Kurt David Marcus

State:
No sufficient connection to Saarland
Gender:
male
Maiden name:
Not known
So called:
-
Alias:
-
Date of birth:
21. September 1906
Birthplace:
Breslau, Schlesien
Residence:
Not known
Place of persecution:
Not known
Date of death:
28. August 1942
Deceased in:
KL Auschwitz
LEA file number:
Spouse:
Ilse Meyer (Marcus)
Date and place of marriage:
Not known
Mother:
Not known
Father:
hidden*
Siblings:
1 more*
Children:
Not known
*Hidden due to legal regulations

Vita

(GB-BA) Marcus, Kurt David
geboren am 21. September 1906
in Breslau/Schlesien
wohnhaft in Breslau
Internierung/Inhaftierung 10. Mai 1940 - 15. Mai 1940, Belgien, Inhaftierung
Le Vigeant, Internierungslager
Deportation ab Drancy
28. August 1942, Auschwitz, Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager
(USHMM)
Ilse Marcus (originally Meyer) is the daughter of Berthold and Elfriede Meyer. She was born on June 23, 1914 in Breslau, Germany, and her younger brother Ernst was born in 1918. Berthold Meyer owned a prosperous clothing store, and after Ilse married economist Kurt Marcus in 1935, the young couple lived with Ilse's parents in an apartment above the store. On the night of Kristallnacht, gangs broke the window of the family store, and looters carried away the merchandise. The following morning, storm troopers entered the apartment and arrested Berthold, Ernst and Kurt. They were released three weeks later after promising to emigrate from Germany. The family hoped to go to the United States, but as they had very high visa application numbers, they decided to book tickets on the St. Louis for Havana where they could wait until they received permission to enter the United States. Kurt's brother had already gone to Havana, and they planned to meet him there. When the ship arrived in Havana on May 27, 1939, the Cuban government prohibited the passengers from disembarking. Kurt's brother approached the ship on a small boat to wave and shout out greetings. After the ship was forced to return to Europe, the Marcus and Meyer families disembarked in Belgium and spent the next year as refugees in Brussels. However, after Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940, the Belgians arrested Berthold, Ernst and Kurt as enemy aliens and deported them to the St. Cyprien camp in southern France. They later were transferred to the Gurs concentration camp where they were interned as Jews. The women were able to correspond with them through mid-1942. (...) Ilse's father perished in Majdanek, and her brother and husband died in Auschwitz.
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Notes

Data are hidden due to legal regulations