Raam 5

Max Paul Strauss (35) lived at this address for a year.
He was born in Bergen on March 10, 1908 and became a butcher like his father Samuel. In 1934 he left Nazi Germany and moved to the Netherlands. In mid-July he was registered in The Hague, where he first lived briefly with his sister Rieda and her non-Jewish Dutch husband Arie van den Brande. In September of that year, his father Samuel and mother Toni Strauss-Stern also emigrated to The Hague. Max also lived with them for a while.
On November 21, 1934, he married Sara Wurms, born in The Hague in 1913. The couple went to live at 72 Maasstraat in May 1935. Their first child Elisabeth died three months after birth in September 1935, followed by Antonia Elisabeth on October 9, 1936.
Wife Sara and daughter Antonia continued to live in their house in Haagse Maasstraat until their deportation. Max moved to Leeuwarden - perhaps to his brother Alfred - and came to Gouda in February 1941. At first he lived in Middellantstraat, in October he moved to Raam 5. Maybe he still worked here and there as a butcher.
Max's Jewish Council map only shows the address Maassstraat in The Hague, but the housing map of the Raam 5 shows that from October 10, 1941 he lived with C. van Leeuwen-van der Ende. Here he lived for a year in increasing isolation. Parks and shops where you were no longer allowed to go, the Star of David you had to wear, the calls for the so-called Arbeitseinsatz under police surveillance, the threatening police raids.
The fact that the Hague police brought his wife Sara and daughter Antonia to Gouda in October 1942, was only to be able to remove the family as a whole silently. A Gouda police report of Friday 23 October 1942 states that group 10 of the Rotterdam police together with the Gouda agents Oudenaarden and Van der Vlies arrested a group of fourteen Jewish fellow citizens. Among them were the Kahlenberg family and also Max Strauss with his family. Max's wife Sara and daughter Antonia had been "taken over from the Hague Police". The Gouda police officers stated coolly in the police report: "they have all been transferred to Amsterdam." After that they probably stayed for another week in the overcrowded Hollandsche Schouwburg.
Max was imprisoned in Westerbork on October 30, 1942, together with his wife and daughter.
The whole family was deported to Auschwitz on November 2. Max was perhaps one of 260 men from the group of nearly 1,000 deportees who were taken from the train at Cosel for forced labor. Hence his death five months later at the age of 35 in Central Europe on March 31, 1943.
Mother and daughter will then be separated from Max and have driven the last eighty kilometers to Auschwitz without him. Immediately after arriving on November 5, 1942, Sara and her daughter were murdered in Auschwitz. Sara was 29, little Antonia 6 years old. It was two weeks after deportation from Gouda.
One Stolperstein in the sidewalk in front of the Raam 5 now reminds of Max Paul Strauss.

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