Moses Oppenheimer

Holocaust Victim

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

Husband of Anna · 3 children

ProfessionCattle dealer (stalls in Backnang)

ReligionJewish

AddressGriesinger Weg 9, Raitelsberg, Stuttgart (until 1935)

AddressCharlottenstr. 5, Stuttgart (1938)

Family

Parents

Mina Oppenheimer1848–1913 Joseph Oppenheimer1845–1922

Spouse

Anna Kuhn1896–1989

Children

Änne Berger1919–2014 Margit Bernstein1922–2006 Josef Oppenheimer1925–2019

Siblings

Frieda Allersheimer1883–1941 Irma Fuldauer1891–1962 Julius Oppenheimer1882–1942 Klara Kaufmann1886–1942 Max Oppenheimer1880–1942 Sigmund Oppenheimer1877–1940 Simon Oppenheimer1876–1941 Zacharias Oppenheimer1890–

Persecution

ChargeRassenschande

CourtLandgericht Stuttgart

Date07.05.1935

Sentence3 years prison + forced sterilization

JudgeAlfred Flaxland (NSDAP/SA member)

KZ Buchenwald23.07.1938 — 16.01.1940

died

Re-arrested as 'work-shy Jew'

Location Trail

GemmingenBorn · 22.03.1874
StuttgartMarries Maria Ruth Fuchs · 1919
Griesinger Weg 9, Raitelsberg, StuttgartResided (until 1935) · 1935
Landgericht StuttgartConvicted of 'Rassenschande' · 07.05.1935
Ludwigsburg PrisonImprisoned · 13.05.1935
Charlottenstr. 5, StuttgartResided (1938) · 1938
KZ BuchenwaldInterned · 23.07.1938
GemmingenLetter · 30.10.1946
Bad CannstattLetter

Timeline

22.03.1874Born in Gemmingen
1919Marries Maria Ruth Fuchs
1929Divorce from Maria Ruth
07.05.1935Convicted of 'Rassenschande'
08.05.1938Released from Ludwigsburg prison
23.07.1938Re-arrested as 'work-shy Jew'
16.01.1940Murdered in KZ Buchenwald

Correspondence

Personal data sheet for emigration

Handwritten letter to cousin — family fate1946

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.'

Sources

Gedenkbuch der Münchner Juden (Stadtarchiv München) — Munich city archive memorial book, compiled from the Kennkartendoppel 1938/39. The entry for Julius (auch Isaak) Oppenheimer records his parents, his siblings with birth years, his marriage to Elsa on 25.05.1921 in Gemmingen, and his deportation to Piaski on 04.04.1942.
Oppenheimer/Shacham Family Archive — Personal documents, photos, and correspondence
Stolpersteine Stuttgart
Margit Bernstein Memoir (English Translation) — 11-page English translation of Margit Bernstein's Hebrew memoir/autobiography. Written in 1963. Title: 'The biography of Margit Edith Bernstein born Oppenheimer'. Covers childhood, father's arrest and imprisonment, Jewish orphanage in Esslingen, Kristallnacht, forced labor, deportation to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, factory camp in Silesia near Czech border, liberation at Nachod, emigration to Palestine via Belgium, post-war life in Israel. Ends with 'I Accuse.'

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