Location
Alt-Moabit 85 a
District
Moabit
Born
02 January 1860 in Schwerin
Deportation
on 29 January 1943
to
Theresienstadt
Dead
14 February 1943 im Ghetto Theresienstadt
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Stolperstein für Jacob Stargardt. Foto: OTFW.
Jacob Stargardt was a merchant born on 2 January 1860 in Schwerin. His wife Clara, née Lindenfeld, was born in 1871 in Kassel. They had two children: a daughter, Dorothea (born in 1896), and a son, Erich (born in 1898). In the 1930s the family lived at Alt-Moabit 85a.
The family’s declaration of assets shows that Jacob and Clara Stargardt’s last place of residence was the old people’s home at Iranische Strasse 2, where they probably moved in 1941. The Stargardts were forced to conclude a so-called ‘home purchasing contract’ for their resettlement in Theresienstadt, involving payment of 6250 Reichmarks, supposedly to cover all their board and lodging until they turned 85. On 29 January 1943 Jacob and Clara Stargardt were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on the “84th transport of the elderly”. Jacob Stargardt died just 16 days later, on 14 February 1943; his wife Clara died a few days later.
After Jacob and Clara Stargardt had moved into the old people’s home on Iranische Strasse, their children, Erich and Dorothea, were probably forced to move out of their former home and rent accommodation as subtenants. Erich Stargardt worked – most likely as a forced labourer – for the Kurt Seydel company in Bülow Strasse in Berlin. He and his sister Dorothea were deported during the Nazis’ March 1943 “factory campaign” to Auschwitz, on the “31st transport to the East”, and murdered.
The family’s declaration of assets shows that Jacob and Clara Stargardt’s last place of residence was the old people’s home at Iranische Strasse 2, where they probably moved in 1941. The Stargardts were forced to conclude a so-called ‘home purchasing contract’ for their resettlement in Theresienstadt, involving payment of 6250 Reichmarks, supposedly to cover all their board and lodging until they turned 85. On 29 January 1943 Jacob and Clara Stargardt were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on the “84th transport of the elderly”. Jacob Stargardt died just 16 days later, on 14 February 1943; his wife Clara died a few days later.
After Jacob and Clara Stargardt had moved into the old people’s home on Iranische Strasse, their children, Erich and Dorothea, were probably forced to move out of their former home and rent accommodation as subtenants. Erich Stargardt worked – most likely as a forced labourer – for the Kurt Seydel company in Bülow Strasse in Berlin. He and his sister Dorothea were deported during the Nazis’ March 1943 “factory campaign” to Auschwitz, on the “31st transport to the East”, and murdered.