.11.1941 to Riga & murdered in 30.11.41) and 1943: Betty Less (geb. Kamm - deported 12.1.1943 & murdered in Auschwtiz) and her husband Julius Less (deported 12.1.1943 & murdered in Auschwtiz). However, according to Yadvashem.org, Hans Goldfreund's address before deportation in June 1943 is Charlottenburg, Kantstr. 44-45 and he was a subtenant of Loewe. Stolpersteine at Kantstr. 44-45

09/11/2020 - I cried with mixed joy and sadness. Renate, my incredibly lovely Stolperstein volunteer who has helped me with the Stolperstein for Hans, emailed me with the photos below. For a commemoration of Kristallnacht, when she placed beautiful single roses (including totally unexpectedly, one for Hans Goldfreund) at the memorial of a former synagogue, in Berlin. I am so lucky to have been allocated to Renate and can't thank Renate enough for her comprehensive research and HUGE, HUGE, HUGE, warmth and sweetness.

A beautiful rose for Hans Goldfreund laid on November 9 2020 for Kristallnacht, Berlin commemoration

I so hope there are still relatives of this line of Goldfreund, alive. I am truly, very sorry if this page will upset relatives, which is not my intention. I wish only Hans Goldfreund's name and his sisters' names to be remembered, and honoured. Please do contact me via my linkedin if you have any information or photographs you would like me to add the page.

Though this page was set up to try and get a Stolperstein for Hans Goldfreund, I do miss-heart-beats for all the victims of the concentration / extermination camps, to the: Jews, disabled, Romani (Gipsies), political dissidents, gay...



Stolpersteine

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PS - The Nazis, Never Stop Despicably, Shocking :(

Nazi Eugenics - Not Just On Jews BUT On Germans Too

Nazi Eugenics - on Germans too

Slick English comedian Sue Perkins featured recently on (Series 19) BBC's of "Who Do You Think You Are"? She traced her GERMAN relatives, the Tislau's to near Marijampole, in (now) Lithuania. In 1939, Germany signed a non-aggregation pact with the Soviet Union giving Lithuania to the Soviet Union, for the Nazis' clandestine preparation for their attack on Poland. In March 1941, Sue's German descendant Tislau's repatriated to Germany with a (unwelcome) "Nazis" welcome home. To my utter surprise, repatriated Germans were placed in resettlement camps on their "Fatherland" where their papers were checked and photos taken. Moreover, repatriated Germans (to my utter contempt _ but to all) were measured by the Nazis to see how German they were! Using an Anthropometer, for measuring the human body, Sue Perkins' relatives (like other repatriated Germans and probably mixed race, non German) bodies were measured (e.g. their head shape, size of nose, distance between the eyes...)

The Nazis had devised, 4 RACIST categories based on such measurements:

  • 1. Ayran and above average
  • 2. Ayran average
  • 3. Ayran below average or of mixed race
  • 4. Unacceptable

Some of Sue Perkins' Tislau relatives (like other repatriated Germans / mixed race Germans) were categorised as not Aryan enough. Her, Albert Tislau and his family were detained in Germany. His wife's poor sister Adeline (of German descent), who was deaf/mute and with learning difficulties, was EXECUTED in 1942 as part of the Nazi eugenics policy - utterly, despicable. (Albert Tislau returned to Lithuania when The Nazis declared war on Russia but in 1944 was captured by the Russians and forced to work as an agricultural labourer for ten years before finally being repatriated to Germany).



Nazi Ayrans

Ayran: Originally, the term "Ayran" was used as linguistic category.19c European scholars used the term "Aryan" to identify the Indo-European or Indo-Germanic people who settled throughout India, Persia (Iran), and Europe thousands of years earlier and to describe the similarities between the LANGUAGES. Later, this linguistic category was reinterpreted, incorrectly, as referring to race or ethnicity. In the early twentieth century, scholars and many others continued to wrongly use the term "Aryan" as a racial grouping of peoples. For example, Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927 - British-German philosopher!), promoted the idea that Aryans were racially and culturally superior to other groups of people. Burn in hell - Adolf Hitler who took it to the despicable extreme.



Nazi Sterilisations and Euthanasia on German Citizens

From 1933 to 1945, the Nazi's carried out a campaign to "cleanse" German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to their nation's "health" (Germans, mixed raced Germans & non Germans). This campaign was based in part on ideas about public health and genetic "fitness" that had grown out of many late nineteenth century scientists and intellectuals who applied Darwinism to the problems of human society. These ideas became known as "Eugenics". Enlisting fanatical physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies. The first step in that campaign was a new law announced in July 1933 (Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses (English: Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring)) which permitted the government to mass sterilise "genetically diseased" persons German and non Germans) e.g. anyone who suffered from genetic epilepsy, blindness, deafness, severe hereditary deformity, so-called "hereditary" illnesses such as "feeble-mindedness," schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness, and, severe alcoholism. Under this Eugenics campaign, The Nazi regime carried out approximately 400,000 forced sterilisations and... over 275,000 euthanasia deaths.



Haunted

I missed a heart beat watching Sue Perkin's "Who Do You Think You Are" doc - thinking of my, so missed Mummy (Uschi Ward nee Baingo). Mummy would have scored an Ayran = 1 - Mummy was asked to and, indeed modelled in a Berlin mag - one time. Mummy, was very young and flattered and she told me she did it BUT then thought (told me) afterwards, no way did she want to be part of the Aryan / Nazis propoganda, AND, also, she was trying to help her half-Jewish boyfriend. For sure I would have scored a 3. And, my brother a, defo.. 4. It's stories like these that must be heard on TV, remembered and that people must not accept in this world of now.



Peace, Love, Kindness &... Lebewohl

In 2022, their should be no tolerance of eugenics / ethnic cleansing, racisim, any form of prejudicism...

Hans Goldfreund

Hans Goldfreund

Hans Goldfreund

Date of Birth: 23rd February 1896
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Occupation: Jeweller
Jewellery Shop: Kurfürstendamm 75, Berlin, Germany
Died: Shortly after 17 November 1943?
Place of Death: Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland
Hans Goldfreund - 1938. Last free dwelling adress known: Kleiststr 31, Berlin, Germany

Hans Goldfreund - Jeweller

Else Goldfreund

Else Goldfreund - Seamstress

Margarete Grete Goldfreund

Margarete Grete Goldfreund

Else, Erna, Grete & Paula Goldfreund, Berlin

Paula Goldfreund

Erna Goldfreund Modesalon

Erna Goldfreund - Modesalon

Uschi Ward

Uschi Ward - friend of "Unkle" Hans (and my adorable & sooooo, missed Mummy)

Paula Goldfreund, 1872 Berlin, Germany

Please do contact me via my linkedin if you have information regarding Paula Goldfreund as I can not find information if she survived WWII.

  • Paula Goldfreund: Born: 1872, 16 Oct - Brandenburg, Berlin, Germany
  • Daughter of Isidor Goldfreund and Luise Lotte Sorsky
  • Died: Where, When, Why ?. I have tried:
    • Bundesarchiv.de's Gedenkbuch & Yadvashem.org
    • Cemetries: Charlottenburg

Hugest Thanks & Hugs Too...

I started with a name and a birth date. Thank you so much to the following amazingly lovely and kind people:

  • Berlin Stolperstein Renate - the sweetest ever!
  • Ancestry.com Elke - got me going from one name and a sad murder date.
  • Stephen of jri-poland.org - who traced way back, Hans Goldfreund's relatives in Breslau and their graves!
  • Young Wilhelm - (my Milan best friend) who kindly translated Paula Goldfreund's Detention records
  • And those who have answered my emails including Dr. Wojciech Płosa, Head of Archive, The State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim

I sooooo HOPE...

One day I will be contacted by one of Hans Goldfreunds living relatives

Please do contact me via linkedin

Ps

Hans Goldfreund's stolpersteine will be soon laid at Kleiststr 31, Schöneberg, Berlin. It's been delayed because of pishy COVID and my ops.

Hans Goldfreund stolpersteine. Last free dwelling adress known: Kleiststr 31, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany