List of stumbling blocks in Berlin-Waidmannslust
The list of stumbling blocks in Berlin-Waidmannslust contains the stumbling blocks in the Berlin district of Waidmannslust in the Reinickendorf district , which remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide under National Socialism. The columns in the table are self-explanatory. The table covers a total of six stumbling blocks and can be partially sorted; the basic sorting is done alphabetically according to the family name.
image | Surname | Location | Laying date | Life | |
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Else Arian | Gutachstrasse 14 | location | March 2010 | ||
Siegfried Arian | Gutachstrasse 14 | location | March 2010 | ||
Isidor Balschowski | Nimrodstrasse 43 | location | March 2010 | Isidor Balschowski was born on June 22, 1886 in Pötschkehmen . In Berlin he last lived at Nimrodstrasse 92, which has been number 43 since the house numbers were reorganized in 1939. Before he lived at Blankenfelder Strasse 7 in Berlin-French Buchholz . He was already planning his escape when he was arrested on the night of May 28, 1942. His arrest followed as part of a "special action" in response to the arson attack by the resistance group around Herbert Baum on the propaganda exhibition The Soviet Paradise . Balschowski was murdered there immediately after being deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . | |
Arthur Moritz Cohn | Waidmannsluster Damm 119 | Aug 8, 2014 | Arthur Moritz Cohn was born on July 8, 1894 to Leopold and Harriet Cohn. After graduating from Humboldt-Gymnasium in Berlin-Tegel , he studied in Göttingen and Berlin. He was a soldier in the First World War and passed his teaching examination in 1921. In 1919 his daughter Irene was born; the mother died and Cohn later had the illegitimate child declared legitimate . In 1926 he was appointed to the sixth secondary school in Berlin-Wedding . In 1933 he was given leave of absence on April 1st and retired on September 15th due to the Civil Service Act . In 1937 he married Meta Gutmann, a teacher in the Jewish community. He sold his parents' house on Waidmannstrasse and moved to live with her in Berlin-Charlottenburg . He was arrested during the Reichspogromnacht , interned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and released after six weeks. In August 1940 he and his wife were forced to join an illegal transport to Palestine: Via Vienna we went to Pressburg , from there by ship down the Danube to the Black Sea. There they boarded the Pacific that brought them to Palestine. However, the British Mandate Government did not let them ashore, but had to board the MS Patria , which was to deport them with hundreds of other refugees to Mauritius . The Jewish resistance group Hagana wanted to prevent this and make the ship unseaworthy with explosives. However, they used too much explosives, which caused the entire ship to explode, killing 270 people, including Arthur Cohn. His wife was brought ashore with the other survivors; she died in Tel Aviv in 1984 . His daughter emigrated to Paraguay and later lived in England and Berlin. | ||
Albert Liebert | Dianastrasse 40 | Sep 24 2016 | |||
Gertrud Liebert | Dianastrasse 40 | Sep 24 2016 |
Web links
Commons : Stolpersteine in Berlin-Waidmannslust - Collection of images
Individual evidence
- ^ Jewish fates in the district. Stumbling blocks financed by donations commemorate victims of the Nazi dictatorship . In: Berliner Woche , local edition Reinickendorf-Nordwest . Berliner Wochenblatt, March 31, 2010, p. 9 ( berliner-woche.de ( Memento from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 8.2 MB ; accessed on January 21, 2013]). Jewish fates in the district. Stumbling blocks financed by donations remind of victims of the Nazi dictatorship ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stolpersteininitaiative Reinickendorf: The life path of Arthur Cohn. In: bbz 11/2019, p. 30. [Journal of the Berliner Landesverband der GEW]