Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
Notes for Dr Alexander LEVIN
Julie Kramer, Alexander Levin’s grandaughter writes: “Here is the only link (The Museum of the Hat Industry) I was ever able to find about my great grandfather, Alexander Levin, who I believe was murdered at Auschwitz. He owned a large hat factory in a town called Guben before WW2.
“Die stärkste Konkurrenz bekam das Unternehmen Wilke durch die Berlin-Gubener Hutfabrik AG unter der Leitung von Herrmann Lewin. Dieser Betreib kaufte im Laufe der Zeit verschiedene kleinere Betriebe dazu und beschäftigte 1922 3000 Arbeiter und Angestellte, seit Herrman Lewins Tod 1920 unter der Leitung des Generaldirektors (s. Foto) Dr. Alexander Lewin. Da Lewin als Jude unter den Repressionen des Nazi-Regimes zu leiden hatte, verlies er das Land und mußte die Hutfabrik zurücklassen.”1428,1410
The Yad Vashem database (http://www4.yadvashem.org/) contains known names and details of victims of the Shoah. In this index there is no reference to an Alexander Levin. Nor is there any reference to Gubin or Guben. However it is possible he was not written down entirely correctly as this was often the case. In particular Levin might well have been written as Lewin (since V and W were almost interchangeable).
My guess is that this is probably my great grandfather's record. My mom was born in the early 1930s, so working backwards from my mom to her mother to my great grandfather, the birth date could make sense. I know he also resided and did business in Berlin and had an additional home and business in Guben.
The most likely is perhaps Alexander Lewin whose record was born below. If his grandaughter Dinah Cohn was born around 1932, and her mother around 1912, then her grandmother could have been born around 1892. Then Alexander Levin might plausibly have been born in 1896 as shown below. Great Grandaughter Julie Kramer reports “I know he also resided and did business in Berlin and had an additional home and business in Guben.”1429
Full Record Details for Lewin Alexander
Source Gedenkbuch - Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945, Bundesarchiv (German National Archives), Koblenz 1986
Last Name LEWIN
First Name ALEXANDER
Date of Birth 24/12/1896
Permanent residence BERLIN,BERLIN,BERLIN,GERMANY
Place of Death AUSCHWITZ,Camp
Victims' status end WWII Missing
Type of material list of victims from Germany
with the following additional details:
Source Gedenkbuch Berlins der juedischen Opfer des Nazionalsozialismus, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Zentralinstitut fuer sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1995
Last Name LEWIN
First Name ALEXANDER
Date of Birth 24/12/1896
Permanent residence BERLIN,BERLIN,BERLIN,GERMANY
Destination of Deportation AUSCHWITZ,Camp
Key to Transport Transport from Berlin to Auschwitz on 26/02/1943
Place of Death AUSCHWITZ,Camp
Type of material list of deportation from Berlin
(Source. Yad Vashem)
“Die stärkste Konkurrenz bekam das Unternehmen Wilke durch die Berlin-Gubener Hutfabrik AG unter der Leitung von Herrmann Lewin. Dieser Betreib kaufte im Laufe der Zeit verschiedene kleinere Betriebe dazu und beschäftigte 1922 3000 Arbeiter und Angestellte, seit Herrman Lewins Tod 1920 unter der Leitung des Generaldirektors (s. Foto) Dr. Alexander Lewin. Da Lewin als Jude unter den Repressionen des Nazi-Regimes zu leiden hatte, verlies er das Land und mußte die Hutfabrik zurücklassen.”1428,1410
The Yad Vashem database (http://www4.yadvashem.org/) contains known names and details of victims of the Shoah. In this index there is no reference to an Alexander Levin. Nor is there any reference to Gubin or Guben. However it is possible he was not written down entirely correctly as this was often the case. In particular Levin might well have been written as Lewin (since V and W were almost interchangeable).
My guess is that this is probably my great grandfather's record. My mom was born in the early 1930s, so working backwards from my mom to her mother to my great grandfather, the birth date could make sense. I know he also resided and did business in Berlin and had an additional home and business in Guben.
The most likely is perhaps Alexander Lewin whose record was born below. If his grandaughter Dinah Cohn was born around 1932, and her mother around 1912, then her grandmother could have been born around 1892. Then Alexander Levin might plausibly have been born in 1896 as shown below. Great Grandaughter Julie Kramer reports “I know he also resided and did business in Berlin and had an additional home and business in Guben.”1429
Full Record Details for Lewin Alexander
Source Gedenkbuch - Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945, Bundesarchiv (German National Archives), Koblenz 1986
Last Name LEWIN
First Name ALEXANDER
Date of Birth 24/12/1896
Permanent residence BERLIN,BERLIN,BERLIN,GERMANY
Place of Death AUSCHWITZ,Camp
Victims' status end WWII Missing
Type of material list of victims from Germany
with the following additional details:
Source Gedenkbuch Berlins der juedischen Opfer des Nazionalsozialismus, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Zentralinstitut fuer sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1995
Last Name LEWIN
First Name ALEXANDER
Date of Birth 24/12/1896
Permanent residence BERLIN,BERLIN,BERLIN,GERMANY
Destination of Deportation AUSCHWITZ,Camp
Key to Transport Transport from Berlin to Auschwitz on 26/02/1943
Place of Death AUSCHWITZ,Camp
Type of material list of deportation from Berlin
(Source. Yad Vashem)