Martin Joseph

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Martin Joseph (born July 25, 1879 in Filehne , Posen ; † 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a German rabbi in Berlin, Dr. phil. During the First World War he looked after the Jews among the Russian prisoners of war in the camps near Berlin. Later he was a civil servant as a prison chaplain. He emigrated to the Netherlands, where he was imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp from May 26, 1943 . On September 14, 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was presumably gassed immediately upon arrival.

literature

  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century . Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
  • Esriel Hildesheimer , Mordechai Eliav: The Berlin Rabbinical Seminar 1873-1938. Its founding history - its students . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938485-46-0 , p. 149.
personal data
SURNAME Joseph, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Filehne , poses
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp