Esther Levy
* 1930
HIER WOHNTE
ESTHER LEVY
JG. 1930
DEPORTIERT 1941
MINSK
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Rappstraße 16
Related Stolpersteine in Rappstraße 16: Ida Rosenberg | Lydia Hoffmann | Hermann Hoffmann | Sohn von Hermann und Lydia Hoffmann | Ottilie Robertsohn | Max Fleischhauer | Julius Bähr
Rappstraße 16
Esther Levy, born 02/18/1930, deported to Minsk on 11/08/1941
The Stumbling Stone was laid for Esther Levy, who, aged 11, was deported together with her parents. Her father Emil Levy had obviously adopted the girl when he married Frieda in January, 1934. A common son of the couple, who was to be named “Adolf”, died immediately after birth. Esther and her mother were Polish citizens.
The family suffered financial distress and depended on welfare payments, because Emil Levy, a butcher by trade, had lost his job. In 1939/40 he was assigned to compulsory labor, for which he was paid only 30 RM per week.
The frequent changes of address within the Grindel quarter and their registration as subtenants indicate how the family struggled to make their living. Rappstrasse 16 was the Levys’ last residence in Hamburg. All three members of the family met their death in or around Minsk on unknown dates or were shot or suffocated in gas trucks on May 8th, 1943 or at the liquidation of the ghetto on September 14th, 1943.
Translated by Peter Hubschmid
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.