Hans Menkel

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Hans Menkel (born November 14, 1907 in Eitorf ; † September 30, 1942 in Auschwitz ) was a victim of the persecution of the Jews with his mother .

Life

Hans Menkel was born in the marriage of the Jewish butcher shop owner Bruno Menkel and Rola Rebekka, b. Grünebaum, born. He learned the profession of upholsterer . While his sister Marianne Grete married. Bergmann emigrated to the USA , Hans Menkel fled to Nijmegen in the Netherlands during the Nazi era in 1936, like many other Jews from Eitorfer . His mother stayed in Eitorf. Hans converted to the Catholic faith there. However, according to their race doctrine, the National Socialists did not recognize a conversion to Christianity. Because of this and because the Dutch church turned against the persecution of the Jews, converted Jews were also persecuted by the invading National Socialists. Menkel was taken to the Westerbork transit camp and on August 7, 1942 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was murdered. His mother Rola Rebecca Menkel, who had remained in Eitorf, was forcibly taken to the Much deportation camp on June 26, 1941. From there she was brought to the German-occupied Eastern Europe on June 14, 1942, where she was murdered at an unknown place and date.

Commemoration

The Catholic Church accepted Hans Menkel as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

In April 2011, Menkel was included in the directory of the martyr memorial of the St. Ursula Basilica in Cologne .

Memorial stones were laid for him and his mother in Siegstrasse near house number 28 in Eitorf .

literature

  • Helmut Moll In: Home pages of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. 78th edition, History and Antiquity Association f. Siegburg ud Rhein-Sieg-Kreis 2010.
  • Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th Century , 6th expanded and newly structured edition, Paderborn u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78080-5 , Volume I, pp. 388-392.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murdered 70 years ago in Auschwitz. ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: mobilbeta.rundschau-online.de , October 31, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mobilbeta.rundschau-online.de
  2. ↑ Stumbling Over Memory. on: stolpersteine-eitorf.de
personal data
SURNAME Menkel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German upholsterer and victim of the persecution of the Jews
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Eitorf
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1942
Place of death Auschwitz