Martin Schmidt

• Date/place of birth identified in German National Archives, Memorial Book
• Identified as son of Isak and Ida (née Wollner) Schmidt in Siegfried Wolf. Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol 2 (unpaginated)
• Martin Schmidt was arrested in the Reichspogromnacht/Kristallnacht of 9/10 November 1938 and imprisoned in Buchenwald. He was not released until 11 December 1938. See https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/7047750
• On 10 May 1942, Martin Schmidt was deported from Kaltennordheim to Belzyce Ghetto in Lublin. See https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/128450597. The exact date and place of his murder are unknown.
• On 19/20 September 1942, Martin's father, Isak, and his stepmother, Mathilde Schmidt, were deported from Kaltennordheim to Theresienstadt Ghetto.

Entry in German National Archives, ‘’Memorial Book’':
Schmidt, Martin
born on 27th May 1902 in Kaltennordheim / Dermbach / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach
resident of Kaltennordheim
Imprisonment:
10th November 1938, Buchenwald, concentration camp
Deportation:
from Weimar-Leipzig
10th May 1942, Belzyce, ghetto