Irving Kalberman

Else Blatt married the Isidor Kälbermann in Tuttlingen in 1930 and lived there in the Hermannstraße 23. The following text is by Gunda Woll of the Museums of the City of Tuttlingen.

Family calf man in Tuttlingen

"If we had guessed more, we would have gone earlier," Elise Fröhlich said in an interview. Similarly, Isidor Kälbermann would have answered similarly, if one had questioned him after the war. He had to deal painfully with the murder of his wife, daughter and in-laws in the distant United States. In the spring of 1939 he had left alone Tuttlingen to emigrate via England to the United States. He wanted to catch up with his family. But that did not happen anymore. But who was the Kälbermann family?

Isidor and Ludwig Kälbermann were born in Grosseicholzheim (Neckar-Odenwald district) as sons of cattle and shoe retailer Max Kälbermann and his wife Amalie. Heimann born in 1899 and 1901. In 1922, the brothers moved to Tuttlingen and soon acquired the Hermannstraße 23 building, which had formerly belonged to the shoe manufacturer Johannes Martin, and founded a shoe factory and a wholesaler of leather and footwear. Shoe manufacturing was soon abandoned, but the trade continued. In 1932, the brothers separated and each registered for a wholesale - Isidor for leather and footwear, Ludwig for footwear.

The older brother Isidor married in 1930 in Mainz born and based in Großgerau Else sheet, which is described as a strikingly good-looking woman. She was the daughter of merchant and wine merchant Siegfried Blatt and his wife Rosalie. In 1932 Else gave birth to her daughter Edith.

The younger brother Ludwig married Dina Schoen, born in Vacha in Eisenach in 1906. In 1933 the common son Werner was born.

The world of calf man changed with the seizure of power of the National Socialists. Already on April 1, 1933, a boycott call for Jewish shops was published, which was especially felt by Isidor Kälbermann's in-laws Siegfried and Rosalie Blatt. Their wine and liquor store in Großgerau was looted and destroyed. The significant pressure on the Jewish population in Gross-Gerau led her to move to her daughter Else in Tuttlingen. They lived with them in the Hermannstraße 23 building. They had to sell their own representative building in Groß-Gerau, but only a fraction of the agreed money was transferred to Tuttlingen. Her son Paul also lived in Tuttlingen for half a year in 1934, but then emigrated to France, where he was interned but was able to escape.

The calf men began in 1937 also interested in emigration opportunities. It is rumored that Isidor Kälbermann traveled to Palestine with the Rexingen reconnaissance troop, which was also joined by Julius Fröhlich, but could not bring himself to settle on the bare piece of land.

The brother Ludwig's family liquidated their business in March 1938 and left Tuttlingen in April for the United States. The passenger lists include an entry on President Harding for all three family members. Their destination was the town of Mount Vernon in the state of New York. Ludwig Kälbermann died in America in 1954.

His brother Isidor obviously hesitated after the Palestine experience to induce further. He ran his business until October 1938, then canceled it. When he was placed in protective custody during the so-called "Jewish action" of the Reichskristallnacht on November 9, 1938, he certainly felt that action was urgently needed, although he was dismissed as a combatant of the First World War in early December and the threat remained. but at the same time it was getting harder and harder to leave Germany and shortly before the outbreak of the war he called in Tuttlingen to probe the terrain in England or the USA.

Twice he appears in passenger lists towards the USA. On the one hand in 1939 during his escape, on the other in 1953 when he had obviously returned to clarify the fate of his family. At that time he moved from Le Havre to New York. The place of residence was New Rochelle in the state of New York, which is adjacent to Mount Vermont, where his brother relocated.

He never saw his family, which he had left behind in 1939. Already in May 1939, his daughter Edith moved to Stuttgart (initially at Uhlandstraße 25 to the Fam. Schloss), because she was denied admission to school in Tuttlingen. Later, her mother followed her. Both then lived in the Wannenstraße 16. In front of this house are the stumbling blocks for the lawyer Dr. med. Robert Mainzer and his wife Helene. Else and Edith calf man were in the first deportation train, which left on December 1, 1941, the Stuttgart North Station and Riga had the goal. There their track loses. However, it is known that the deportees first came to the camp Jungfernhof and were then shot to death in the woods near Riga.

Siegfried and Rosalie Blatt still lived in the house in Hermannstraße until August 1942. In her registration card is the note that they have moved to Baisingen. Whether this is true or whether they were deported directly from Tuttlingen, we do not know. In any case, they were abducted via the transit camp in Stuttgart with the transport XIII, 1 from the Stuttgart Central Station and arrived on 23 August 1942 in the concentration camp Theresienstadt to be taken from there to the concentration camp Treblinka. On October 10, 1942, he was murdered in Treblinka or Minsk. The same happened to his wife: she too was deported via the Theresienstadt concentration camp to the Treblinka concentration camp and has disappeared in Minsk. On September 15, 1946, she was pronounced dead.

Gunda Woll Museums of the city Tuttlingen Donaustr. 19 78532 Tuttlingen Tel. 07461 15135 E-Mail: info@museen-tuttlingen.de

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• Immigration: 1940 - New York, New York, United States
• Immigration: 1953 - New York City, New York, United States
• Residence: 1922 - Tuttlingen
• Residence: 1947 - New Haven, Connecticut, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
  • Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Mar 9 2019, 22:19:11 UTC
• Immigration: 1940 - New York, New York, United States
• Immigration: 1953 - New York City, New York, United States
• Residence: 1922 - Tuttlingen
• Residence: 1947 - New Haven, Connecticut, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
  • Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Mar 10 2019, 23:55:28 UTC