Minna Wolf, née Grünebaum

Date of Birth:
14.11.1890, Hellstein/Hesse
Deceased:
Todestag nicht bekannt, Auschwitz

Residencies

Hellstein/Hesse
Augsburg, Bahnhofstraße 18
Augsburg, Hermanstraße 3
Augsburg, Hochfeldstraße 31

Last voluntary residence

Augsburg, Hermanstraße 3

Places of persecution

Deportation
from Augsburg
via Munich-Berg am Laim
to Auschwitz
on 8 or 9 March 1943

Memorial sign

On 3 August 2021, a remembrance post for Minna Wolf was installed at Hermanstraße 3.

Biography
Minna Wolf, née Grünebaum. (Private)

Minna Wolf (nee Grünbaum)

Minna Wolf was born on the 15th of November 1889 in Hessen.1 At that time there was a Jewish community in the village of Hellstein near Frankfurt. She grew up together with three sisters in simple conditions. Her parents had a farm and a kosher butcher shop.2

She married Gustav Wolf3 , and after the death of her husband she moved to her sister Regina in Augsburg.4 At that time she was pregnant, and her daughter was born on the 20th of April 1922, in Augsburg.5

After that, her daughter and she lived together with Regina Landmann and her family. Her sister had married Joseph Landmann and the had three children, Heinz, Irma and Johanna. In the twenties they lived in a flat in the Bahnhofstrasse 18 and moved later to the Hermannstrasse 3.6

Minna Wolf had a shoe shop in Augsburg. The Augsburger „Einwohnerbuch“ population book, of the year 1931 noted the business address as Metzgplatz/Sterngasse 1.7

Landmann family with Minna Wolf standing in the middle, c. 1925. (Private)

Later the business moved. In the Augsburger „Einwohnerbuch“ population book for 1934 the shop shop of Minna Wolf, together with Joseph Landmann, pelts and leatherware,  was found in Ravenspurgerstraße 41.8

According to her nephew Heinz Landmann, she had given up the shoe shop „early.“9 The exact circumstances are not known.

After the increasing daily discrimination of Jewish citizens, Aryanisation, expropriation measures and applications of violence, her daughter Anne Auguste was able to be brought to safety in England. This was on the 3rd of August 1939 with a childrens` transport.10 She later settled in the USA. The rest of the Augsburger family managed to flee to the USA in 1939.

Minna Wolf's shoe shop, Metzgplatz/Sterngasse 1. (Private)

Minna Wolf was the only family member who was forced to remain in Augsburg. Until the beginning of the Second World War she did not receive a permit to leave the country.11 Thus Hermanstrasse 3 can be seen asher last voluntary place of residence.

Between the 10th of November 1941 and the 3rd ofMarch 1943, she had to work in the Augsburger Ballonfabrik as forced labour.12

Bayern`s deportations list refers to the fact that Minna Wolf was deported from Augsburg in March 1943. Her last residence address was given as Hochfeldstrasse 31.13

Before she was deported, she gave a suitcase with the rest of her belongings to Mr. and Mrs. Hans, who lived in Ravenspurgerstrasse 41. This was a Christian married couple who owned the business premises there. They stored the suitcase until after the war.

As Heinz Landmann came to Augburg at the end of April 1945 as a soldier of the merican army, his search for his aunt Minna brought him there. He could only receive her suitcase.14

Minna Wolf had been murdered in Auschwitz.15

Maria Kastner

Footnotes
  1. Standesamt Hellstein, Geburtsregisterauszug Minna Wolf. ↩
  2. Archiv USHMM Collection, Henry Landman papers, Series 7, Writings, Biography, S. 23. ↩
  3. Namensangabe der Angehörigen in den USA. ↩
  4. Visual History Archive USC Shoah Foundation, Henry Landman, Interview 16769. (zur Bearbeitung wurde von mir auf meine unveröffentlichte Transkription des Interviews aus dem Jahr 2018 zurückgegriffen). ↩
  5. Gernot Römer (Hg.), „An meine Gemeinde in der Zerstreuung.“ Die Rundbriefe des Augsburger Rabbiners Ernst Jacob 1941–1949 (Material zur Geschichte des Bayerischen Schwaben, Bd. 29), Augsburg 2007, S. 383 (Eintrag: Anne Auguste (Gusti) Wolf, verh. Weil). ↩
  6. Visual History Archive USC Shoah Foundation, Henry Landman, Interview 16769. ↩
  7. Einwohnerbuch der Stadt Augsburg 1931, Augsburg 1931, Eintrag Landmann, Joseph, S. 259. ↩
  8. Einwohnerbuch der Stadt Augsburg 1934, Augsburg 1934, Eintrag Landmann, Joseph. ↩
  9. Visual History Archive USC Shoah Foundation, Henry Landman, Interview 16769. ↩
  10. Gernot Römer, 2007, S. 383 (Eintrag: Anne Auguste (Gusti) Wolf, verh. Weil). ↩
  11. Ebd. ↩
  12. Ebd. ↩
  13. Deportationslisten aus Bayern: Deportation aus Augsburg März 1943, letzte Seite, ganz unten: https://www.statistik-des-holocaust.de/list_ger_bay_43a.html. ↩
  14. Visual History Archive USC Shoah Foundation, Henry Landman, Interview 16769. ↩
  15. Gernot Römer, 2007, S. 383 (Eintrag: Anne Auguste (Gusti) Wolf, verh. Weil). ↩
Sources and literature
Unpublished sources:

Archive USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Collection
– Henry Landman papers, Accession Number: 1997.A.0175.1, RG Number: RG-10.476, https://collections.ushmm.org/search/

Stadtarchiv Augsburg
Meldebögen (MB):
– Joseph Landmann

Standesamt Hellstein

  • Geburtsregisterauszug Minna Wolf
Published sources:

Gernot Römer (Hg.), „An meine Gemeinde in der Zerstreuung.“ Die Rundbriefe des Augsburger Rabbiners Ernst Jacob 1941–1949 (Material zur Geschichte des Bayerischen Schwaben, Bd. 29), Augsburg 2007.

Peter Wolf (Hg.), Spuren. Die jüdischen Schülerinnen und die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus an der Maria-Theresia-Schule Augsburg. Ein Bericht der Projektgruppe Spurensuche des Maria-Theresia-Gymnasiums, Augsburg 2005.