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Regina Vasen (née Kraus) * 1879

Dimpfelweg 26 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)

1941 Riga
ermordet

Regina Vasen, née Kraus, born 10/13/1879, deported to Riga on 12/6/1941

Kentzlersdamm/footpath before Eiffestrasse 26 (then Kentzlersdamm 45)

"The couple was already informed that they were occupying a too expensive apartment in July 1932”, the welfare worker noted in 1939. It was the three-room apartment of David and Regina Vasen at Kentzlersdamm 45 that cost 48.50 RM a month.

His wife Regina, née Kraus, was born 10/13/1880 in Solingen. Both had several siblings. We do not know when they came to Hamburg and joined the Jewish Community. David Vasen was registered there for the first time in 1919.

David Vasen was a travelling salesman in wines and spirits, but had been unfit for work most of the time since 1931. Nonetheless, he felt obliged to support two of his sisters in Neuss, who were penniless. From December 7th, 1931, he received regular welfare payments plus 15.00 RM per month from the Jewish Community. Betty Kraus, a sister of Regina, lived with the Vasens. But she cared for her husband, who suffered from severe heart trouble and could not go out to work. And she considered the neighbourhood unsuitable for letting a room. The couple led a poor life. They even had to request support to have their shoes repaired or beg for second-hand clothes. In 1937, the fiduciary physician rules that David Vasen was unfit for travelling work, able to do office work at home. It is not known if he ever did that. He died on June 19th, 1939 in Hamburg. Five of his siblings perished in ghettos or extermination camps.

In July 1939, his widow Regina finally did let a room, for 20 RM a month to a retired chief inspector of the state railways. Soon after, she was forced to leave her familiar long-time home. On November 27th, 1941, the Jewish Community quartered her into the Oppenheimer-Stift in Kielortallee 22, a "Jews’ house”, from where she was deported to Riga only ten days later, on December 6th. Her further fate is unknown.

Her sister Betty was deported from Düsseldorf to the Minsk ghetto on November 21st, 1941.

The little that was left of Regina Vasen’s household and personal effects was auctioned on February 16th, 1942. It brought a gross yield of 120 RM, of which 112.50 RM went to the chest of the Chief Finance Administrator.


Translated by Peter Hubschmid
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: March 2019
© Hildegard Thevs

Quellen: 1; 4; 5; 6; StaH, 522-1, Jüdische Gemeinden, 391 Mitgliederliste 1935; 992 e 2 Deportationslisten, Band 3; BA Bln., Volkszählung 1939; AfW 131079; Jüdische Stätten in Hamburg. Hrsg. vom Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden und der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung. Hamburg 1995, Nr. 81.
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