Venestraat 10a
Zwolle
With this stumbling stone we commemorate Max Wijnberg. He died at the age of 24 on or after July 19, 1942 in Auschwitz. Max was unmarried. **
Max Wijnberg was from Hoogeveen and was the eldest son of cattle dealer Alexander Wijnberg and Rosa Urbach. From 1939 he lived as a guest house with the widow Deiman in Venestraat 10A.
Max had three sisters, one of whom survived the war. She went to live in the US after the war. His other sisters, his father and his mother were murdered in Auschwitz on September 17, 1943.
Max was a butcher. In the evening of June 26, 1942, he is locked up in the Zwolle police station, suspected of "fraudulent slaughter." It is not clear exactly what he had done wrong. Had he contradicted the ban on ritual slaughter already imposed on July 31, 1940 under Jewish law? Had he slaughtered for the black market? Upon his arrest, Max f. 79.43 owned. A decent sum of money, about three times the average weekly wages of a worker.
To intimidate, the occupier imposed severe penalties for violating the many anti-Jewish measures that increasingly isolate Jewish citizens from the rest of the population. On 2 July, the Zwolle police handed Max over to the German Sicherheits Polizei, who imprisoned him in the Amersfoort punishment camp. From there he arrived on Thursday July 16 in the transit camp Westerbork. The same day he was deported to Auschwitz as a punishment. When his death certificate was drawn up by the Zwolle civil registry in 1949, it was assumed that he was murdered immediately after arrival on 19 July in Auschwitz. It has recently been announced that he has been registered there upon entering as a prisoner with the number 48461. He may have had to work as a forced laborer in Auschwitz-Birkenau for some time.
P. Riemersma, The Stumbling Stones in Venestraat and Derk Buismanstraat (Zwolle 2015) p. 13-14.
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