Moritz Levinstein

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Moritz Levinstein

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sontra, Hesse, Germany
Death: December 06, 1938 (54)
Vachdorf, Thüringen, Germany (Selbstmord | Suicide)
Immediate Family:

Son of Levi Leib Levinstein and Bertha Betti Levinstein
Husband of Nanette Levinstein
Father of Heinrich/Henry Max Levinstein
Brother of Gustav Levinstein; Johanna Kander and Louis Levinstein

Managed by: Sharon Meen
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About Moritz Levinstein

See Meen, "The Family of Meier & Karoline (née Eisenfresser) MAYER," https://judeninthemar.org/the-jewish-families-of-themar-1865-1943/t...

  • Date/place of birth in Siegfried Wolf, Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol 1 (unpaginated)
  • Identified as son of Levi and Martha (née Heilbrunn) Levinstein in Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Births, 1851-1901
  • Identified as husband of Nanette (née Mayer) Levistein in S. Wolf cited above.
  • Identified as father of Henry Levistein in S. Wolf cited above.
  • On 22 Apr 1937, Moritz sailed from Hamburg, Germany, arriving to New York, USA on 30 Apr 1937, with a final destination stated as Themar, Germany
  • Date/place of death in S. Wolf cited above.
  • A Stolpersteine was laid for Moritz, Nanette, and Heinrich Levinstein in Themar.

Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:

  • Levinstein, Moritz geboren am 17. November 1884 in Sontra/Rotenburg i. Hessen-Nassau/Hessen-Nassau
  • wohnhaft in Themar
  • Internierung/Inhaftierung 10. November 1938 - 05. Dezember 1938, Buchenwald, Konzentrationslager
  • Todesdatum 06. Dezember 1938
  • Todesort Vachdorf Freitod

Mentioned in Robert L. Strauss's narrative "The tearful secret of Themar" http://www.salon.com/1999/09/20/germany2/

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Moritz Levinstein's Timeline

1884
November 17, 1884
Sontra, Hesse, Germany
1919
December 4, 1919
Themar, Thuringia, Germany
1938
December 6, 1938
Age 54
Vachdorf, Thüringen, Germany
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