Property owner and deportee

Kurt Reichenbach

Born 26 May 1889 · forced from Halberstadt 12 April 1942

A Reichenbach merchant named in the property record and on Halberstadt’s memorial to the deported.

Kurt held Martiniplan 10 in his own name in 1921. A family chart places him as another son of Adolf and Goldine, though no vital record documents the relationship directly.

The original deportation list records Kurt at Dominikanerstraße 23. He was forced from Halberstadt on 12 April 1942 with Paula and Hans Wollenberg and taken through the Magdeburg collection camp. Their train departed on 14 April and was recorded in Warsaw on 16 April.

Yad Vashem item 6719646 preserves a parallel three-page Halberstadt deportee list. Frame 2 records Kurt at Dominikanerstraße 23 and also records Paula and Hans Wollenberg together at Westendorf 15, corroborating the entries already read from the original transport list.

The Federal Archives memorial book identifies Warsaw Ghetto as the transport destination. No surviving record now in the archive documents Kurt’s subsequent individual fate. His name is carved on Halberstadt’s Domplatz memorial.

Sources

Records and testimony

  • Land-register extract
  • Original 14 April 1942 transport list, page 14, row 176
  • Yad Vashem item 6719646, frame 2 of 3, file 379, record group O.41
  • Bundesarchiv Gedenkbuch en947915
  • Berend Lehmann Museum panel
  • Domplatz memorial

Evidence note

The transport destination is documented as Warsaw Ghetto, but Kurt’s subsequent individual fate is not. Family charts and shared property records place him in Paul’s immediate family, although no vital record yet names the relationship directly.

Kurt Reichenbach among Halberstadt’s memorial names

Domplatz · a name returned to the city

Kurt Reichenbach on Halberstadt’s memorial

The family photographed Kurt’s memorial entry during its return to Halberstadt. The stone brings his name into the city’s public space without supplying an ending the evidence cannot support.

The transport to Warsaw is documented; no surviving record in this archive names what happened to Kurt after arrival.