Michelbacher, Siegfried
b. 06.09.1923, Mannheim — d. 08.02.1945, KZ Dachau
Personal Details
Persecution & Holocaust
Events
"Mischling 1. Grades" (half-Jewish)
MannheimAttends Fangelsbachschule
Hauptstätter Str. 92, StuttgartFrom 1935 attended Jewish school at Hospitalstr. 36
Hospitalstr. 36, StuttgartCook training at Jewish hospital kitchen. From 1940: works for Jewish community in Stuttgart.
MainzJudenhaus – same address as Margit
Hospitalstr. 36, StuttgartTransport XIII/2. Met Margit in camp. Spoke of becoming a doctor.
Ghetto TheresienstadtMemoir: September 1944, shipment of 600 able-bodied men. Margit had to say goodbye. 'The parting was heartbreaking with lots of tears and kisses and hopes of seeing each other as free human beings.'
Ghetto TheresienstadtMargit followed 2 days later (01.10.1944)
KZ AuschwitzStolperstein: Hauptstätter Str. 92, Stuttgart
KZ DachauNotes
Attended Fangelsbachschule in Stuttgart from 1933
From 1935 transferred to Jewish school at Hospitalstr. 36
From 1940 worked for Jewish community in Stuttgart
Wanted to become a doctor
Margit followed him to Auschwitz voluntarily
'M. E. Bernstein' (Margit) later testified about him
Memoir: His mother (Emilie Michelbacher) and Margit's mother tried to cancel the transport to Theresienstadt.
Memoir: In Theresienstadt, said to his mother 'If they release me from the shipment and Margit not what do we have?' His parents lived separately; stepfather was Christian.
Memoir: September 1944, included in shipment of 600 able-bodied men sent from Theresienstadt. Margit had to say goodbye.
Memoir: Margit learned after liberation that he died 14 days before Dachau was liberated, of typhoid, from starvation and exhaustion.
Memorials
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