Moritz Wertheim

Moritz Wertheim was born on March 25, 1880 in Helmarshausen (Hesse). He moved to Stade in 1923 and lived at Teichstrasse 6. As a partner of Gotthelf Friedlaender, he became co-owner of the small banking house Friedlaender & Wertheim in Großen Schmiedestraße.

When the National Socialists came to power, Jewish citizens and their businesses were subjected to ongoing discrimination and repression. The state-organized agitation culminated in boycotts and culminated for the first time in the November pogroms, in which Jewish institutions and businesses were destroyed across the country. On the night of November 9-10, 1938, windows are smashed at the Friedlaender & Wertheim bank and the contents destroyed. After previous unsuccessful attempts to carry out an orderly transfer of ownership, the owners were forced to give up the bank for good.

Moritz Wertheim emigrated to the Netherlands, where he was arrested in 1940. He was taken to Westerbork. The "police transit camp for Jews" there was one of two central Nazi transit camps set up in the Netherlands for the deportation of Dutch and German Jews residing in the Netherlands to other concentration and extermination camps. The deportations from Westerbork began on June 15, 1942. On April 20, 1943, Moritz Wertheim was deported to Sobibor and murdered there three days later.

Moritz Wertheim died on April 23, 1943.

from: https://stolpersteine-guide.de/map/biografie/4282/moritz-wertheim