Markus Georg Erich – Gedenkbuch

Markus, Georg Erich

Geburtsdatum:: 04.09.1887
Geburtsort:: Kirchplatz, Posen

Beruf:: Kaufmann

Wohnorte:: Hüttenstraße 21, Pempelforter Straße 18

Todesdatum:: 00.09.1942
Todesort:: Vernichtungslager Chełmno (Kulmhof)

Georg Markus kam am 4. September 1887 in Kirchplatz in Posen als Sohn von Benno und Pauline Markus, geborene Mannheim, zur Welt. Er heiratete am 10. Mai 1924 in Berlin die Opernsängerin Lilly Julie Pollack (geboren 1897 in Berlin). Am 19. Mai 1924 zogen sie von Berlin-Wilmersdorf nach Düsseldorf in die Hüttenstraße 21. Später waren sie auch in der Uerdinger Straße 25 und seit dem 19. September 1934 in der Pempelforter Straße 18 gemeldet. Georg Markus arbeitete als Kaufmann.

Am 27. Oktober 1941 wurde Georg Markus mit seiner Ehefrau von Düsseldorf in das Ghetto von Litzmannstadt/Łódź deportiert. Dort mussten sie mit weiteren Deportierten in das Zimmer 3 der Kollektivunterkunft Fischstraße 15 ziehen. Georg Markus konnte für sich und seine Ehefrau durch den Nachweis seines Verwundetenabzeichens aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg die Zurückstellung vom IV. Transport am 7. Mai 1942 erreichen.

Nach Auflösung der Kollektivunterkünfte Mitte Mai 1942 konnte das Ehepaar Markus am 19. Mai 1942 innerhalb des Ghettos in ein Zimmer der Wohnung 2a in der Königsberger Straße 8 ziehen. Auf der Kollektiv-Umzugsplanungsliste war auch vermerkt worden, dass Georg Markus im Unfall-Ressort arbeite und dass das Ehepaar auch eine Wohnung an der Masarska 9 (Storchengasse) hätte beziehen können. Auf der Anmeldekarte für die Königsberger Straße 8 gab Georg Markus als Beruf „Arbeiter im Metall-Ressort“ an.

Er wurde zusammen mit seiner Frau im September 1942 während der „Sperre“ aus dem Ghetto von Litzmannstadt/Łódź gebracht und in Chełmno ermordet.

Autorin: Hildegard Jakobs, Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf

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Unterschriften auf der Hochzeitsurkunde von Georg und Lilly Markus 1924 in Berlin (ancestry)

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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