Holocaust Victim

Oppenheimer, Moses

b. 22.03.1874, Gemmingen — d. 16.01.1940, KZ Buchenwald

100% documented

Personal Details

Religion Jewish

Profession Cattle dealer (stalls in Backnang)

Address (until 1935) Griesinger Weg 9, Raitelsberg, Stuttgart Family home

Address (1938) Charlottenstr. 5, Stuttgart After release from prison, before re-arrest

Persecution & Holocaust

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Events

22.03.1874

Born in Gemmingen Gemmingen

1919

Marries Maria Ruth Fuchs Stuttgart

1929

Divorce from Maria Ruth

Children classified as 'half-Jews'

Stuttgart

07.05.1935

Convicted of 'Rassenschande'

Judge: NSDAP/SA Alfred Flaxland. 3 years prison + sterilization. Imprisoned Ludwigsburg (from 13.05.1935), solitary confinement, shoe-making workshop.

Landgericht Stuttgart

08.05.1938

Released from Ludwigsburg prison Charlottenstr. 5, Stuttgart

23.07.1938

Re-arrested as 'work-shy Jew'

Arrested at Charlottenstr. 5, deported to KZ Buchenwald

KZ Buchenwald

16.01.1940

Murdered in KZ Buchenwald

Stolperstein: Griesinger Weg 9, Stuttgart

KZ Buchenwald

Notes

Denounced for relationships with 'Aryan' housekeepers 1931-1934

Memoir (Margit, 1963): 'I grew up, together with my brother and sister, in the house of my father... He did everything so that we could have a carefree youth. He loved us without limit.'

Memoir: Father arrested March 1935. Charged with Rassenschande. Margit: 'my father was not tried for offenses against the purity of the race, but for rape.' Family believes charges were fabricated.

Memoir: Imprisoned at Ludwigsburg prison. Margit visited him there at age 13 — 'the big strong man cried like a little child.'

Memoir: After release, the restitution case continued. A neighbor on Greisinger Weggs Street named Braun wanted to testify in father's favor but was threatened.

Memoir: 'Our table was always full and rich. Our clothes were great. We visited a good school.'

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