Weil Siegmund – Gedenkbuch

Weil, Siegmund

Geburtsdatum:: 16.06.1873
Geburtsort:: Ittlingen

Beruf:: Kaufmann

Wohnorte:: Karlstraße 70, Steinstraße 83

Todesdatum:: nach 1941
Todesort:: Ghetto Riga

Der Kaufmann Siegmund Weil kam am 16. Juni 1873 als Sohn von Marum Weil und seiner Frau Amelie, geborene Böttigheimer, in Ittlingen zur Welt. Siegmund Weil gründete 1914 eine Ledergroßhandlung in Düsseldorf, die er noch bis 1937 führen sollte. Die Firma hatte 1933 ihren Sitz auf der Charlottenstraße 83.

In erster Ehe war Siegmund Weil mit Frieda Eisenmann verheiratet, die am 19. März 1937 im Alter von 59 Jahren verstarb. Zu dieser Zeit wohnte Siegmund Weil auf Steinstraße 83, wo er bereits mindestens seit 1925 lebte.
Am 29. März 1938 zog er auf die Karlstraße 70, zur Untermiete bei Familie Feldberg. Ein Jahr später, am 24. März 1939, erfolgte ein weiterer Umzug, nun in die Grupellostraße 8 zur Untermiete bei Familie Cahn. Im Juni 1939 wurde gegen Siegmund Weil wegen des Verdachts der Rassenschande ermittelt, die Ermittlungen scheinen jedoch eingestellt worden zu sein. Kurze Zeit später stellte Siegmund Weil im August ein Passantrag zur Ausreise, der am 23. August 1939 bewilligt wurde. Aufgrund des Kriegsausbruchs konnte Siegmund Weil jedoch vermutlich nicht ausreisen.

Am 16. Oktober 1941 heiratete Siegmund Weil die Düsseldorferin Margarete „Grete“ Plaat, die nur kurze Zeit nach der Hochzeit am 27. Oktober 1941 von Düsseldorf aus in das Ghetto Litzmannstadt/Łódź deportiert wurde. Auf der Deportationsliste wurde sie unter ihrem Mädchennamen verzeichnet. Siegmund Weil befand sich nicht unter den Deportierten. Er wurde zwei Monate später am 11. Dezember 1941 von Düsseldorf aus in das Ghetto Riga deportiert. Sein weiterer Weg ist unbekannt. Er hat nicht überlebt. Seine Frau Grete Weil wurde im Mai 1942 auf dem Ghetto Litzmannstadt/Łódź in das Vernichtungslager Chełmno deportiert und dort ermordet.

Autorin: Frederike Krenz, Förderkreis der Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf e.V.

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Blatt der Deportationsliste von Düsseldorf ins Ghetto Riga am 11. Dezember 1941 (Arolsen Archives, ID11199073)

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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