Wasstraat 28
Leiden
Günther Wallbach was born in Berlin on April 8, 1901. He was the son of Israel Wallbach and Hertha Sara Simonsohn. A year later, Günther had a brother, Curt Werner Bruno Wallbach.
Günther was a doctor by profession. He studied in Berlin and was promoted to doctor in 1925. From then on, Günther worked at the Charité Hospital of the University of Berlin. Wallbach specialized in hematology and was therefore concerned with blood and blood diseases.
Based on his specialty, he contributed, among other things, to the prestigious 'Ergebnisse der Generale Pathologie und Patologischen Anatomie des Menschen und der Tiere'. This so-called 'Ergebnisse' was published annually and offers an overview of the latest scientific insights. Wallbach makes a contribution of no less than 300 pages about his field of hematology.
Wallbach was also co-author of the first edition of the 'Hematological Handbuch'. In April 1933 he was fired, 'because he was an Israelite'.
In 1936 Günther fled to the Netherlands. He first lived in The Hague. There he married Rosa Crohn (Günther was then 35 years old) on September 30, 1936, who was born in Spandau on April 18, 1911.
The marriage did not last long: on April 8, 1937, the marriage was annulled by judgment in Berlin. Rosa leaves for Berlin that same month. The reason for the annulment of the marriage is unknown.
In January 1939 he came to live in Leiden at Wasstraat 10, and on December 4 of that year he moved to Wasstraat 28. On October 5 of the following year, Wallbach moved to Utrecht. Stateless non-Aryans were no longer allowed to live in the coastal strip from September 9, 1940.
Günther founded a laboratory in Leiden, Vitatesta. Nothing is known about what the laboratory did and where it was located. During the war, an NSB member was appointed as co-director. On April 21, 1944, the company burned down, probably set on fire. The same day, Günther was arrested and taken to Westerbork. On July 31 of that year, Günther was deported to Theresienstadt, and then transferred to Auschwitz on September 28 of that year.
Günther died that same month. In a certificate from the Dutch Red Cross it is written by hand 'that it must be assumed that Günther Wallbach died of illness, exhaustion or gassing'. Another Red Cross document states that Günther died of gas asphyxiation on September 30, 1944. Günther was 43 years old.
His father Wallbach had died earlier in the war, in 1942, in Utrecht. His mother Hertha survived the war together with her other son Curt.
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