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Alexander Benjamin

Also Known As: "Alex Benjamin"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Death: after May 12, 1942
Belzyce ghetto, Lublin District, Occupied Poland (Murdered during Holocaust)
Immediate Family:

Son of Isaac Eduard Benjamin and Emma Benjamin
Husband of Henriette Benjamin and Sophie Benjamin
Father of Gerda Meyerstein (geschiedene Abraham) and Ilse Rosenthal
Brother of Hermann Benjamin and Minna Frankenberg

Occupation: Laundry and dyeing
Managed by: Judith Nathan Elam
Last Updated:

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
Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1910
October 30, 1910
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
1913
July 25, 1913
Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1942
May 12, 1942
Age 58
Belzyce ghetto, Lublin District, Occupied Poland