Thorbeckegracht 46

With these stumbling blocks we commemorate Siegfried Hony, born in Laasphe (Germany) on September 26, 1878 and his wife Minna Katten, born in Josbach (Germany) on June 21, 1884. Siegfried was 64, Minna 58 years old when she died on November 27, 1942 in the gas chambers of Auschwitz were murdered. **

Siegfried and Minna were married on April 22, 1908 in Minna's hometown of Josbach. The couple lived in Laasphe until 1938, where Siegfried was a butcher. Their children were also born in Laasphe. Irma's daughter on March 27, 1908 and son Max on February 4, 1911.

Irma married Berthold Wagner (born 1905). In 1934 they had a daughter named Ellen. The family was deported from their home town of Laasphe and eventually ended up in the ghetto of Zamosc in eastern Poland. They were killed there in May 1942.

Son Max fled to the Netherlands in 1934. Nazis had smeared him with tar and feathers and drove a cart through Laasphe with a plate around his neck because of his dating a non-Jewish woman. He ended up in Zwolle where he could work as a sjoumer (supervisor) at the kosher butcher Marcus at 22 Diezerstraat.

Later he ran a kosher food business at 34 Luttekestraat. In 1936 he married Betsy Troostwijk. Because German Jews were deprived of their citizenship by the Nazis, this fate also affected his Dutch wife.

With the help of his father-in-law, Arnold Troostwijk, Max succeeded in bringing his parents from Laasphe to the Netherlands. On February 11, 1938, they came to live with their son and daughter-in-law on Luttekestraat. Minna should have served a four-week prison sentence before leaving Germany in Gronau. Her crime was that she wanted to take fifty Reichsmark with her. It was the policy of the Nazis to rob Jewish emigrants of all their capital and other possessions.

On June 16, 1939, Siegfried and Minna moved to the Thorbeckegracht 46-top. From there they were deported on November 18, 1942 via the Wijnbeekschool on the Goudsteeg and the Zwolse station to the Westerbork transit camp. After a few days they leave on November 24 with transport 38 to Auschwitz. The couple was too old to pass the labor camp selections. They were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau just nine days after their departure from the Thorbeckegracht.

Their house was emptied after their forced departure. The contents were used for the interior of the Jewish hospital on Voorstraat. Jewish patients were no longer allowed to stay in ordinary Zwolle hospitals.

Son Max survived the war in hiding with his wife and now-born son. He passed away in 1992, his wife in 1993. According to family reports, Siegfried and Minna did not want to go into hiding, hoping to see their daughter Irma in Poland again.
Siegfried and Mina are also commemorated with Stolpersteine for the Königstrasse in Laaphe. In Zwolle, the name Hony lives on in the name of the fashion store HKC Hony, founded by a grandson of Siegfried and Minna.

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