Dortmund chain factory - Siegfried Bastheim

Siegfried Bastheim was born in Hofgeismar on January 5, 1877, to parents Simon and Sara Bastheim, née Heilbrunn, who ran a shop for agricultural supplies at Petristraße 1 in Hofgeismar. Siegfried Bastheim never met his father. He died a few months before he was born. After completing elementary school, Siegfried Bastheim attended a mechanical engineering school and became an engineer.  Around 1910 he moved to Dortmund and founded the  Dortmunder Kettenfabrik Ingenieur Siegfried Bastheim“ at Münsterstraße 259. In 1921, Simon Bastheim married Ernestine (Erna) Sachs from Breslau. The couple had three children - Paul Werner, born on 28.01.1924,  Johanna, born on 11.01.1926 and Marianne, born on 07.03.1927. The family lived from 1929 in their own house An den Hörder Bäumen 18, an elegant villa district in Hörde, together with Erna Bastheim's mother, Anna Sachs (born 1853). After the company went bankrupt in 1932, the family moved to Ende and lived on Ahlenberg (Herdecke). After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Siegfried Bastheim prepared the family's emigration. In January 1934, they emigrated to the Netherlands and settled in The Hague. After the occupation of Holland, the family had to move to Bussum. In the summer of 1942, the family was separated. Mother Erna, son Paul-Werner and daughter Johanna were interned in the Westerbork police transit camp. Father Siegfried and daughter Marianne were taken to the Asterdorp ghetto in the north of Amsterdam. Ernestine Bastheim was deported to Auschwitz on August 10, 1942 with her son Paul Werner and her daughter Johanna, where they died. Siegfried Bastheim and his daughter Marianne were deported to Sobibor 10 months later, on June 1, 1943, and murdered there.