Daniel Salomon and his wife Fanny lived at Wahmstraße 42.

In a police administration file we also find three hand-written applications by the Salomon couple among the many documents by which the Jewish population had to adopt the compulsory additional first names of “Sara” and “Israel” at the end of 1938. As only one other family from Lübeck attempted to do, they tried to apply for a change of their first names, in order to avoid the adoption of the compulsory additional names of “Sara” and “Israel”:

„Lübeck, 29 September 38
To the Reichsinnen-Ministerium! (To the German home secretary)
Referring to the new Reichsgesetz (law) on changing Jewish first names, I request on behalf of my wife, who is now called Fanny, that she may adopt the name ‘Frommet’, and on my behalf that I may adopt the name ‘Dan’.
I kindly ask permission for this change of names.
Yours faithfully,
D.Salomon
Lübeck  Wahmstraße 42 ptr.”

The names applied for, Frommet and Dan, were on the list of so-called Jewish first names, which had been published by the decree of 17 August 1938. The Salomon couple’s application first worked its way through the official process, as the application forms for the change of names were completed and forwarded. But then two different statements followed. First Daniel Salomon wrote:

„Lübeck, 26 June 1939
To the Lübeck police station,
Herewith I want to inform you that I want to withdraw my and my wife’s application for the change of our names, the reason is that I shall emigrate soon.

Yours faithfully,
Daniel Israel Salomon
Wahmstraße 42”

The hand-written note on the letter of 3 July ‘39 by the chief of police demands that Daniel and Fanny Salomon make a statement adopting the additional first names of “Israel” and “Sara” respectively and that they also inform the registrar’s office of their hometown Kiel about it.

„Lübeck, 10 July 1939
To the police headquarters, Lübeck
Referring to your letter of 26 June 1939 I inform you that I have adopted the first name Sara. As proof I have received my identity card, which I have already presented at the police headquarters a few days ago. I have also informed the registrar’s office of Kiel, as has my husband, about both our additional first names.
I also want to note that my husband has written his application for the change of names in September last year. As we both have meanwhile received our identity cards, he has withdrawn the same at the police station.
Yours faithfully,
Frau Fanny Sara Salomon
Wahmstraße 42”

On the back there is the annotation by the chief of police that the matter is settled as the identity cards have been received by the Salomons.

Fanny and Daniel Salomon were unsuccessful in their efforts to emigrate. They were both deported to Riga on 6 December 1941. At that time Fanny Salomon was 60 years old, her husband 67. Both of them would have been most likely among the people, who were shot at Bikernieki Forest near Riga in March.

References in Addition to Standard Reference Materials:

• Adressbücher und Meldekartei der Hansestadt Lübeck (Address and Registration Records of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck)Archiv der Hansestadt Lübeck, Staatliche Polizeiverwaltung 109, 110, 123, 124
• Buch der Erinnerung, Die ins Baltikum deportierten deutschen, österreichischen und tschechoslowakischen Juden, bearbeitet von Wolfgang Scheffler und Diana Schulle, München 2003
• Memorbuch zum Gedenken an die jüdischen, in der Schoa umgekommenen Schleswig-Holsteiner und Schleswig-Holsteinerinnen, hrsg. V. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, Hamburg 1996
• Yad Vashem, The Central Database of Shoah Victims Names

Heidemarie Kugler-Weiemann, April 2008

Translation:  Martin Harnisch and Glenn Sellick, 2010