Produktenhändler Martin Samuel
The produce trade of the merchant Martin Samuel at Malchiner Straße 24 in Teterow existed from at least 1927 to 1938 according to Diekmann and Stuhr [1]. After the pogrom in November 1938 Martin Samuel was taken into "protective custody" and released again after a short time. In November 1942 he was deported with his wife Ilse to Theresienstadt, where he died on 4 January 1944 [2][3]. How the business was wound up or taken over after 1938 is not known.
The business
Martin Samuel ran a produce trade at Malchiner Straße 24, the address, the trade and the period "at least 1927 to 1938" coming from Diekmann (1998) and Stuhr (1986) [1]. The address (Malchiner Straße) is supported by a newspaper report of 2016 that names Malchiner Straße as the place of the merchant Samuel's shop [4]. For 1933 the online lexicon names the produce trade Samuel as a business owned by Jews of the town [2], a millinery shop of the family being named as well. Whether the millinery shop named there is the same as the millinery shop of a Hedwig Samuel at Warener Straße 1 that the firm database holds as a separate firm is not known, and it is likewise not documented whether the millinery shop was a separate business or belonged to the produce trade Samuel.
November pogrom 1938
The brothers Otto and Martin Samuel lived with their wives Ida and Ilse at Große Knickhägerstraße 20 [3]. After the pogrom Otto and Martin Samuel were taken into "protective custody", brought to the Alt-Strelitz prison and released after a short time. On the evening of 10 November 1938 a large antisemitic rally took place on the market square, and the Samuel family was afterwards pressed in vain to leave the town.
Deportation and death
The four were deported via Berlin to Theresienstadt in a state-wide action on 11 November 1942, whereas Wikipedia gives 19 November 1942 [5] and the deportation list gives 11 November 1942 as the date and the 74th transport of the elderly of 19 November 1942 as the transport [6]. According to the person database, which refers to the Gedenkbuch of the Bundesarchiv, Martin Samuel (born 1875) died on 4 January 1944 in Theresienstadt [3], and Wikipedia gives the same date of death and also states that the two women were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on 16 May 1944 and murdered there [5]. The newspaper report of 2016 states for the family of the merchant Samuel in Malchiner Straße that the couple and one daughter were murdered and that another daughter survived [4]. The fate of the business after 1938 is not known.