Margarete's husband; Armin's brother-in-law
Siegfried Lewinsky
Crone an der Brahe, 17 February 1882 – Auschwitz, 1943
aged 61 when deported
Siegfried Lewinsky was born on 17 February 1882 in Crone an der Brahe, in West Prussia, now Koronowo in Poland.
He married Margarete Gerechter, Armin's eldest sister, and they had a son, Harry. In the war he was made to work in a factory in Berlin.
He was deported to Auschwitz with Margarete on 19 February 1943, two days after his sixty-first birthday, and murdered.
“Here lived Siegfried Lewinsky. Born 1882. Fate unknown.”
The Stolperstein in the pavement opposite Freienhufener Straße 2, Großräschen, laid on 22 March 2011. All nine stones
Before 1933
His family, the Lewinskys, were in Graudenz when his engagement to Margarete was announced in 1909. Their son Harry was born in 1911.
1938 – 1945
In 1939 he and Margarete lived at Bötzowstraße 16 in Berlin. In 1942 and 1943 he was a forced labourer at a firm in Schöneberg. By then they were lodging with Edith at Choriner Straße 53.
On 19 February 1943 they were deported to Auschwitz. A month later his last wages, 16.75 Reichsmarks, were confiscated.
After
In 2011 a Stolperstein was laid for him in Großräschen, opposite the family store.
Close family
- WifeMargarete Lewinsky, née Gerechter 1887 – 1943
- SonDr. Harry David Lewinsky 1911 – after 1989
In Armin's films
- Film 5, überlebt in KanadaWith them go his sister Margarete and her husband Siegfried, and his sister Frida, her husband Erich and their daughter Eva.
What we don't know
We don't know the day he died, or much about his life before the war.
The recordsthe archive's notes, dates and sources
Life events
| Date | Place | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 1909 | Graudenz / Groß-Räschen | Engaged to Margarete Gerechter BT |
| 17 May 1939 | Berlin, Bötzowstr. 16 | Census address MTL |
| 1942-43 | Berlin-Schöneberg | Forced labourer at Dr. Georg Seibt AG, Feurigstr. 54 BLHA-22898 |
| 19 Feb 1943 | → Auschwitz | Deported (29th Osttransport, list no. 720; Kennkarte A187567) STAT, GB |
| 23 Mar 1943 | Berlin | His final wages of 16.75 RM confiscated BLHA-22898 |
| 22 Mar 2011 | Großräschen | Stolperstein opposite Freienhufener Str. 2 ("Siegfried Lewinski, JG. 1882, Schicksal unbekannt") STOL |
Sources
- BLHA 36A (II) 22898
- Gedenkbuch de1105528
- 29th Osttransport list
The small letters after an entry name its source: GB the German Memorial Book, JM the Joods Monument, AROL the Arolsen Archives, GENI the family tree on Geni, STOL the stones.