Memorial Herrmann Augsburg

On January 23, 2019, a memorial pole for the HERRMANN family was installed at Völkstraße 33 in Augsburg.

"Lived here
Josef Herrmann
Born on 5-8-1884 in Hainsfarht
Deported on 2-4-1942 to Piaski
Murdered

Cilli Herrmann (born Stern)
Born on 7-5-1894 in Augsburg
Deported on 2-4-1942 to Piaski
Murdered

Margot Herrmann
Born on 23-5-1921 in Augsburg
Deported on 2-4-1942 to Piaski
Murdered

Trude Herrmann
Born on 11-4-1925 in Augsburg
Deported on 2-4-1942 to Piaski
Murdered"

After training as a businessman, Josef opened a "suspension factory" in Augsburg in 1919.
They were devout Jews, strongly involved in the religious community.
Yosef headed the Israelite Men's Association and was deputy director of the synagogue and cemetery.
During the pogrom of November 1938, he was arrested by the Gestapo and held in the police prison.
After the pogrom, the Nazi authorities forced him to give up his business.

When the war broke out, the persecution measures became increasingly oppressive
the family tried to emigrate to England. The children were registered for transport to Great Britain, but ultimately preferred to stay with their parents.
In January 1940, the family was forced to leave their apartment on Völkstrasse and move to a so-called 'Jewish house' at Hermannstrasse 10.
In 1941, Cilli and Margot had to do forced labor in the balloon factory for the arms industry. They were forced to wear the yellow star and were now marked by everyone as 'enemies of the people' and exposed to contempt.
The emigration ban of 1941 put them in a permanent trap.
In March 1942, Josef and his family were listed for deportation.

On April 2, 1942, the transport went via the Milbertshofen camp near Munich to occupied Poland. The destination was the Piaski transit ghetto, near Lublin, where about 6,000 local Jews had been herded into a fenced ghetto.
There was no water supply or sewerage and only one well with drinking water. There was famine and yet they had to do ground, garden and road maintenance work in groups every day.
Either the Jews died a miserable death there, or they were deported to an extermination camp "Aktion Reinhardt".
No place or date of death is known for the Herrmann family.
(Gedenkbuch Augsburg)

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Wim Wouters