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Mailech (Majlech) Rajsfus * 1893

Eppendorfer Weg 78 (Eimsbüttel, Eimsbüttel)

HIER WOHNTE
MAILECH RAJSFUS
JG. 1893
AUSGEWIESEN 1938
ZBASZYN
???

further stumbling stones in Eppendorfer Weg 78:
Mathilde Rajsfus

Majlech Rajsfus, b. 8.15.1893 in Warka, County of Grojec (Poland, today), expelled to Zbaszyn on 10.28.1938
Mathilde Rajsfus, née Nissensohn, b. 6.19.1894 in Hamburg, expelled to Zbaszyn on 10.28.1938, deported to Riga 12 6.1941 and then to the Stutthof concentration camp on 7.19.1944

Eppendorfer Weg 78

Mathilde Rajsfus was born in Hamburg, however, was expelled with her Polish husband to Poland in 1938. She was born as Mathilde Nissensohn on 6.19.1894 (the given name was not recorded on the birth certificate until 13 July). Her parents were the Jewish printing office owner Siegmund Nissensohn and his wife Martha, née Tannenberg, who lived at that time at 76 Neuen Steinweg. In 1900 the Nissensohn Lithograph and Printing Press was, according to the directory, at Brüderstrasse 2.

In January 1928 Mathilde Nissensohn and Majlech Rajsfus were married. Mathilde, 34 years old at this time, lived with her father at Dillstrasse 15. Her husband, whose occupation is given as "engraver,” lived at Susannenstrasse 36. His occupation suggests that he worked in his father-in-law’s printing office.

Mathilde and Majlech Rajsfus were, together with approximately 1000 Hamburg Jews, deported in the so-called Poland Action to the border town Zbaszyn. Presumably Majlech Rajsfus made it into Poland, which shortly afterwards was occupied by German Troops. We know nothing further about his destiny.

Mathilde Rajsfus was apparently allowed to return to Hamburg (or did so without permission). On 6 December 1941, she was deported from Hamburg to Riga-Jungfernhof. From there, as a forced laborer, she got out of the Riga ghetto and other camps and on 19 July 1944 reached the Stutthof concentration camp, to which place the SS withdrew its Baltic area Jewish prisoners as the Red Army advanced. Here she died. We do not know when or by what means.

Mathilde Rajsfus had several siblings who were also murdered: Selma Birman (see her biographical entry), Therese Braun, for whom a commemorative stone has been placed in Altona, and a brother Arthur, who is commemorated by a stone at the Hallerplatz. Her father Siegmund Nissensohn was also deported and murdered. There is a stone for him on Dillstrasse. Her sister Paula was able to emigrate to the USA with her family.


Translator: Richard Levy
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2018
© Susanne Lohmeyer, Jonas Stier

Quellen: 5; StaH 332-5 Geburtsregister, 2344 + 2287/1894; StaH 332-5 Heiratsregister, 8823 + 13/1928; HAB II 1900; Gesche Cordes, Stolpersteine, S. 34f., 146f.