Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
192 (2009) 131-138
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
Abstract:
Itzkewitsch was born in 1891 in Lipsko (then in Russia) and came to Germany as a POW in World War I. After the war, he remained in Germany and worked as a cobbler in Ehmen (later incorporated in the city of Wolfsburg). He lived with a non-Jewish woman, but they did not marry because of his lack of papers, and they had a son. After the passage of the Nuremberg Laws, he was arrested and imprisoned for "Rassenschande". He tried to argue that he was only partly Jewish, but Nazi anthropological experts declared him to be a full Jew. The court also investigated the couple's sexual history with great thoroughness. His letters to his wife and son show initial optimism which soon turned to despair. He asked to emigrate, but the Nazi bureaucracy heaped obstacles in his path. In November 1938 he was transferred to Buchenwald, and in July 1941 he was sent to the "healing and care institution" Sonnenstein and gassed on arrival.
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