Arthur Urnstein

• See story about Urnstein family at Das kurze Leben der Liesel Urnstein 1942 aus Kaltensundheim, at https://www.schulportal-thueringen.de/media/detail?tspi=4980
• Date/place of birth in entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book,
• Identified as husband of Jenny Urnstein (née Schmidt), and father of Liesel Urnstein, in S. Wolf, Juden in Thüringen: biographischen Daten 1933-1945" (2000), vol. 2 (unpaginated). [Entry is for Umstein, but correct spelling of name is "Urnstein"]
• Arthur Urnstein was arrested in the Reichspogromnacht/Kristallnacht of 9/10 November 1938 and imprisoned in Buchenwald from 10 November 1938 until at least 10 December 1938.  [Source: See Schreiben des Bürgermeisters von Kaltensundheim vom 30. November 1938 an das Thüringische Kreisamt Eisenach zur Unterstützung des Antrags auf Haftentlassung von Arthur Urnstein aus dem Konzentrationslager Buchenwald zwecks Geschäftsauflösung, Kreisarchiv Meiningen in Das kurze Leben der Liesel Urnstein 1942 aus Kaltensundheim, at https://www.schulportal-thueringen.de/media/detail?tspi=4980]
• On 10 May 1942, Arthur Urnstein was deported with his wife and daughter to Belzyce Ghetto. The date of his death is unknown. Re: Belzyce Ghetto see: Transport , Train Da 27 from Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany to Belzyce, Lublin, Lublin, Poland on 10/05/1942, http://db.yadvashem.org/deportation/transportDetails.html?language=... Entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book
  

Urnstein, Arthur
Born on 25th August 1901 in Jugenheim / Bingen / Hessen
Resident of Kaltensundheim
Deportation:
From Weimar-Leipzig
10th May 1942, Belzyce, ghetto
Source: http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/en1002981

Re: Belzyce Ghetto see: Transport , Train Da 27 from Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany to Belzyce, Lublin, Lublin, Poland on 10/05/1942, http://db.yadvashem.org/deportation/transportDetails.html?language=...