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Ella Rosenblum * 1882

Durchschnitt 8 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)

HIER WOHNTE
ELLA ROSENBLUM
JG. 1882
EINGEWIESEN 1936
HEILANSTALT LANGENHORN
"VERLEGT" 23.9.1940
BRANDENBURG
ERMORDET 23.9.1940
"AKTION T4"

further stumbling stones in Durchschnitt 8:
Johanna Aron, Antoinette Aron, Bella Aron, Hannelore Baum, Emil Josephi, Frieda Josephi, Norbert Pappenheim, Henriette Rosenblum, Betty Rosenblum

Ella Esther Rosenblum, born on 14 Sept. 1882 in Hamburg, murdered on 23 Sept. 1940 in the Brandenburg/Havel euthanasia killing center

Betty Rosenblum, born on 1. Aug. 1878 in Salzwedel, deported on 6.12.1941 to Riga, murdered

Henriette Rosenblum, born on 22. May 1884 in Hamburg, deported on 6. Dec. 1941 to Riga, murdered

Stolperstein in Hamburg-Rotherbaum, at Durchschnitt 8

The merchant Ascher Rosenblum, born on 7 July 1849, and his wife Johanna, née Simon, born on 28 Sept. 1842, both of the Jewish faith, had their first children in Ascher’s native town of Salzwedel: Max, born on 16 June 1875; Moritz, born on 14 Sept. 1876; and Betti, born on 1 Aug. 1878, whose name was later written Betty, in deviation from the birth register entry.

The couple settled in Hamburg shortly before the birth of their fourth child. Ella Esther was born on 14 Sept. 1882 at Admiralitätsstrasse 30 in Hamburg-Neustadt. The youngest child, Henriette, was born on 22 May 1884 at Wilhelminenstrasse 35 in the St. Pauli quarter.

Ascher Rosenblum went by the first name of Adolf by then. From 1884 onward, he operated a warehouse for cart grease; it was not possible to establish any further business activities. The family moved several times until they settled in May 1899 at Schulterblatt 78 in the Sternschanze quarter. There, Ascher and Johanna Rosenblum passed away in 1915 and 1916, respectively. Betty, Ella Esther, and Henriette, who had lived with their parents until the end, rented an apartment together at Durchschnitt 8 in the Rotherbaum quarter. Ella Esther working as a cashier and Henriette as tailor contributed to the household income. Whether Betty was employed and had an income is not known. The brothers Max and Moritz had already left the parents’ home earlier.

Ella Esther must have shown symptoms of illness during the 1920s, which led to her admission to the Friedrichsberg State Hospital (Staatskrankenanstalt Friedrichsberg) from 17 Sept. 1928 to 30 Jan. 1929. We do not know whether she was able to return home afterward. On 18 Apr. 1936, she was transferred to the Hamburg-Langenhorn State Hospital (Staatskrankenanstalt Hamburg-Langenhorn), remaining there until 1940.

In the spring/summer of 1940, the "euthanasia” headquarters in Berlin, located at Tiergartenstrasse 4, planned a special operation aimed against Jews in public and private sanatoriums and nursing homes. It had the Jewish persons living in the institutions registered and moved together in what were officially so-called collection institutions. The Hamburg-Langenhorn "sanatorium and nursing home” ("Heil- und Pflegeanstalt” Hamburg-Langenhorn) was designated the North German collection institution. All institutions in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Mecklenburg were ordered to move the Jews living in their facilities there by 18 Sept. 1940.

Ella Esther Rosenblum was one of the patients who already lived in the Hamburg-Langenhorn "sanatorium and nursing home” before the cut-off date. On 23 Sept. 1940, she was loaded on to a train at the Ochsenzoll freight station with a further 135 patients from North German institutions and transported to Brandenburg/Havel. On the same day, the patients were killed with carbon monoxide in the part of the former penitentiary that had been converted into a gas-killing facility. Only Ilse Herta Zachmann escaped this fate at first (see corresponding entry).

On the birth register entry of Ella Esther Rosenblum, it was noted that the records office Chelm II (General Government [in Poland]) registered her death under number 447/1941. Those murdered in Brandenburg, however, were never in Chelm (Polish) or Cholm (German), a town east of Lublin. The former Polish sanatorium there no longer existed after SS units had murdered almost all patients on 12 Jan. 1940. Also, there was no German records office in Chelm. Its fabrication and the use of postdated dates of death served to disguise the killing operation and at the same time enabled the authorities to claim higher care expenses for periods extended accordingly.

Ella Esther Rosenblum’s siblings were also murdered in the Holocaust: Max Rosenblum had married Jenny Jacob, born on 27 Aug. 1874, in Bühl (Baden). The couple had a son, Erich, born on 9 Dec. 1913. The family resided at Grindelhof 9 in the Rotherbaum quarter. Max and Jenny Rosenblum were deported to Theresienstadt on 19 July 1942, deported to Treblinka on 21 Sept. 1942, and murdered there.

Their son Erich Rosenblum had completed an apprenticeship as an accountant at a Hamburg business school. He was detained in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on 15 Dec. 1938. After his release, he fled to the Netherlands. Two addresses are known from Amsterdam: N. Kerkstraat 107 and Stadionweg 129c. He also spent some time in the "Werkdorp Nieuwesluis” in the Dutch town of Wieringermeer. Erich Rosenblum was interned in Westerbork on 26 May 1943 and spent a relatively long time there, since as an accountant he was useful for the camp administration. He was deported to Auschwitz on 11 Feb. 1944 and murdered there.

Moritz Rosenblum had lived with his sisters at Durchschnitt 8 at times. He left Hamburg in 1924 and headed for Chemnitz and Stuttgart. He probably got married during his absence from Hamburg. But we do not know to whom or when. On his 1933 Jewish religious tax (Kultussteuer) file card, it was only noted that his wife had passed away.

However, there is no evidence of this in the Hamburg death registers. It is possible that Moritz Rosenblum had already become a widower before his return to Hamburg in 1933. Completely blind and destitute, he subsequently lived as a subtenant at various addresses, including Bockhorst 54 in Iserbrook, eventually at Grindelberg 80 with Rosenberg, before being forced to move to Beneckestrasse 6, a "Jews’ house” ("Judenhaus”), on 5 Mar. 1942. Moritz Rosenblum was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto on 15 July 1942 and perished there on 2 Mar. 1944.

Henriette and Betty Rosenblum lived completely destitute at Durchschnitt 8 when they received the deportation order. On 6 Dec. 1941, both were deported together with 751 other women, children, and men to Riga, where they perished.

Their home furnishings and other belongings were auctioned off in the court bailiff’s halls of the bailiff’s office at Drehbahn 36. The Hamburg treasurer’s office with the Chief Finance Administrator (Oberfinanzkasse) confiscated the proceeds from the auction amounting to 356.90 RM (reichsmark).

For Max, Jenny, and Erich Rosenblum are to be laid in Hamburg-Rotherbaum at Grindelhof 9. For Moritz Rosenblum, there is a Stolperstein in Iserbrook at Bockhorst 52; his actual address was Bockhorst 54.

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

Stand: March 2020
© Ingo Wille

Quellen: 1; 3; 4; 5; 9; AB; StaH 133-1 III Staatsarchiv III, 3171-2/4 U.A. 4, Liste psychisch kranker jüdischer Patientinnen und Patienten der psychiatrischen Anstalt Langenhorn, die aufgrund nationalsozialistischer "Euthanasie"-Maßnahmen ermordet wurden, zusammengestellt von Peter von Rönn, Hamburg (Projektgruppe zur Erforschung des Schicksals psychisch Kranker in Langenhorn); 214-1 Gerichtsvollzieherwesen 592 Henriette und Betti Rosenblum; 332-5 726 Sterberegister Nr. 936/1915 Ascher Rosenblum, 749 Sterberegister Nr. 753/1916 Johanna Rosenblum, 2032 Geburtsregister Nr. 4437/1882 Ella Esther Rosenblum, 2078 Geburtsregister Nr. 2498/1884 Henriette Rosenblum; 332-8 Meldewesen K 6892; 352-8/7 Staatskrankenanstalt Langenhorn Abl. 1/1995 Aufnahme-/Abgangsbuch Langenhorn 26.8.1939 bis 27.1.1941; 522-1 Jüdische Gemeinden 390 Wählerliste 1930, 922 e 2 Band 3 und 4 Deportationslisten; UKE/IGEM, Archiv, Patienten-Karteikarte Ella Rosenblum der Staatskrankenanstalt Friedrichsberg; Stadtarchiv Bühl/Baden, Geburtsregister Nr. 75/1874 Jenny Jacob; Stadtarchiv Salzwedel, Geburtsregister Nr. 1992/1849 Ascher Rosenblum, Geburtsregister Nr. 103/1875 Max Rosenblum, Geburtsregister Nr. 153/1878 Betti Rosenblum, Geburtsregister Nr. 193/1876 Moritz Rosenblum. Stadt Bühl (Hrsg.), Jüdisches Familienbuch Bühl 1810–1945, Bühl 2014, S. 109.
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