Goldschmidt Arthur – Gedenkbuch

Goldschmidt, Arthur

Geburtsdatum:: 17.02.1900
Geburtsort:: Scherfede

Beruf:: Vertreter

Wohnorte:: Merowingerstraße 64, Wielandstraße 44

Todesdatum:: nach 1941
Todesort:: Ghetto Minsk

Arthur Goldschmidt wurde am 17. Februar 1900 in Scherfede bei Warburg geboren. Mit seinen Eltern Eduard und Thekla Goldschmidt, geborene Rosenberg, wohnte er in den 1930er Jahren in Düsseldorf in der Merowinger Straße 64, zuvor hatte er in der Wielandstraße 44 gelebt.

Im April 1938 inserierten seine Eltern, dass Eduard Goldschmidt am 29. April 1938 seiner 75. Geburtstag feiern würde. Im gleichen Jahr, am 30. November 1938, verstarb Eduard Goldschmidt und wurde auf dem Jüdischen Friedhof an der Ulmenstraße begraben.

Arthur Goldschmidt blieb mit seiner Mutter in der Merowinger Straße 64 wohnen. Hier wohnte auch seine Schwester Hedwig Schay-Hesse, geborene Goldschmidt (geboren 1898 in Scherfede), bevor sie 1940 in die Schweiz emigrierte.

Arthur Goldschmidt arbeitete in Düsseldorf als Handlungsgehilfe und Vertreter.

Im Oktober 1941 heiratete Arthur Goldschmidt die zehn Jahre jüngere Else Kahn. Sie stammte aus der Eifel. Dort war sie am 4. Mai 1910 im kleinen Ort Kennfus im Kreis Cochem geboren worden. Seine Schwiegereltern, Raphael und Amalie Kahn, geborene Mayer, hatten noch vier weitere Kinder.

Elses Schwester Klara zog als Hausangestellte nach Trier, seine Frau Else 1941 in gleicher Funktion nach Düsseldorf. Sie hatte vor der Hochzeit zunächst in der Kreuzstraße 58 und ab Juni 1941 im Haus Talstraße 3 und ab dem 3. September 1941 schließlich in der Erasmusstraße 18 gewohnt. Nach der Hochzeit zog seine Frau in seine Wohnung in der Merowinger Straße 64.

Alle drei wurden am 10. November 1941 in das Ghetto von Minsk deportiert und haben nicht überlebt.

Autorin: Hildegard Jakobs, Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf

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Teil der Deportationsliste ins Ghetto Minsk am 9. November 1941 (Sammlung Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf)

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Introduction

Presented by the City of Düsseldorf, this digital memorial book commemorates the Jews who were murdered during the Nazi. The City’s Memorial and Education Centre has been researching victims’ life stories since its foundation in 1987, collecting biographical data, documents, letters and photographs. Using databases whose origins can be traced back to the 1990s, together with the collated information to be found in the archival collection, almost 3,000 individuals have been identified who were persecuted and murdered because they were Jews, or “non-Aryan” Christians.

Biographical research into the above necessitated searches – of both national and international archives – for a variety of documents such as register office certificates, registration indexes, address books and exit papers. Perpetrator resources, too, were searched, for example Gestapo files, files relating to communal matters, and tax and administrative district files. Numerous interviews with survivors and members of victims‘ families provided insights into family life, routine and otherwise, as well as of the personality of the deceased.

The cohort of those who were murdered is heterogeneous. Old and young, men and women, the young and the elderly, people from modest backgrounds or those who had built a secure living for themselves; people who, after 1933, had fled to the European continent but who were then “reeled in” by the German occupation; people whose death or murder came about in a variety of circumstances. Some died of starvation, disease or forced labour in the ghettos and concentration camps to which they had been deported, others were murdered in extermination camps. And there were also those who, out of despair, committed suicide or were murdered before the outbreak of war whilst still at home, for example during the 1938 November Pogrom and in other violent events.

The relationship to Judaism of many of those who died was very individual. The breadth and depth of the spectrum was such that they ranged from the deeply pious and orthodox to those of a more liberal or conservative persuasion and, at the other end of the scale, to atheists. All were persecuted as “Jews” by reason of their ancestry, whether they were baptised Christians, having previously been Jews, or had become Jews only in the course of Nazi “investigations”, despite never having had a Jewish identity. Nazi ideology decreed that the decisive factor was not individual identity but “ancestry”, “blood relationship” and “racial hygiene”. Despite all their differences, what all these people had in common was that they came from Düsseldorf, had been born there or had lived there for many years.

Scientific research can access genealogical connections by availing itself of the online compilation of names, dates and biographies; but in addition, by creating connections with their own personal research, survivors and their descendants the world over can also search for their murdered families.

The work on an online memorial book is never done. The intention is to add more dates and names. Of course the Düsseldorf Memorial and Education Centre is grateful for any leads, additions and corrections which contribute to the overall picture.

Düsseldorf, May 2022

Hildegard Jakobs
Academic Project Leader
and Deputy Director

Dr. Bastian Fleermann
Director