Lydia Dawosky

Lydia Dawosky – Breite Straße 19

Lydia Dawosky was born Lydia Friedrich in Hamburg on October 24, 1870. On May 16, 1900, she married Iwan Dawosky from Celle, son of the „poor doctor“. He was head post office secretary, also wrote freelance for the Cellesche Zeitung as "Hans Cellensis" and did voluntary work at the Bomann Museum. Their only child, daughter Margarate, born on April 8, 1901, died at the age of 17. The couple, who still lived in Bahnhofstrasse at the time, withdrew more and more. Only a few friends remained with them, even after 1933, when the pressure on the Jewish population became ever greater. Like some other, mainly older, Jews, the Dawoskys remained in Celle. They now lived at Breite Straße 19.

Iwan Dawosky died of natural causes on January 24, 1943. Like his daughter, he was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Celle. One month later, on February 25, Lydia Dawosky was arrested by the Gestapo. She was accused of being in possession of meat stamps, which she should not have had as a Jew. She was sent to the court prison in Celle. What followed is not clear: On the one hand, there is information that she was released to the Gestapo on March 5, and on the other that she was deported to Hamburg on March 16. It is conceivable that she had to stay at another place in Celle from March 5 to 16, probably the "Jews' house", Im Kreise, but it is also conceivable that she was only taken directly from the court prison to Hamburg on March 16. She was probably accommodated there in the Jewish old people's home, which by then was serving as a "Jews' house". She died in Hamburg on April 20, 1943.