Dresden, Germany
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August 2014
Zwecher Tree
First name
Owadie (Oskar) Leib
Last name
Zwecher
Relative
My great-grandfather
Birthdate
09th June 1880
Place of birth
Kolomea (poln. Kolomyja) / - / Galizien
Date of arrival to Dresden
1911 (According to Dresden archive's, "since 1911, Mr. Zwecher in the Dresden address books listed")
Address
Rietschelstraße 15
Date of wedding
unknown
Place of wedding
Unknown – but probably before he get to Dresden
Practice\Profession\
Occupation
Merchant, laundry and textile goods act.
Trade of carpets, tapestry, textiles, steel-products, a mail-order-business for clothes, a hire-purchase-business and a shop of manufactured goods.
In 1931-1932 he had the function of treasure in "Tomche Nizrochim" ["Tomche Nizrochim" was founded in 1903 by Jews from Galicia (Poland) and was dedicated to help/ to support poor members.]
Date of Expulsion
28/10/1938
Target of Expulsion
Poland
Date of Death
unknown
Place of Death
unknown
Documents
No documents
Pictures
First name
Channe Chane Chana
Last name
Zwecher
née
Fränkel
Birthdate
23rd October 1879
Relative
My great-grandmother
Place of birth
Buckowina
Date of arrival to Dresden
Unknown – but probably 1911
Address
Rietschelstraße 15
Date of wedding
unknown
Place of wedding
Unknown – but probably before he get to Dresden
Practice\Profession\Occupation
Housewife and merchant, in address-books of 1933 and 1934 the textile-shop she was mentioned under her name.
Since 1938 she is listed in "textiles, tapestry and steel goods act"
Date of Expulsion
28/10/1938
Target of Expulsion
Poland
Date of Death
unknown
Place of Death
unknown
Documents
No documents
Pictures
First name
Malka Lea
Last name
Zwecher
Birthdate
21st July 1919
Relative
Daughter of Owadie & Chana, sister of Yechezkel Chaskel Kurt
Place of birth
Dresden
Address
Rietschelstraße 15
Practice\Profession\Occupation
unknown
Date of Expulsion
28/10/1938
Target of Expulsion
Poland
Date of Death
unknown
Place of Death
unknown
Other comments
Was able to emigrate. The target unknown.
Documents
No documents
Pictures
First name
Yechezkel Chaskel Kurt
Last name
Zwecher
Birthdate
11/11/12
Relative
My grandfather, son of Owadie & Chana, brother of Malka Lea
Place of birth
Dresden
Date of arrival to Dresden
(Born in Dresden)
Address
Rietschelstraße 15
In 1939 he lived in Röhrhofsgasse 16.
Date of wedding
1943
Place of wedding
Israel
Practice\Profession\ Occupation
Since the 1.1.1929 (16 years old!) he managed the office of the Jewish Youth-Orchestra
In 1934 his name mentioned as merchant.
He began law studies, but then he was excluded from it.
Then he began a study of Jewish Theology in Breslau and finished it with a diploma for religious teachers
Date of Expulsion
in 1939 he was arrested in the police headquarters in Dresden
Target of Expulsion
Released subject to promise of leaving German. Emigrate to Israel
Date of Death
Place of Death
Jerusalem
Other comments
Documents
In the book from Agatha Schindler / Sylvia Rogge-Gau: "Aktenzeichen "Unerwünscht". Dresdner Musikerschicksale und nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung 1933-1945" (= Lebenszeugnisse - Leidenswege, Heft 9), Dresden 1999, page 106, I dicovered a picture of an extract of the "Gemeindeblatt" (something like a newspaper from the Jewish community) from March 1929. In this text is mentioned, that Kurt Zwecher was since January 1929 the "Schriftführer", what means secretary or keeper of the minutes, and that the "Geschäftstelle", what means the administrativ office of the orchestra, is at his home Rietschelstraße 15.
Pictures
No pictures from this period
First name
Simon/Szymon
Last name
Zwecher
Birthdate
26th February 1897
Relative
Owadie's brother
Place of birth
Kolomea (poln. Kolomyja) / - / Galizien
Date of arrival to Dresden
2nd August 1922
Address
Rietschelstraße 15/II, Steinstraße 3 and Ziegelstraße 54. [There was also the orthodox association "Schomre Hadas", founded in 1919, dedicated to further all matters of the orthodox Jewishness, especially to employ an orthodox scholar (rabbi or Dajan), to establish and to supervise ritual butcher's shops and a ritual bath (Mikwe). This association possessed since the end of 1919 the ground and the houses in Ziegelstraße 54!!! There, in the rear-house, they constructed in 1923 the mikwe which existed until 1938 (it was called "Wilhelmsbad"). For the bath was used rainwater.]
Date of wedding
1935
Place of wedding
The synagogue of Dresden (the synagogue was built in 1840 by Gottfried Semper and destroyed on 9th november 1938)
Practice\Profession\ Occupation
shop/trade-assistant (in German: "Handlungsgehilfe")
Date of Expulsion
28/10/1938
Target of Expulsion
Poland
Date of Death
Unknown
Place of Death
Unknown
Other comments
Documents
No documents
Pictures
No pictures
First name
Anna
Last name
Zwecher
née
Weinsieder
Birthdate
5.6.1905
Relative
Simon's wife
Place of birth
Dresden
Address
Before marriage: Grunaer Str. 7, 3th floor, after marriage: Rietschelstraße 15/II, Steinstraße 3 and Ziegelstraße 54.
Date of wedding
1935
Place of wedding
The synagogue of Dresden [the synagogue was built in 1840 by Gottfried Semper and destroyed on 9th November 1938]
Practice\Profession\Occupation
Unknown
Date of Expulsion
02/08/1939
Target of Expulsion
Poland
Date of Death
Unknown
Place of Death
Unknown
Other comments
The name of her father was Berl Bernhard Weinsieder (Jewish) and he died the 7.4.1930. (His grave is on the new Jewish cemetery in Dresden)
Anna's mother was Meta Weinsieder, née Adlerstein, born the 8.12.1862 in Kolomea. At the moment before Anna and Simon Zwecher married (in 1935), Anna and her mother lived in Grunaer Str. 7, 3th floor. On the list of the census in 1939 Anna's mother lived in Holbeinstraße 11. In 1940 Meta Weinsieder had to move in a "Judenhaus" (house only for Jews), Cranachstraße 6. She was transported the 11.8.1942 to Theresienstadt (with the transport V/4) and died in the ghetto on 9.7.1944.
Anna had also a sister named Jetty, which after marriage was named Jetty Bomse (Bomsl). On the file-cards is noted: "Jetty Bomse / Buenos Aires, Argentinen" .... Maybe she emigrated?
The husband of Jetty was maybe the merchant Viktor Bomse (Bomsl), born in Padwoloczyska (Poland). He lived in Dresden since the 7.1.1920. In 1935 his address was also Grunaer Straße 7, 3th floor. He had a Jewish wife and 2 children, one of them was a son named Gerhard.
Documents
No documents
Pictures
No pictures
First name
Bernhard
Last name
Zwecher
Birthdate
08/01/1939
Relative
Simon's & Anna's son
Place of birth
Dresden
Address
Ziegelstraße 54
Date of Expulsion
02/08/1939
Target of Expulsion
Poland
Date of Death
Unknown
Place of Death
Unknown
Other comments
Named on his grandfather name (the father of his mother), who passed away in 1930.
Documents
No documents
Pictures
No pictures
