Bertha Waldbaum
* 1892

Bertha Waldbaum, née Gottlieb, b. 5.5.1892 in Hamburg, deported 7.20.1943 from the Westerbork concentration camp (Netherlands) to the Sobibor extermination camp, murdered there on 7.23.1943
Hugo Waldbaum, b. 8.21.1892 in Bergedorf, deported 7.20.1943 from the Westerbork concentration camp (Netherlands) to the Sobibor extermination camp, murdered there on 7.23.1943

last residential address: Schmilinskystraße 39

Bertha and Hugo Waldbaum lived in the early 1930s on Schmilinskystrasse in St. Georg. Hugo Waldbaum was a businessman, a sales representative, by trade. He already emigrated to the Netherlands in 1931, possibly without his wife Bertha, at least initially. The couple’s home address there was at Archillesstraat 140 in Amsterdam. “Shoe maker” was listed as Hugo’s occupation. Yet, even this early emigration apparently could not protect the childless couple from its cruel fate. After the invasion of Holland by German troops, they were first sent to the transit camp at Westerbork, then in July 1943 to the Sobibor extermination camp in occupied Poland. Presumably, directly upon their arrival, they were murdered there.

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