Levy/Leopold Katz

The story of Leopold Katz and his contribution to the orchestra of Saalfeld is told in an article, "Neugründung eines Städtischen Orchesters vor 80 Jahren," informativ Saalfeld, 05/06 2022 https://www.saalfeld.de/files/1804AEFE156/SLFinfo_05-0622Internet.pdf

• Identified as son of Nathan and Rosette (née Katz) Katz in Siegfried Wolf. Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol. 1, p. 280, and in Arolsen Archive record; see https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/130609447
• Identified as husband of Fanny Meier in Arolsen Archive record cited above
• Identified as father of Rosa Holländer (née Katz) in Rosa Holländer's Emigration Index card; see https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/129819061
• In September 1942, Leopold and Fanny Katz were forced to sign a contract with the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RV)(The National Association of German Jews) whereby he assigned all yyy remaining assets to the RV. The contract was called a "Heimeinkaufsvertrag" or "Home Purchase Contract" and was supposed to provide Leopold and Fanny Katz with room & board and medical attention and other care in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Instead, the money paid to the RV went directly into Nazi coffers, and Leopold and Fanny Katz did not receive any of the promised care.
• On 19/20 September 1942, Leopold and Fanny Katz were deported from Saalfeld to Ghetto Theresienstadt.
• Leopold's brother, Josef Katz, had been deported on 18. September 1942 to Theresienstadt Ghetto; his sister-in-law, Bertha Katz, née Mayer, was on the same transport.
• Leopold Katz was dead within a week after arriving in the ghetto. The death certificate signed by a doctor in the Ghetto stated that he died of a heart attack; see http://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/18336-leopold...
  
• Stolpersteine laid 2008: see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Saalfeld_(Saale)/Stolpersteine and http://ajubs.blogsport.de/2016/01/
• Family information card can be found here, identifying his daughter as Rosa: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS5B-55V?i=367&cat...

Entry in German National Archives, Memorial Book:
Katz, Leopold
Born on 18th June 1874 in Bibra / Meiningen / Sachsen-Meiningen
Resident of Saalfeld
Deportation:
From Weimar-Halle-Leipzig
20th September 1942, Theresienstadt, ghetto
See: http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/en1001345