Kuiperstraat 7

Harrij Juras (37), Beile Juras-Mehrkrebs (31) and Ignatz Schönfeld (42) lived here. Harrij and Beile lived at this address for two years, Ignatz for eight months.
Harrij Juras was born in Berlin on October 25, 1907. He emigrated from Breslau to the Netherlands in 1933 and settled in The Hague. There he lived from 1934 on the Noordeinde together with his mother Minna.
The Polish Beile Juras-Mehrkrebs was born on April 26, 1912 in Jawornik. She came to the Netherlands in 1938 and went to live with Harrij and his mother in The Hague as a 26-year-old young woman. Maybe she worked for room and board, she was a seamstress and mother Minna a dressmaker.
When foreign refugees had to leave the coastal region, Beile and Harrij moved to Gouda. In February 1941 first to the Nieuwehaven and on March 11 to the Kuiperstraat 7. Here Beile became the main occupant. Ignatz Schönfeld also came to live there on that date. Harrij and Beile first only married in a church, it is not clear when. Perhaps they eventually did not receive the necessary papers for a civil marriage in Gouda.
Beile worked as a seamstress in the linen room of the Central Home and was therefore barred. Harrij was a merchant and ran a stocking repair business, perhaps together with Beile. According to his Jewish Council card, he was "diligent and vigorous, to be used for anything", his health was "good".
From mid-June 1942 he provided "aid to departing people" (HAV) according to this Council card. HAV employees of the Jewish Council helped Jews prepare for deportation with prescribed equipment. This allowed the deportation by train to run smoothly for the police, NS and the occupation authorities.
From that moment on, Harrij was also a courier for the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, he was called on his Jewish Council card: the "main employee of the JR Gouda". He probably collected the Gouda deportation lists from the Zentralstelle in Amsterdam, the Jewish Deportation Office. Based on this, the police in Gouda were able to arrest the Jewish fellow citizens by name and transport them to Amsterdam in groups by train. I already speculated about the existence of a special deportation lists courier on page 260 in the final part of my book "Here Lived - Stolpersteine Gouda".
Harrij's both positions for the Jewish Council reveal the diabolical dilemma of the Jewish Council employees. You participated in the deportations of others and thus received a Sperre yourself, a temporary exemption from deportation. But in the end, the Jewish Council employees also did not escape the Nazis.
On the evening of April 9, 1943, Harrij and Beile had to join the big April rave in Gouda. From the Central Home the journey took a long train with about a hundred people to Westerbork. They were detained in this transit camp for more than ten months. Shortly after their internment, on the 19th of April, they concluded a civil wedding here. Life seemed almost normal in the camp, but every week a fully loaded Jew transport left for the East.
On July 7, 1943, Harrij writes a postcard from Westerbork to Herbert Hirsch of the Josephstraat in Gouda. "Here everything is neither in Ordnung", he writes. ... "Meine Frau does not lie in the Krankenhaus and had es nicht leicht." ... "Wertheimer und der Bruder von Seiffer's lessons or einmal herzlich grüßen." Of course you were not allowed to talk about deportation in postcards from the camp. Felix Wertheimer was deported to Sobibor on June 29, Saam Seijffers on July 6. Harrij thus indicated in a veiled manner that both were gone. It ends with: "Scream bald und sei herzlich gehrüßt von deine HJuras."
On Harrij’s and Beiles Jewish Council cards you can read that they were both actually "intended" for Vught. Even SS'er Franz Fischer confirmed that there was a Sperre. But this did not help them much, after ten months of Westerbork deportation followed.
Harrij had to experience that on February 8, 1944, Beile had to join the dreaded transport train alone. Where the train was going, they did not know in the camp. Immediately after arriving on February 11, Beile was murdered in Auschwitz.
Two weeks later on February 25, Harrij embarked on a year-long agony. His journey took him past the Nazi camps of Theresienstadt, then Auschwitz at the end of September 1944 and Buchenwald at the beginning of October. On February 28, 1945, he was murdered in a death march in Central Europe. A year after his wife Beile.
Ignatz Justin Schönfeld (42) lived with Harrij and Beile Juras-Mehrkrebs in the Kuiper State for eight months.
Ignatz was born in Dornheim on October 8, 1899. In 1935 he emigrated to the Netherlands from Nuremberg, probably together with his mother Babette Schönfeld-Adelsdorfer. First to the Zeestraat in The Hague and in October 1936 to the van Speyckstraat.
In August 1938, Ignatz may have given notice of the intention to marry the non-Jewish Evangelical Maria Rule. She also came from Nuremberg, emigrated to the Netherlands in 1934 and from 1936 lived at the same address as Ignatz and his mother. Marriage between them in Germany was already precluded by the Nuremberg Racial Laws. Maria Regel had to return to Nuremberg in 1939 due to a death in the family. Apparently coming to the Netherlands was no longer possible.
Ignatz and his mother were forced to come to Gouda from The Hague. Mother Babette moved to the Central Home on the Oosthaven. Ignatz first lived with Harry and Beile Juras-Mehrkrebs on the Nieuwehaven for a few weeks, then he moved to 7 Kuiperstraat with them in March 1941. Oosthaven 31 is also mentioned on his Jewish Council map. Ignatz was a cigar shopkeeper, more generally a merchant, according to the 1941 Gouda Jewish Registration List.
Already after eight months, on November 2, 1941, in the month that he was made stateless by the German Nazi regime, the Sipo in Rotterdam detained him in the Haagseveer. This police station also functioned as a detention complex during the Second World War. He is said to have committed an economic crime, it was "contraband."
According to his arrest card from the Rotterdam City Archives, he was picked up from the police station on February 4, 1942. It is unclear where he was in the following weeks. On March 28, 1942 he was imprisoned in Buchenwald. He may have arrived there via Amersfoort: on an administrative money card from Buchenwald, his name reads: "sendung Amersfoort."
On June 5, 1942 he was transferred to Mauthausen. In the Netherlands, that camp was much feared at the time before the Jews' transports from Westerbork. Here he was "shot on the run" on June 17, 1942. This was standard formulation. Beaten from the stairs to the granite quarry, murdered with a poison injection or something else gruesome is also possible.
After the war, Maria Regel inquired in polite and persistent letters about the fate of Ignatz and his mother at the International Tracing Bureau. The restrained despair about their fate is reflected in it. How Ignatz and his mother had fared after she had to return to Germany in 1939, she did not know. Letters were censored. She was the same age as Ignatz and called him by his middle name Justin, apparently his nickname.
Mother Babette was 74 when she died in Sobibor after the great April raid of 1943, she had to leave Gouda with the same transport as Harrij and Beile. In the sidewalk in front of Oosthaven 31, one of the 64 Stolpersteine located there reminds of her.
For the Kuiperstaat 7 now one Stolperstein reminds of Ignatz Justin Schönfeld.
Two Stolpersteine are reminders of the couple Harrij and Beile Juras-Mehrkrebs.

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