

Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:
cf.: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Nettetal
Werner was a bright kid who was a joy for his parents. Sadly, his father Fritz was imprisoned immediately after the Kristallnacht (Nov. 1938) when he was not yet 2 years old. Fritz would never see his son again after he was forced to leave Germany as condition for being freed from Dachau after 3 months imprisonment under very harsh conditions. In the letters his mother Ilse wrote to his father in Holland, preparing the emigration of his family, she told him about Werner's longing to be reunited with his father. Werner, his mother and maternal grandmother were deported to Riga Ghetto in December 1941 when Werner was only 5 years old. They all vanished and no trace has been found ever since.
1936 |
December 17, 1936
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Mariannen-Institut, Jakobstrasse 18, Aachen, NRW, Germany
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1941 |
December 1941
Age 4
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Ghetto Riga, Latvia
As no trace has been found after deportation to Ghetto Riga, the authorities defined date of death to be May 8, 1945, the day Germany capitulated. |
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1945 |
May 8, 1945
Age 30
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Bikernieki Memorial, Riga, Latvia
There are indications that most Riga deportees of Deportation Da 38 were murdered in the Bikernieki Forest, near Riga, Latvia.
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