Bernhard Baruch Lump

Bernhard Baruch Lump, born on 29.2.1872 in Wüstensachsen, near Fulda, was the son of the cattle dealer Joel Lump and his wife Hanna, née Höflein.

Bernhard also became a cattle dealer.

Bernhard married Regina Rebecka Kahn, born Dec. 27, 1875, in Bad Homburg in 1902.

The couple had 11 children:

Ludwig (May 24, 1902), Rosette (June 11, 1903), Max (April 8, 1905), Hermann (Dec. 23, 1906), Tilly (May 7, 1908), Lea "Berta" (Feb. 14, 1910), Selma Julchen (May 9, 1912), Leopold (July 8, 1914), Julius (Feb. 3, 1916) and the twins Henny and Hanna (Oct. 30, 1918).

In 1920 the family lived in Fulda at Petersbergerstraße 23.

Regina died on May 23, 1939. Bernhard then moved in with his daughter Rosette, who lived with her husband Leo in Berlin, at Berchtesgadener Straße 35.

The family had moved into the garden house, 2nd floor, in 1938. The apartment had 2 ½ rooms.

They sent their two daughters, Dorothea and Hanna, to England with a Kindertransport in August 1939.

Bernhard Lump was deported to Theresienstadt on December 16, 1942, where he was murdered on May 13, 1943.

Rosette and Leo, with whom Bernhard had lived, were murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 and 1944. The son Leopold had escaped to France, from where he was deported to Majdanek in March 1943 and murdered.

Eight of his children survived the Holocaust.