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Hugo Grünbaum

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Walldorf/Werra, Thuringia, Germany
Death: October 24, 1942 (73)
Ghetto Theresienstadt, Terezín, Occupied Czechoslovakia (Murdered)
Immediate Family:

Son of Noah Grünbaum and Minna Grünbaum
Husband of Klara Grünbaum
Father of Child Grünbaum; Mira Sommer; Else Neuhaus and Hans Grünbaum
Brother of Minna Rosenthal
Half brother of Beanka Grünbaum; Emil Grünbaum and Karl Grünbaum

Managed by: Sharon Meen
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Immediate Family

About Hugo Grünbaum

See S. Meen, "Die Familie von Hugo und Klara (geb. Schloss) Grünbaum," Ihre Stimmen Leben Noch, https://judeninthemar.org/de/die-familie-hugo-grunbaum/

  • Date/place of birth identified in Siegfried Wolf. Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol 1, p. 183
  • Identified as son of Noa and Minna (née Friedmann) Grünbaum, see Wolf
  • Identified as husband of Klara (née Schloss) Grünbaum, see Wolf
  • Identified as father of Hans Grünbaum, Mira Sommer (née Grünbaum), and Else Neuhaus (née Grünbaum), see Wolf
  • On 19 September 1942, Hugo Grünbaum was forced to sign a so-called "retirement home purchase contract" for room and board in Theresienstadt. All her/his remaining assets were transferred to the Reich Association of German Jews, to be further transferred to Reich coffers. The contract, called a "Heimeinkaufsvertrag," can be found in the Arolsen Archives at https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/de/search/person/128469428...
  • Date/place of death, see Wolf
  • On 27 November 2019, Stolpersteine were laid for Hugo and Klara Grünbaum in Themar; see https://judeninthemar.org/de/2019/11/stolpersteine-27-november-2019/
  • A Stolpersteine was also laid for Hans Grünbaum in Themar.

Entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book:
To note: Hugo Grünbaum was NOT a resident of Leipzig.
Grünbaum, Hugo
born on 05th December 1868 in Walldorf / Meiningen / Sachsen-Meiningen
resident of Themar and Leipzig
Imprisonment:
10th November 1938 - 01st December 1938, Buchenwald, concentration camp
Deportation:
from Weimar-Halle-Leipzig
20th September 1942, Theresienstadt, ghetto
Date of death: 24th October 1942
Place of death: Theresienstadt, ghetto

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Hugo Grünbaum's Timeline

1868
December 5, 1868
Walldorf/Werra, Thuringia, Germany
1901
1901
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1903
March 17, 1903
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1905
July 17, 1905
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1916
February 12, 1916
1942
October 24, 1942
Age 73
Ghetto Theresienstadt, Terezín, Occupied Czechoslovakia