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James Isidor Pariser * 1872

Poolstraße 41 (Hamburg-Mitte, Neustadt)

HIER WOHNTE
JAMES ISIDOR
PARISER
JG. 1872
DEPORTIERT 1942
THERESIENSTADT
ERMORDET 27.10.1942

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James Isidor Pariser, born on 14 Aug. 1872 in Bad Landeck in Silesia (today Lądek-Zdrój in Poland), deported on 19 July 1942 to Theresienstadt, date of death 27 Oct. 1942

Poolstrasse 41

James Isidor Pariser was born on 14 Aug. 1872 in Bad Landeck in Silesia to a Jewish family. His siblings Richard (born on 19 Dec. 1874) and Eugenie (born in 1866) were natives of Breslau (today Wroclaw/Poland).

The father Selig/Salo Pariser was a merchant and "Restaurateur” (an archaic term for restaurant owner/innkeeper) based at Nabelgasse 2. He had married Selma Jungmann, the daughter of an innkeeper from Rawitsch (today Rawicz/Poland). The family lived at Kupferschmiedestrasse 39, at Margarethenstrasse 27, and later at Margarethenstrasse 10, where Selma Pariser passed away on 30 Dec. 1894, sometime after the death of her husband.

James Isidor Pariser is described in the Breslau directories from 1896 to 1898 as a "Confectionair,” meaning that he was active in the clothing or textiles industry and had presumably completed a commercial apprenticeship previously. Apparently, his sister had also acquired commercial skills. "Fräulein” ("Miss”) Eugenie Pariser ran a "Galanterie- Luxus- und Spielwarengeschäft” (Galanterie: outdated German term for fashion accessories), with store premises based at Nikolaistrasse 38/39 in 1896, having taken over the business from her mother after her death. The siblings continued to live at Margaretenstrasse 10. Eugenie Pariser married in Breslau the merchant Selmann Krakinowski, who first took over power of attorney and then the business itself. The Krakinowski couple later moved to Berlin. James Isidor Pariser was still residing in Breslau in 1900, as the owner of "Schlesinger und Co. Nachfgr. [Succr.] J. Pariser” located at Tauentzienstrasse 78.

Seven years later, he had followed the Krakonowski family to Berlin. It is not known how he earned his living there. At the address of Wöhlertstrasse 20, he gave notice of the death of his two-year-old nephew Willi Krakinowski from Wilhelmshavener Strasse 59 to the relevant registry office. However, James Isidor Pariser is not listed in the Berlin directories, so presumably he resided as a subtenant.

On 21 Nov. 1919, he moved from Berlin to Forchheim in Franconia, where he married Betty Frank (born on 15 Apr. 1876), the daughter of the owner of the local department store and shoe store, Haimann Frank. The newly married couple lived in their parents’ house at Hauptstrasse 13. The marriage of James Isidor and Betty Pariser remained childless. Haimann Frank and his wife Babette died in 1922, and James Isidor Pariser continued to run the shoe business even when his wife Betty died on 7 Oct. 1932. However, after the April boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, he saw no future in Forchheim and left for Hamburg on 30 Mar. 1935.

There he lived at Griesstrasse 20 in the Hamm quarter. He was already of retirement age when, one week after his arrival in the city, he married the widow Bella Sonnenschein, née Mendel (born on 5 July 1882 in Hamburg), on 6 Apr. 1935. (Her first husband Ernest Sonnenschein had died in Hamburg on 26 Jan. 1928.) The marriage did not last, however, ending in divorce on 18 Jan. 1936.

As in Berlin, James Isidor Pariser was not listed in the Hamburg directories. According to his Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer) file card of the Jewish Community, he eventually lived at Wexstrasse 38 with the couple Frieda and Julius Prag (see www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de) and at Poolstrasse 41 with the merchant Hermann Salomon, who lived in a "mixed marriage” ("Mischehe”). Then he was sent to the Nordheim-Stift retirement home of the Jewish Community at Schlachterstrasse 40/42, a so-called "Jews’ house” ("Judenhaus”).

There he received his deportation order for 19 July 1942 to the ghetto in Theresienstadt. Already on 27 Oct. 1942, James Isidor Pariser died there, according to the death notice of the Jewish doctors in the ghetto, of cardiac paralysis after a prostate condition.

His divorced wife Bella Pariser had fled to Sweden in Mar. 1939, where she died "by suicide” on 4 Dec. 1940. She is commemorated by a Stolperstein at Jungfrauenthal 6. (For her brother Willy Mendel, a Stolperstein was laid at Rutschbahn 7, see www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de).

Sister Eugenie Krakinowski died on 26 Nov. 1923 in Berlin. No details could be established about the fate of brother Richard Pariser.

Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: August 2021
© Susanne Rosendahl

Quellen: 1; 3; StaH 332-5 Standesämter 3215 u 2030/1882 (Geburtsregister Bela Mendel); StaH 314-15_FVg 3968 (Pariser, Bella); StaH 332-5 Standesämter 940 u 46/1928 (Sterberegister Ernest Sonnenschein); StaH 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinde Nr. 992 e 2 Band 5; ancestry.de (Sterberegister von Selma Pariser am 30.12.1894 in Breslau, Zugriff 1.11.2018); ancestry.de (Geburtsregister von Richard Pariser am 19.12.1874 in Breslau, Zugriff 5.12.2020); ancestry.de (Sterberegister von Eugenie Krakinowski am 26.11.1923 in Berlin, Zugriff 8.2.2021); ancestry.de (Sterberegister von Willi Krakinowski am 12.4.1907 in Berlin, Zugriff 9.2.2021); Adressbücher der Stadt Breslau 1895; Adressbücher von Berlin; Rolf Kilian Kiessling, Juden in Forchheim. 300 Jahre jüdisches Leben in einer kleinen fränkischen Stadt, Forchheim 2004, S. 124.
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