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About Alexander Benjamin
- Date/place of birth in German National Archives, ‘’Memorial Book’ (see below), also in Erich Woehlkens, Lisa Kuhlmann and Beate L Weiland, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Juden in Uelzen und in Nordostniedersachsen (1996), p. 125.
- Identified as son of Isaac Eduard and Emma (née Hirsch) Benjamin in Woehlkens et. al., Beiträge, p. 125.
- Identified as husband of Henriette Behrend(t) in record of Henriette Benjamin's death in 1911; see Stadtarchive Weimar; Weimar, Deutschland; Personenstandsregister Sterberegister; Reference Number: 27 2/3 Bd 1911/Source Information: Ancestry.com. Weimar, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1950 [database on-line].
- Identified as father of Gerda Benjamin in record of Henriette Behrend's death cited above.
- Identified as the husband of Sophie (née Frank) Benjamin, and father of Ilse Benjamin, in Siegfried Wolf. Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol. 1, p. 33, also Woehlkens et. al., Beiträge, p. 125.
- Alexander Benjamin fought in the German army in World War I. He was a prisoner-of-war from October 1916 until 1920. [Source: http://www.historisches-unterfranken.uni-wuerzburg.de/juf/Datenbank...]
- Stolpersteine were laid for Alexander, Sophie, and Ilse Benjamin in Pößneck; see ,,Acht "Stolpersteine" mehr in Pößneck," Ostthüringer Zeitung, 20.03.2014: "Vier "Stolpersteine" im Gehweg vor der Friedrich-Engels-Straße 15 erinnern an den Färbereibesitzer Alexander Benjamin, seine Frau Sophie und seine Tochter Ilse sowie an die ebenfalls im Haus lebende Gerda Abraham (geborene Benjamin). Diese wurde mit dem Ehepaar am 10. Mai 1942 ins Ghetto Belzyce deportiert, während die für tot erklärte Tochter offenbar das Land nach Übersee verlassen konnte." http://schleiz.otz.de/web/lokal/suche/detail/-/specific/Acht-Stolpe...
Entry in German National Archives, ‘’Memorial Book’':
Benjamin, Alexander
born on 18th June 1883 in Uelzen / - / Hannover
resident of Uelzen and Pößneck
Deportation:
from Weimar-Leipzig
10th May 1942, Belzyce, ghetto
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Alexander Benjamin's Timeline
1883 |
June 18, 1883
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Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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1910 |
October 30, 1910
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Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
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1913 |
July 25, 1913
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Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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1942 |
May 12, 1942
Age 58
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Belzyce ghetto, Lublin District, Occupied Poland
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