Isidor Ljublinski and his family lived at Balauerfohr 9 from 1932.
Isidor Ljublinski came from Lubraniec/Lubranitz, about 50 km south of Toru´n/Thorn, to Lübeck in 1917 together with his wife Tauba, née Kirschbaum, and their two sons Max Hermann (1912) and Harald (1914).
Isidor Ljublinski was a tailor, and was regarded as stateless. Something is not clear about his name and date of birth: Isidor was also called Isser, sometimes Isaac; Ljublinski (his name as per the registry) was simplified to Lublinski, Lubianski, and finally to Lubinski. Often his age is given instead of his date of birth the 23rd of December 1883, even on his registration card. Presumably he had no official documents, which he could produce at the time of registering.
During the first years in Lübeck the family moved several times, then from 1924 to 1932 they lived at Marlesgrube 50, home of the Lexandrowitz family, and in 1932 at Balauerfohr 9.
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After attending St. Lorenz Knaben-Mittelschule Max Hermann Lubinski completed his training as an electrical precision engineer and emigrated to Palestine in 1934, his brother Harald followed him in 1936. Tauba Lubinski managed to escape to England even as late as March 1939.
In their letters to Shanghai and Palestine Bertha and Dora Lexandrowitz mention frequently the Lubinskis: They enquire about the "two Lubinskis" in Palestine (p. 50), report Mrs. Lublinski’s emigration (p. 53), give regards from Mr. L. (p. 59), mention that "Max Lubinskis parents-in-law" had written to Mr. L. (p. 71) and report that they had received a postcard from Max Lub. (p.84) They wrote in their letter to Shanghai dated the 15th of February 1940:
"Mr. Lubinski is moving to the “Asyl”, where he got a room in Buschner’s flat. He and old Lambertz will share the room.” Before moving to the “Asyl”” he lived with him at Mrs. Taschi’s." (p.76)
(Translator’s note: The building next to the synagogue was called “das Asyl”. It was owned by the Jewish community and used as a home for the elderly and homeless.) Buschner, who also lived there with his family, had to give up one of his rooms.
In February 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Lubinski had to move from their flat in Balauerfohr and first found accommodation at Sophienstraße 10 in the home of Simson Carlebach. From October 1939 to February 1940 Isidor Lubinski was registered as living at Königstraße 116 with Rosa Taschimowitz (Taschi), then at St.-Annen-Straße 11. The building next to the synagogue at St.-Annen-Str.11 served as a home for old and homeless people. Heinrich Buschner, who is mentioned above, was the (non-Jewish) caretaker of the Jewish Community Lübeck. While he was cleaning the surrounding area of the synagogue, which was destroyed on the 9th of November, he suffered from a nervous breakdown and made a speech against the Gestapo. A parish pastor of the neighbouring church of St. Giles/St. Aegidienkirche succeeded in getting him out of the hands of the Gestapo and worked to have him admitted to the Stecknitz mental home. Nathan Lambertz, b. 1857, who is also mentioned above, was a cattle dealer in Lübeck. He was deported to Theresienstadt in July 1942, where he lost his life.
In October 1941 Isser Lubinski applied for a trip to Hamburg, to be a witness at the wedding of Esther Daicz and Rudolf Bär. He wanted to stay overnight with the Mularski family who also came from Lübeck. However he didn’t pick up his permit. (Archiv der Hansestadt Lübeck, Staatliche Polizeiverwaltung 121)
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At that time Isidor Ljublinski had already lost his means of making a living as a tailor. After the November 1938 pogrom the Lübeck Trade Corporation deleted his name from the register of tradesmen and demanded that he give back his tradesman membership card.
Isidor Ljublinski was deported to Riga on the 6th of December 1941. The circumstances of his death are not known. If the murderous conditions at Camp Jungfernhof didn’t cause his death, he would have been among those, who were shot in either February or March of 1942 in the Bikernieki Forest.
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, 121, 124, 126
- Buch der Erinnerung, Die ins Baltikum deportierten deutschen, österreichischen und tschechoslowakischen Juden, bearbeitet von Wolfgang Scheffler und Diana Schulle, München 2003
- Datenpool JSHD der Forschungsstelle "Juden in Schleswig-Holstein" an der Universität Flensburg
- Kugler-Weiemann, Heidemarie / Peperkorn, Hella (Hrsg.): "Hoffentlich klappt alles zum Guten ", Die Briefe der jüdischen Schwestern Bertha und Dora Lexandrowitz (1939 - 1941 ), Neumünster 2000
- Lübecker Nachrichten vom 14.6.1990, Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit
- Memorbuch zum Gedenken an die jüdischen, in der Schoa umgekommenen Schleswig-Holsteiner und Schleswig-Holsteinerinnen, hrsg. V. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, Hamburg 1996
- Albrecht Schreiber, Zwischen Davidstern und Doppeladler, Illustrierte Chronik der Juden in Moisling und Lübeck, Lübeck 1992
- Yad Vashem, The Central Database of Shoah Victims Names
- Zeitzeugengespräche (Conversations with contemporaries of the Ljublinski family)
Heidemarie Kugler-Weiemann, 2008
Translated by Martin Harnisch and Glenn Sellick, 2010
Installation at the location
Inscription of the installation:
HIER WOHNTE
ISIDOR LJUBLINSKI
JG. 1883
DEPORTIERT 1941
ERMORDET IN
RIGA
installation
12 April 2008