Salomon Falkenstein

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Salomon Falkenstein, birth 2 Aug 1841, died 5 Apr 1912, occupation: Cigarenfabrikant to:
Bertha Moses, birth 29 Sep 1852, died 10 Jul 1915
Der Hochneukircher Zigarrenfabrikant Salomon Falkenstein war verheiratet mit Bertha Moses, vermutlich eine Tochter des Metzgers Moses Levi in Hochneukirch-Otzenrath und der Helena geb. Meyer.

1) Hermann Falkenstein, birth 24 OKT 1883 Hochneukirch, Duitsland, died 2 Jul 1943 Sobibor, Polen, occupation: Koopman, confectiebedrijf in Vlissingen to:
Henriette Fuldauer, alias: Henni, Henny, birth 12 Apr 1888 Dinslaken, Duitsland, died 2 Jul 1943 Sobibor, Polen, daughter of Salomon Fuldauer and Lisette Wolfsheimer
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FALKENSTEIN, HENRIETTE "HENNI" geb. FULDAUER

Geburtsdatum/Geburtsort: 12.4.1888/ Dinslaken

Familienstand: Verheiratet mit Hermann Falkenstein

Internierung: Am 18.6.1942 in Westerbork eingeliefert

Deportation: 29.6.1943 von Westerbork in das Vernichtungslager Sobibor

Todesdatum/Todesort: 2.7.1943 Vernichtungslager Sobibor

Opfergruppe: Jèudinnen und Juden

Staatsangehèorigekeit: Deutsch

Beruf: Hausfrau

Wohnort in Dinslaken: Weseler Str. 165 (1888-???)

Quellen: Bundesarchiv Gedenkbuch Online-Fassung vom 10.4.2013; Joods Monument Datenbank; Adressbuch Dinslaken 1935; Besuch ITS Bad Arolsen vom 12.9.2013, T/D Akten Korrespondenzakte Nr. 594300, ITS Digitales Archiv.
Huisgenoten: gezin Julius Simon en hun dochter Lieselotte.

Bijdragen '42 - '43 Eerste helft fiat. Maakt bezwaar tegen aanslag 2e helft op grond van financièele omstandigheden. (NIOD) Betaalt voor 42/43 11,75 (NIG nr. 54)

In het SAD komt Hermann niet als gezinshoofd voor op de gezinskaarten. Hun namen komen voor op een politielijst van eind augustus van dat jaar. (SAD, Politiearchief nr. 843, doos 502)

De Joodse Raad, afdeling Emigratie, stuurt op 27-3-42 bericht naar Deventer dat Herman I. Falkenstein zich op 11 mei met zijn vrouw om 11.30 uur moet melden. (NIG nr. 84)

Hermann en Henriette, afkomstig uit Recklinghausen. Zij waren al in mei 1937 vanuit Dortmund naar Deventer gekomen. Zij woonden al op Brinkgreverweg 89 voordat het gezin Simon daar zelf is gaan wonen. Eind december '38 vertrokken zij naar Vlissing en, waar ze een damesconfectiezaak begonnen. In 1942 werden zij door de bezetter gedwongen hun winkel te sluiten. Ze trokken in bij hun dochter in Deventer, de stad waar zij later onderdoken. In 1943 werd hun onderduikadres verraden.

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Meinema FAMILY
Meinema Henk (1912 - 1976 )
Meinema Mimi (1907 - 1967 ), WIFE

Rescue Story

Meinema, Henk
Meinema-Wrusch, Mimi

In 1939, Hermann Falkenstein (b. 24.10.1888) fled Germany to the Netherlands and settled in Roermond (prov. Limburg). That same year, he married Henriette Fuldauer (b. 12.4.1888), also originally from Germany.
In August 1942, the Falkensteins, now with their infant son Emil-Hans, who was born in September 1941, were expecting orders to report at the local railway station, as a first step to leave for æwork in the East&Aelig;. Not waiting for the day to arrive , they packed up and left for Henriette&Aelig;s parents in Amsterdam. Some days later, on August 25, 1942, the Dutch police came to the Falkenstein home, intending to arrest them but no one was there.
The Falkensteins were able to locate hiding places for themselves as well as another one for their son Emil-Hans. At the beginning of 1943, Emil-Hans was taken to Henk and Mimi Meinema in the city, a childless couple in their thirties. Henk wa s a window dresser. They lived in a blue-collar neighborhood on the second floor of an apartment building, with neighbors all around. Taking in a Jewish child involved a big personal risk. The sudden appearance of a toddler was luckily not questio ned by the neighbors. Henk and Mimi accepted the boy with much love. As Emil-Hans&Aelig; name sounded too German, they called him Eddy. Eddy in turn called Henk and Mimi Meinema, æmama&Aelig; and æpapa&Aelig; and considered them his own parents. It was arranged wit h Eddy&Aelig;s real parents, who were in hiding close-by, that they could visit, but only when the curtains in the Meinemas&Aelig; apartment were not drawn open. Once during such a planned visit, they were arrested and immediately deported to Sobibor, wher e they were murdered in July 1943.
Eddy stayed on with the Meinemas until the liberation in May 1945.
After the war, the Meinemas were ready to adopt Eddy, but a surviving aunt and uncle asked to raise him. The separation from the Meinemas was an extremely traumatic experience for Eddy. He missed them tremendously and could not get used to the ne w environment with his aunt and uncle. He was subsequently sent to an orphanage and contact with the Meinemas was lost. At the age of 20, however, Eddy returned to live with the Meinemas and then kept in close contact with them until their deaths.

On October 26, 2008, Yad Vashem recognized Henk Meinema and Mimi Meinema-Wrunch as Righteous Among the Nations.

http://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi-bin/epidat?sel=e19&function=Ins&jahrv=1912
1883 wurde Salomons Sohn Hermann geboren, der wie seine Brèuder als Soldat im Ersten Weltkrieg diente. Der Kaufmann lebte in Recklinghausen, wo er auch dem Gemeindevorstand angehèorte. 1934 zog er mit seiner Frau Henni geb. Fuldauer aus Dinslake n und den drei Kindern Hilde (geb. 1911), Liselotte (geb. 1914) und Rolf (geb. 1917) nach Dortmund, 1937 fluechteten sie sich in die Niederlande, von wo Hermann Falkenstein und seine Frau 1943 nach Sobibor deportiert und ermordet wurden. Seine Kin der konnten rechtzeitig emigrieren.

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