Overview
- Caption
- Julius Hamburger poses with his pupil Siegmund Olivenstein.
- Date
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Circa 1939
- Locale
- Hamburg, [Hansestadt] Germany?
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Carl H. Rosner
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Carl H. RosnerSource Record ID: Collections: IRN 539408Second Record ID: Collections: 2016.308
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Julius Hamburger (b. 1910) was a teacher at the Talmud Torah school school in Hamburg, Germany. Hamburger later went on to teach at the Volks- und Höheren Schule für Juden but was dismissed at the end of the 1940/41 school year. Thereafter Julius was appointed as an instructor at the orphanage operated by the Hamburg Jewish community. On July 7, 1942 Julius Hamburger was deported with the remaining children and staff of the Jewish orphanage to Auschwitz where he perished.
Siegmund Olivenstein (b. 2.27.1926) was the only child of Max and Gitta (nee Grünberg) Olivenstein. Siegmund's parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants who settled in Schwerin, Germany. Max Olivenstein, a laborer, was arrested during Kristallnacht and sent to Neustrelitz. There Max was imprisoned and required to do forced labor until he was finally released on May 25th, 1939. It is possible that it was during this time that Siegmund came in to the care of the orphanage run by Hamburg Jewish community. There is no record of when the family reunited, they were, however, together again at the time of their deportation on in July 1942. On July 10, 1942 Siegmund, Max, and Gitta Olivenstein were rounded up with other Jewish residents of Schwerin and other communities in Mecklenburg and taken to the Ludwigslust transit camp. The following day they were taken to the Schwerin train station and deported on a transport of more than 1000 men, women, and children to Auschwitz. On this same train were 300 Jews from Hamburg, including the remaining staff and children of the orphanage run by the Hamburg Jewish community. Siegmund and his parents perished at Asuchwitz.
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