Historical records matching Max Philippsborn
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About Max Philippsborn
Max Philippsborn was born on March 11, 1880 in Bentschen, Meseritz district. His father was the merchant Leopold Philippsborn, his mother was Rosalie, née Lewy. Max Philippsborn's first marriage was to Recha, née Deutschkron. They had two sons: Leopold, born June 7, 1909, and Willy, born June 18, 1910.
Two daughters followed: Edith on November 15, 1911 and Ruth, who died very young. The marriage ended in divorce.
Max Philippsborn married Adelheid for the second time and thus joined the Reissner family of traders on August 23, 1914.
The family now lived in Seelow, at Berliner Str. 46, which used to be number 13. Max Philippsborn fought as a sergeant in World War I.
A son named Heinz Philippsborn was born to the. couple on May 13, 1920 in Seelow. The pogrom night of November 9, 1938, which went down in history as “Reichskristallnacht,” also changed the lives of the Jewish residents of Seelow forever. That night on November 10, 1938, SA men broke the windows of the Jewish
families and devastated and destroyed the furnishings. The Jewish families only became aware of the full extent of the devastation caused by the SA and their thugs the following day.
Max Philippsborn, commissioned by the Jewish community to report the damage caused to the mayor, Dr. Flaghaar was taken into so-called protective custody by police officer Loost and then imprisoned in the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Over 6,300 Jewish men - mostly from Berlin - were taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the days after the pogroms. The vast majority of the November prisoners were released by spring 1939 on the condition that they emigrate from Germany immediately.
One of these was Max Philippsborn. As can be deduced from his prisoner number, he was taken to
the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on November 12, 1938. He was registered as prisoner number 12253
and was in block 40 housed in the so-called small camp. In the clinker factory field unit he had to do
hard work with poor food. On December 13, 1938 - four weeks later - Max Philippsborn was released
from the concentration camp.
Almost two years later, on November 26, 1940, Max Philippsborn died, aged 60 years old in Seelow, with the
cause of death noted on the death certificate: arteriosclerosis.
His wife Adelheid was deported on April 2, 1942 to the Warsaw Ghetto and died there. His son from his first marriage, Leopold, was murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp on June 30, 1943. His
daughter Edith from his first marriage was murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp. Willy
Philippsborn survived the Holocaust as a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp in the “masonry
column”. Heinz Philippsborn managed to escape to England in April 1939.
Max Philippsborn did not die in a Nazi death camp. Nevertheless, he was physically abused and locked up
in a concentration camp for four weeks in connection with the November pogrom in 1938 was undoubtedly
a Nazi victim.
According to a city resolution of September 22, 1942, the Philippsborn family's property was sold to the
Deutsche Post. The then seized store at Berliner Straße 46 is included in the Claims Conference's list of
assets located in the former GDR that have been recovered and are still pending settlement under the
German Asset Restitution Act.
On March 11, 2024, 84 years after his death, some of his descendants, including his granddaughter, and great grandsons laid a stolperstein in front of the site of his house, at 46 Berliner Strasse, in Seelow, Germany.
[Attempts at editing the garbled translation]: No. 156 Seelow, 27th of November, 1940 The former trader Max Israel Philippsborn, Jewish resident in Seelow has passed away on the 26th of November, 1940 at 16 o'clock 45 minutes in Seelow. The deceased was born on the 11th of March, 1880 in Bentschen, County of Meseritz. Father: Businessman Leopold Philippsborn, late of Bentschen, County of Meseritz. Mother: Rosalie born Lewy, late of Berlin. The deceased was married to Adelheid Sara born Reißner, Jewish, resident in Seelow. Registered on written announcement of the farm worker Karl-Heinz Israel Wangenheim from Seelow. The person indicated is known personally and declared that the death occurred to his own knowledge. Read , approved and signed. Karl Heinz Israel Wangenheim The correspondence with the first book is certified Seelow, 27.11.1940 of The registrar representation: Carpenter The registrar in representation: Cause of death: Arteriosclerosis. on the 23.8.1919 in Seelow (registry office Seelow No. 14/1919)
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