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Louis Gassenheimer

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bibra, Grabfeld, Thuringia, Germany
Death: January 21, 1943 (69)
Theresienstadt Ghetto, Terezín, Occupied Czechoslovakia
Immediate Family:

Son of Salomon Gassenheimer and Babette Gassenheimer
Husband of Helene Gassenheimer
Father of Alice Kraus; Manfred/Fred Gates and Gerald (Gunther) Gates
Brother of Oskar Gassenheimer; Hedwig Sommer; Carl Gassenheimer; Alma Steinhardt; Josef Gassenheimer and 3 others

Managed by: Sharon Meen
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About Louis Gassenheimer

Please see S. Meen, https://judeninthemar.org/the-family-of-itzig-amelie-gassenheimer/

  • Birth date/place in https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-digitised-documents/documen...
  • Identified as son of Salomon Gassenheimer and Babette Wolferman in Jüdische Gemeinde Bibra (Kr. Eckartsberga), Matrikel, 1838-1937 (courtesy N. Akman)
  • Identified as husband of Helene Hirsch in Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
  • Identified as father of Manfred and Gunther Gassenheimer in S. Wolf, Siegfried Wolf, Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol 1
  • Identified as father of Alice Gassenheimer in Gassenheimer Descendant Report (Courtesy: N. Ackman)
  •  On 20 September 1942, Louis Gassenheimer was forced to sign a so-called "retirement home purchase contract" for room and board in Theresienstadt. All 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 Sikaron Felsberg Lehmann-Library.
  • Death date/place in https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-digitised-documents/documen...
  • As well, see the records in the Arolsen Archives re: Louis Gassenheimer at https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/?s=louis%20gasse...
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Louis Gassenheimer's Timeline

1873
February 14, 1873
Bibra, Grabfeld, Thuringia, Germany
1904
July 1, 1904
Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany
1906
April 14, 1906
Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany
1913
April 6, 1913
Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany
1943
January 21, 1943
Age 69
Theresienstadt Ghetto, Terezín, Occupied Czechoslovakia