Albert Gassmann

Born15.11.1863
Poland, Schlesien, Gleiwitz
Died10.09.1943
Poland, Auschwitz concentration camp
FatherHeimann (Chaim) Gassmann (20.06.1830 – 24.04.1906)
MotherJohanna (Schorel) Olschowski (ca 1831 – 13.12.1907)
PartnerSelma Guttmann (11.08.1879 – 10.09.1943)

Married 02.09.1900

Source

Children:

Kurt David Gassmann (14.06.1901 – 31.03.1944)

Franz Karl Gassmann (08.08.1902 – 2000)

Herbert Heinrich Gassmann (24.03.1918 – )

Notes

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Birth announcement in
Der Oberschlesische Wanderer,
Jg. 36, No. 47, 24 November 1863,
page 1
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Advertisement in
Technischer General-Anzeiger für
den Oberschlesischen Industrie-Bezirk,
Jg. 3, No. 15, 1 May 1897, page 5


Factory owner; lived in Breslau at Gartenstrasse 51 in 1920 when he reported the death of Simon Davidsohn and in ca 1930 (next door to Simon Staub), and later at Viktoriastrasse 104.

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Annulment of German nationality


Albert and Selma and their son Kurt fled to the Netherlands, living at Beethovenstraat 103, Amsterdam by early 1941, around the corner from his brother Richard Gassmann.

Albert and Selma were deported from Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz concentration camp on 07.09.1943; where they were murdered on arrival.

Sources (click here for generic source information)

Kaethe Danziger (geb. Halberstaedter)’s "Bertha Gassmann's cousins" notes;
UN;
sbc.org.pl - Der Oberschlesische Wanderer, Jg. 36, No. 47, 24 November 1863;
sbc.org.pl - Technischer General-Anzeiger für den Oberschlesischen Industrie-Bezirk, Jg. 3, No. 15, 1 May 1897;
cbj.jhi.pl - address and date of birth in ca 1930;
mappingthelives.org - emigration to the Netherlands, deportation and death;
joodsmonument.nl - Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands;
yadvashem.org.

This record was last updated on 01.06.2024 at 20:47.