Location
Schwedter Straße 22
District
Mitte
Born
15 April 1893 in Tarnów
Deportation
in August 1942
Murdered
31 July 1942
Netty Isak, née Gehl, was born on 15 April 1883 in Tarnów, Poland. She and her husband Ignatz moved to Berlin with their daughter, Erna, in 1910.
In Berlin, the Isak family grew: Siegfried (‘Sigi’) was born in 1914, and a third child, Ruth, was born five years later, in 1919.
The family lived at Schwedter Straße 22 in Berlin-Mitte. They ran a grocery store.
Sigi Isak described his family as conservative. Although they attended synagogue, he did not consider them religious. They observed Jewish holidays, kept kosher, and celebrated Bar Mitzvahs. Sigi said that the family was very close.
The Gestapo arrested Ignatz Isak and took him to Oranienburg concentration camp in September 1939 . He was murdered there on 11 February 1940.
In 1941, after burying her husband’s ashes, Netty Isak left Berlin. She voluntarily went to Bochnia to visit her sister-in-law and see her son Sigi, according to the affidavit and interviews with Sigi Isak that are included in the claim for compensation. Elsewhere in the compensation documents, however, there is a note indicating that Netty Isak was deported. By 1942, Bochnia had become a ghetto town. In August 1942, the older and less able-bodied inhabitants were informed that they were to be “deported”. Within a few kilometres from Bochnia, mass graves had been prepared for the deportees, who were shot. There are no records, but is is highly probable that Netty Isak was among them. The able-bodied were deported to Belzec death camp.
In Berlin, the Isak family grew: Siegfried (‘Sigi’) was born in 1914, and a third child, Ruth, was born five years later, in 1919.
The family lived at Schwedter Straße 22 in Berlin-Mitte. They ran a grocery store.
Sigi Isak described his family as conservative. Although they attended synagogue, he did not consider them religious. They observed Jewish holidays, kept kosher, and celebrated Bar Mitzvahs. Sigi said that the family was very close.
The Gestapo arrested Ignatz Isak and took him to Oranienburg concentration camp in September 1939 . He was murdered there on 11 February 1940.
In 1941, after burying her husband’s ashes, Netty Isak left Berlin. She voluntarily went to Bochnia to visit her sister-in-law and see her son Sigi, according to the affidavit and interviews with Sigi Isak that are included in the claim for compensation. Elsewhere in the compensation documents, however, there is a note indicating that Netty Isak was deported. By 1942, Bochnia had become a ghetto town. In August 1942, the older and less able-bodied inhabitants were informed that they were to be “deported”. Within a few kilometres from Bochnia, mass graves had been prepared for the deportees, who were shot. There are no records, but is is highly probable that Netty Isak was among them. The able-bodied were deported to Belzec death camp.