Alfred Wilhelm Behr

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Behr, Alfred Wilhelm

• born on 29th June 1882 in Karlsruhe / - / Baden
• resident of Karlsruhe

Deportation:

• from Baden-Pfalz-Saarland
• 22nd October 1940, Gurs, internment camp
• Drancy, collecting detention camp
• 14th August 1942, Auschwitz, extermination camp

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Alfred Wilhelm Behr and Behr Lilli

Alfred Wilhelm Behr was born in Karlsruhe on 29 June 1882 in Karlsruhe, the fourth child of the couple Sigmund and Dina Behr nee Mayer,. The burial place of the parents, the father Sigmund (March 15, 1850 - August 11 1924) and the mother Dina (August 17, 1852 - June 24, 1923) has been preserved in the Jewish cemetery in Karlsruhe.An additional memorial plaque reminds of the two, in WW1 fallen sons Dr. Sally Behr and Behr Eugen.

Alfred grew up in Karlsruhe as part of his large family. Besides the two siblings Sally and Eugen aforementioned there was the brother Emil and the Sisters Karoline-Lilli and Adele.

Father Sigmund Behr is mentioned in 1877 for the first time in the address book of the City of Karlsruhe and in 1890 registered as the owner of a cloth shop in the Academy Street. 8 In 1905 he took over a furniture fabric wholesale business, which was continued under the name "Moritz Veith, Nachf." In Lessing Straße 3. Alfred attended the grammar school until the 10th grade. Presumably he worked early on with the business of his father, like his other siblings. When his father died in 1924, the brothers Emil and Alfred took over the business, but they gave it to 1932/1933. Emil emigrated in 1938 to Canada, Alfred was then working as an independent businessman, correspondent and bookkeeper. He was also a member of the Jewish Carl-Friedrich-box, which was connected to the international B'nai B'Brith Loge.

Lilli Behr, born Jöhlinger, was born on 25 November 1880 in Wiesloch. Her father was Max Jöhlinger, her mother Ida, born in Ladenburg on October 25, 1856 Hirsch. Lilli married first husband Julius Götz and lived in Mannheim.There the two children of the couple to the world that was born on April 20, 1898 Marie and was born on August 18, 1910 Salomon Walter came. On January 15, 1914 her husband died she married Julius and 1920 in Mannheim second husband Alfred Wilhelm Behr. The couple had no children, but lived the son Walter from his first marriage, first with them in Karlsruhe and visited the Goethe grammar school.

The couple Behr lived in Karlsruhe in different houses, so in the crown 34, Ritterstraße 40 and until the beginning of 1940 in the Ritterstraße 29. Then they had to the "Jewish house" of Dr. Arnold Seligmann and his wife Rosalie in Kriegstrasse 192 draw, where even the couple Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Rieser and his wife Adele born Behr, the sister of Alfred Wilhelm, was quartered.

Like most Jewish citizens of Karlsruhe and the couple Alfred and Lilli Behr was infamously picked up to be transported to Gurs on October 22, 1940 the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles in France. Their registration numbers were 1287 and 1288. The same fate befell two sisters of Alfred, the aforementioned wife Adele Rieser born Behr and her husband, and Karoline Lilly Eppstein born Behr and husband Oskar. About the very arduous trip to Gurs and the catastrophic conditions in that camp is already much has been written. Letters of the couple Alfred Wilhelm and Lilli Behr have not survived. Both are, as their companions in misfortune, have suffered greatly from the disastrous conditions. Many, especially older inmates died, so also Lillis mother Ida Jöhlinger the age of 85 years.On March 17, 1941, the Behr with many other prisoners are relocated to the camp Récébédou. All hoped to improve the situation, but the conditions there were no better than in Gurs. Lack meals, cold and disease consumed and the deaths were numerous. The French guards embezzled food and incoming aid packages.

On June 25, 1941 Adele Rieser wrote, the sister of Alfred Wilhelm, in a letter from the camp that "Alfred and Lilly in the coming days to Marseille". Thither actually came only people whose departure was preparing. Probably it but did not work, because on November 2, 1942, reported Adele Rieser in a letter to relatives in Switzerland: "But on August 10, Alfred arrived with a transport continued and today we have no address or message from them. And now came for them even the convocation to Marseille, which is the prospect of leaving for USA. However, here is where we have been herversetzt since early October, we met some fellow sufferers from Gurs and Récébédou that came from Marseilles, where they had waited in vain for leaving 1 ½ years ". The transport of 10 August 1942, in the camp at Drancy near Paris, from where the transports were organized to Auschwitz. With transport no. 19 also, the couple Behr was deported on 14 August in the extermination camp. Of the 991 Jewish prisoners 115 younger men were singled out for hard work, sent the rest to the gas chambers. Let us not forget it!

Children from the first marriage of Lilly Behr, widowed Götz, born Jöhlinger were Marie, married Frankl, who was able to emigrate to the USA, and Salomon Walter Goetz, who later Shlomo Getz called. He studied after school in Karlsruhe until 1932 seven semesters Jura, was assessor and official 1933 but dismissed. He then continued his studies with major financial problems in Grenoble, visited in 1935 in Italy a preparation camp for emigration to Palestine, where he came 1936th Until 1941 he worked on a kibbutz, then until 1945 in a British military camp, later as a lawyer. In his first marriage he was married to Ruth Landau. Your child Arod was born 1938th 1946 married Shlomo Getz 1946 Ella Pels. They had two children, Eri, born in 1948, and Dan, born in 1951, and were Israeli citizens.

In connection with the exact death date is related to the post-war German bureaucracy still an unpleasant detail to report. Early fifties made a request for reparations Shlomo Getz. now between his lawyer and the German authorities, there was a permanent long, unimaginable from today's perspective dispute over the exact death his mother Lilly Behr. As for almost all lost in Auschwitz victims, the death was officially established on May 8, 1945, the end of the war. In compensation matters this day, however, should not be accepted as death, but the German court ruled: ". Very high probability, which is tantamount to the life experience virtually the certainty that the persecution has the August 14, 1942 will not survive" After a long correspondence agreed the authority then "generously" ready not to accept 14 August, the departure from Drancy than death, but only the day of arrival in Auschwitz, 16 August, since the applicant could not prove that his mother after arriving longer continue to have lived. What a bad eyesore postwar German bureaucracy!

Alfred (Wilhelm) Behr

• German Minority Census, 1939
• Birth: June 29 1882 - Karlsruhe, Germany
• Residence: May 1939 - Karlsruhe, Germany
• Death: Before May 8 1945