Documents and objects 11
Document / objectPeople loading belongings at the Warsaw UmschlagplatzContext photograph of Jews loading belongings onto trains at the Warsaw Umschlagplatz during the German occupation, dated by the source between 1942 and 1943. It is Warsaw context, not a photograph of the Halberstadt train or of Kurt, Paula or Hans.
Document / objectChildren without homes in the Warsaw ghettoHistorical context photograph of homeless children in the Warsaw ghetto, 1941. The photograph predates the Halberstadt transport and does not show Kurt Reichenbach, Paula Wollenberg or Hans Wollenberg.
Document / objectA second list naming Kurt, Paula and HansYad Vashem frame 2 records Kurt Reichenbach at Dominikanerstraße 23 and Paula and Hans Wollenberg together at Westendorf 15, corroborating their names, birth dates and forced addresses in the original transport evidence. The list corroborates their birth dates and forced addresses before Warsaw. It gives no later death date or place for any of the three.
Document / objectHans and Paula Wollenberg on the transport listPage 15 records Hans Wollenberg at entry 198 and Paula Wollenberg at entry 199, both at Westendorf 15. The list places mother and son on the transport to Warsaw. It gives no later fate for either of them.
Document / objectKurt Reichenbach on the transport listPage 14 records Kurt Reichenbach at entry 176, with Dominikanerstraße 23 as his Halberstadt address. The list places Kurt on the transport to Warsaw. It gives no later fate.
Document / objectJeanette Reichenbach’s asset declaration at Normannenstraße 2Jeanette’s asset declaration records that she had rented half a room in Max Israel Harrwitz’s house from 15 November 1941 for 22.50 RM a month. It also notes that her grandson was already in Brazil with his wife and child.
Document / objectThe Theresienstadt administration recorded Jeanette’s deathThis ghetto death notice records Jeanette Reichenbach née Rosenbaum’s death on 25 October 1942, six weeks after deportation. Camp officials entered “Enteritis acuta — Darmkatarrh” as the cause. The notice fixes the administrative date and wording, but it is not an independent medical account of death under starvation, overcrowding and neglect.
Document / objectFour Stolpersteine name the household at Breite Straße 7These four memorial stones name Fritz, Jeanette, Martha and Werner Reichenbach outside their Wernigerode home. The inscriptions bring the household together at the address where they lived and worked. They are modern memorial texts and do not replace the separate records for each life.
Document / objectKurt Reichenbach among the Domplatz memorial namesKurt Reichenbach among Halberstadt’s memorial names. Daniel photographed the name during the family’s return to Halberstadt. The stone marks Kurt’s removal from the city; it does not add a fate after Warsaw.
Document / objectStolperstein for Jeanette ReichenbachThe stone records Jeanette Reichenbach’s deportation to Theresienstadt and her death there on 25 October 1942. The stone lies outside the Wernigerode house where Jeanette kept the shop. It names her deportation and death, but it does not preserve the half-room and rent recorded in her Berlin papers.
Document / objectStones of Remembrance at Halberstadt CathedralThe Stones of Remembrance beside Halberstadt Cathedral. The memorial names the Jews taken from the city, among them Kurt Reichenbach, Paula Wollenberg and Hans Wollenberg. It does not record what happened to them after Warsaw.