Moses Erwin – Gedenkbuch

Moses, Erwin

Geburtsdatum:: 06.04.1913
Geburtsort:: Düsseldorf

Beruf:: kfm. Angestellter

Wohnorte:: Graf-Adolf-Straße 41

Todesdatum:: 15.05.1942
Todesort:: Vernichtungslager Chełmno (Kulmhof)

Erwin Moses wurde am 6. April 1913 in Düsseldorf geboren. Seine Eltern Simon Moses und Rosa Moses, geborene Pisetzki, hatten am 18. April 1912 geheiratet. Erwin hatte noch eine jüngere Schwester, Anneliese (geboren 1920), sowie zwei Halbgeschwister Otto Moses und Adolf Pisetzki.

Erwin absolvierte eine Ausbildung zum kaufmännischen Angestellten und arbeitete anschließend in diesem Beruf. Er wohnte zusammen mit seinen Eltern in Düsseldorf in der Bismarckstraße 97. Am 18. Mai 1933 zogen sie in die Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 53, und seit dem 30. Dezember 1933 wohnten sie in der Graf-Adolf-Straße 41.

Am 12. September 1939 heiratete Erwin Moses Edith Sondheimer, und am 11. Januar 1941 wurde ihre Tochter Reha geboren. Einen „normalen“ Vornamen durften sie ihrem Baby nicht mehr geben, sondern mussten den Namen aus einer von den Behörden angefertigten Liste „typischer jüdischer“ Vornamen aussuchen.

Erwin Moses wurde am 27. Oktober 1941 zusammen mit seinen Eltern, seiner Familie und weiteren Verwandten von Düsseldorf in das Ghetto von Litzmannstadt/Łódź deportiert. Dort mussten sie in der Kollektivunterkunft Fischstraße 15, Zimmer 7, leben. Erwin Moses wurde am 14. Mai 1942 zusammen mit seinem Vater, seiner Ehefrau und seiner Tochter mit dem XI. Transport aus dem Ghetto von Litzmannstadt/Łódź nach Chełmno gebracht und am nächsten Tag ermordet.

Autorin: Hildegard Jakobs, Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf

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Das Dokument aus dem Ghetto zeigt, dass Erwin und Edith Moses bis zum 12. Mai 1942 ihre Lebensmittelrationen erhalten haben. Sie wurden erst mit der letzten Mai Deportation am 14. Mai 1942 deportiert und ermordet. (APL)

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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