Max Majer Lerner

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Max Majer Lerner

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Birthplace: Kraków, Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Death: September 21, 1942 (68)
Treblinka, ostrowski, mazowieckie, Poland (Died in Holocaust)
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Husband of Antonie Rebecca Lerner
Father of Recha = Rachel Lerner; Frieda Lerner; Hertha Schuster and Regina Jenny Biber

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About Max Majer Lerner

  • Date/place of birth in Erich Woehlkens, Lisa Kuhlmann and Beate L Weiland, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Juden in Uelzen und in Nordostniedersachsen (1996), p. 185.
  • Identified as son of Moritz Jacob Lerner and husband of Antonie Rebecca Lerner (née Kupferstein) in Woelkens et. al., Beiträge, p. 185. See "Das Gedenkbuch des Bundesarchivs für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Judenverfolgung in Deutschland (1933-1945)" and Dietrich Banse (Ed.) Gedemütigt, vertrieben, ermordet. Uelzener Bürgerinnen und Bürger jüdischen Glaubens zwischen 1933 und 1942. Uelzen 2008. p. 103.
  • Max moved to Uelzen in 1899. Later 2 of his brothers followed him. Max Lerner was contracted as a salesman by Jacob Kupferstein. three months later he marries Jacob Kupfersteins daughter Antonie (Toni). In april 1904 Jacob Kupferstein passes his business to his son-in-law Max Lerner. See Woehlkens et al. p.378.
  • He was a member of the Schützenverein (traditional shooting club) and the volunteer fire department. During WW I he served in the medical corps. Max Lerner trusted that the civil society of Uelzen would protect him as a fellow citizen from anti-Semitic attacks. In 1936 he and his wife visited the children in Palestine. The children could not convince them to stay there, they returned to Germany. See Dietrich Banse (Ed.) Gedemütigt, vertrieben, ermordet. Uelzener Bürgerinnen und Bürger jüdischen Glaubens zwischen 1933 und 1942. Uelzen 2008. p. 103.
  • Max was deported on 19. Juli 1942, to Theresienstadt, Ghetto and 21. September 1942, to Treblinka, Vernichtungslager. There he was murdered. See "Das Gedenkbuch des Bundesarchivs für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Judenverfolgung in Deutschland (1933-1945)"
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Max Majer Lerner's Timeline

1874
June 2, 1874
Kraków, Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
1901
March 29, 1901
Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1903
January 23, 1903
Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1905
November 23, 1905
Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1908
February 16, 1908
Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
1942
September 21, 1942
Age 68
Treblinka, ostrowski, mazowieckie, Poland