Gerhard Goldschlag

Gerhard Moritz Adolf Goldschlag (born February 15, 1889 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ; died around October 3, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German conductor , composer and journalist and a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Goldschlag was the son of the Jewish lawyer Selig Goldschlag and his wife Jenny geb. Ellenburg, he was born in his parents' apartment at 58 Kochstrasse .

Between 1913 and 1920 he studied composition in Berlin at the Royal Academic University and then worked as a composer, conductor and journalist without making a particular career. Some of his compositions were performed in concerts by the Jewish Cultural Association .

Arrested during the Second World War, the Jewish artist was used as a forced laborer until 1943. His deportation and that of his wife Tony Goldschlag , a singer, were postponed for a long time because their daughter Stella Goldschlag worked as a "grabber" for the Gestapo and helped track down so-called "U-Boats" (Jews who went underground in Berlin during the war) in order to then hand them over and thus expose them to their deportation and murder. In the end, Stella's protection didn't help either, and Gerhard and Tony Goldschlag were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on February 23, 1944 by various transports . A good seven months later, they were both deported to Auschwitz. Gerhard and Tony Goldschlag were presumably gassed there immediately after their arrival on October 3, 1944.

Web links

• “Otherwise you will come to Auschwitz” . Report in Der Spiegel , issue 43/1992, from October 19, 1992
• Gerhard Goldschlag on holocaust.cz
• Gerhard Goldschlag on ushmm.org
• Gerhard Goldschlag in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)

literature

• Herbert Gerigk and Theophil Stengel : Lexicon of Jews in Music . Berlin 1940, p. 88 (anti-Semitic Nazi document, brief mention)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register StA Berlin II No. 170/1889 .