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David Dagobert Rubin ZINKOWER: b. 30 Jan 1876, Brody - d. 29 Sept 1942, Chelmno, HOLOCAUST
Information courtesy of various sources, including the following ...
This particularly valuable article about the family:
https://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?&LANGUAGE=EN&MAIN_ID=7&...
DAVID ZINKOWER * 1876
Grindelallee 62 (Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum)
HIER WOHNTE DAVID ZINKOWER JG.1876 DEPORTIERT 1941 LODZ / LITZMANNSTADT ERMORDET 29.9.1942
further stumbling stones in Grindelallee 62:
Johanna Keibel, Rosa Keibel, Rosa Zinkower, Herbert Zinkower
David (Dagobert) Rubin Zinkower, born on 30 Jan. 1876 in Brody/Galicia, deported on 25 Oct. 1941 to the Lodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto, deported on 29 Sept. 1942 to the Chelmno extermination camp and murdered Rosa Zinkower, née Israel, born on 7 May 1874 in Hamburg, deported on 25 Oct. 1941 to the Lodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto, deported on 29 Sept. 1942 to the Chelmno extermination camp and murdered Herbert Hertz Zinkower, born on 27 June 1902 in Hamburg, in 1941 detained in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, from there via several camps transported back to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, deported on 10 Dec. 1942 from there to Auschwitz, murdered on 12 Jan. 1943
Grindelallee 62
The Jewish couple Aron and Chaje Ruschel Zinkower immigrated from Galicia to Hamburg in 1883 with four children. Son David Rubin completed an apprenticeship as an accountant and later worked as a lottery collector. In 1901, he married Rosa Israel, born in Hamburg, and had two sons with her. The family lived at Gneisenaustrasse 6 for many years until David Zinkower lost his job in 1933. Then they moved to Grindelallee 62, from where David and Rosa Zinkower were deported to the Lodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto on 25 Oct.1941. On 2 May 1942, they received a "resettlement order” ("Aussiedlungsbefehl”). This meant deportation to the Chelmno extermination camp. Thereupon both addressed letters to the "resettlement commission” ("Aussiedlungskommission”) of the ghetto pleading not to be "resettled.” In vain. "Odmowa,” i.e., Polish for "rejected,” read the stamp on the letters. On 29 Sept. 1942, Rosa and David Zinkower were transported to Chelmno and murdered.
Rosa and David Zinkower’s younger son Alphons (Alfons) was able to emigrate to the USA via Shanghai. The older one, Herbert, was married to the non-Jewish woman Gretchen Weitz. However, he started an affair with a colleague, also non-Jewish, as a result of which he was sentenced to four years in prison for "racial defilement” ("Rassenschande”). Initially, he was transferred to the Rodgau-Dieburg prison camp, but he being Jewish, Lingen/Ems was "responsible” for him, so that he was taken there on 28 Nov. 1941. On 2 Jan. 1942, he was transferred to the V Neusustrum prison camp about 50 kilometers (some 31 miles) away. In August of the same year, an investigation revealed that he was neither "capable of bog work,” nor "capable of external work,” nor "capable of being commanded” ("kommandofähig”). Thus, the "repatriation to [the] parent institution” was "to be initiated.” On 28 Sept. 1942, he was returned to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp.
From there, Alphons Zinkower was deported to Auschwitz on 10 Dec. 1942 and murdered on 12 Jan. 1943.
Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
© Petra Schmolinske
Quellen: 4; 5; 8; 9; StaH 213-11 Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht – Strafsachen (1908–2008) 6418/42; StaH 242-1 II Gefängnisverwaltung II 4259; StaH 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung 2548; StaH 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung 26285; StaH 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung 3159; USHMM, RG 15.083, 300/1126 u. 300/1126, 1129. Zur Nummerierung häufig genutzter Quellen siehe Link "Recherche und Quellen".
N.B. However, there seems to be some confusion as to the "couple" who moved to Hamburg from Brody in 1883.
It is very possible that mother Chaje Ruchel accompanied her (presumably widowed?) son Aron and his four children there originally. It is also possible that she returned to Brody following Aron's marriage with Debora (no death/burial record for her yet traced in Hamburg e.g.).
Also - in very last line - an unexpected mix-up concerning which brother actually died in Auschwitz.
Details of deportation and subsequent death courtesy of:
https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=6772...
David Rubin Zinkower was born in Brody, Poland in 1876. He was a sales person and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Hamburg, Germany.
This information is based on a List of persecuted persons, found in Questionnaires used for the search for relatives by Relico, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Relief Committee in Geneva, completed by survivors in Shanghai, 1946 (The letter Z), Alfons Zinkower
Last Name Zinkower First Name David First Name Rubin Gender Male Date of Birth 30/01/1876 Place of Birth Brody,Poland Marital Status Married Permanent Place of Residence Hamburg,Hansestadt Hamburg (Hamburg),Hansa City of Hamburg,Germany Address of permanent residence Grindelallee 62 Citizenship Germany Profession Sales person Status according to Source person being sought after as missing Submitter's Last Name Zinkower Submitter's First Name Alfons Source Questionnaires used for the search for relatives by Relico, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Relief Committee in Geneva, completed by survivors in Shanghai, 1946 (The letter Z) Type of material List of persecuted persons Item ID 6772535
1876 |
January 30, 1876
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Brody, Brodivs'kyi district, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
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1902 |
June 27, 1902
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Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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1908 |
June 6, 1908
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Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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1942 |
September 29, 1942
Age 66
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Chełmno, Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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