Walter Goldschmidt

Walter Goldschmidt
Birthdate:	September 11, 1897
Birthplace:	Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany
Death:	December 1969 (72) New Jersey, United States
Immediate Family:	Son of Selmar Goldschmidt and Rosalie Goldschmidt Husband of Margot Goldschmidt Partner of Grete-Sophie Ballin Brother of Else Goldschmidt; Erich Goldschmidt; Elise Birnbach; Kurt Goldschmidt; Georg Goldschmidt and 1 other; and Irma Glaser « less

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Date/place of birth identified in Siegfried Wolf. Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol 1, p 172
Identified as son of Selmar and Rosalie Goldschmidt, see Wolf
Walter Goldschmidt fought in the German army in WWI and received the Iron Cross II. [Wolf, p. 172 ]
Walter Goldschmidt was arrested in the Reichspogromnacht/Kristallnacht of 9/10 November 1938 and imprisoned in Buchenwald from [Source: Wolf ]
Identified as husband of Margot Israelski whom he married on 29 January 1943 in Ghetto Theresienstadt. (Wolf)
Walter Goldschmidt survived Ghetto THeresienstadt and returned to Nordhausen in June 1945. (Wolf)
On 9 December 1946, Walter and Margot Israelski left Germany, sailing from Bremen to New York. (Source: Year: 1946; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 7247; Line: 12; Page Number: 148/Source Information: Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line].
A Stolperstein was laid to honour Walter Goldschmidt in 2018; see http://nordhausen.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/nordhausen/startseit...

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1897	September 11, 1897	Birth of Walter Goldschmidt Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany
1969	December 1969 Age 72	Death of Walter Goldschmidt New Jersey, United States

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