Siegfried Samson

He lived in Oberhausen since December 1939 till 1941. First he lived in Havenstein-street no. 52, then he had move to the socalled “Judenhaus” (house for jews, a collection point for deportations) in Ellenbogen-street. It’s possible that he was deported to Litzmannstadt in October 1941. But it’s not sure that he was deported from Oberhausen, because we have another information that he went from Oberhausen to Aschaffenburg in April 1941. On the other hand, it is unlikely that he was deported from Dusseldorf, if he previously lived in Aschaffenburg. According to our information, he passed away in Litzmannstadt in June 1942.

Our sources tell us that Siegfried Samson came to Oberhausen in order to teach the very few jewish students in the jewish school. During this time he was the only teacher in the school.

' Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:

• Samson, Siegfried
• geboren am 31. Mai 1913
• in Edenkoben/Landau i. d. Pfalz/Bayern (Pfalz)
• wohnhaft in Groß Breesen / Trebnitz und
• in Oberhausen / - und
• in Landau i. d. Pfalz
• INTERNIERUNG/INHAFTIERUNG
• 15. November 1938 - 10. Dezember 1938,
• Dachau, Konzentrationslager
• DEPORTATION
• ab Düsseldorf
• 27. Oktober 1941, Litzmannstadt (Lodz), Ghetto
• TODESDATUM
• 23. Juni 1942
• TODESORT
• Litzmannstadt (Lodz), Ghetto

cf.: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Landau_in_...

Siegfried was a teacher and raised in Edenkoben, South West Germany and we know little of is life until World War 2. He had a younger sister, Rose. He was part of a large Jewish family, his father Juluis and Uncle, Eugen were a wine merchants and his other uncle Karl was a Government Official.

On 10th November 1938 Edenkoben suffered from Glasch Nacht and we believe he was sent to a ghetto in Karlsruhe on the boarder with Germany and France. After that we believe he was moved to Dusseldorf, and from there, the ghetto of Lodz, Poland.

In Lodz he managed to work as a translator, we therefore guess he could speak Polish. He was made exempt from being sent to Chelmno Concerntration Camp on 4th May 1942 because he was a translator. Later just under 10,000 Yiddish people were murdered at Chelmno.

On the 23rd June 1942 Siegfried died from malnutrition, at Lodz Ghetto Hospital. At present it is believed he is buried at Lodz.