Siegemund Ruschkewitz

1871 - 1940  (69 years)

• Name	Siegemund Ruschkewitz
  Born	1871	Danzig, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Holocaust	In 1935, three years before his acquisition of the Joel business, Neckermann acquired -- at a fraction of its worth -- a large department store in the city of Wurzberg owned by a German Jew named Siegmund Ruschkewitz. His brief biography is partly told in records in Germany and at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. His memory is kept alive by his grandson, Gad Ruschkewitz, 63, who lives in Israel. "My grandfather was a wealthy, self-made man," he said. "He made something of his life. What I think only my family knows is that Neckermann worked for my grandfather in the department store in Wurzberg. My father told me Neckermann brought a Nazi member to the store and they threw him out. I don't know if any payment was made, but my father told me that all Neckermann offered for the business was 46,000 Reich.marks, which was less than the cost of renovations my grandfather had recently made. "After he lost the business, my grandfather and his second wife left Wurzberg for Berlin and lived in a hotel as two poor people until they could get on a ship for Palestine, where my father was already living. So you see, they were trying to reach their son. They had a beautiful home with a garden [in Wurzberg]. I believe they lost that, too. Why else would they have gone to that hotel?" En route, Ruschkewitz and his wife died of typhus aboard ship. Their bodies were thrown overboard near the island of Crete. Their other son, Ernst, who stayed behind in Germany, was killed at the Buchenwald concentration camp on March 31, 1945 -- three weeks before the end of the war.  [1]
  Residence	1871-1898	Danzig, Germany
  Residence	1898-1939	Wuerzburg, Germany
  Hebrew Death	15 Tis 5701
  Occupation	Department Store Owner
  Died	17 Oct 1940	Crete, Greece
  Buried	Heraklion, Greece
  	Jewish cemetery
  Person ID	I9877	Blank Family
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2009

  
  

  Family 1	Johanna Ernst,   b. 26 Mar 1870,   d. 12 Dec 1903, Wuerzburg, Germany  (Age 33 years)
  Children	1. Max Ruschkewitz,   b. 1899, Wuerzburg, Germany ,   d. 1930, Wuerzburg, Germany  (Age 31 years)   2. Ernst Ruschkewitz,   b. 5 Nov 1903, Wuerzburg, Germany ,   d. 31 Mar 1945, Berga/Elster CC  (Age 41 years)   3. Fritz Ruschkewitz,   b. 1901, Wuerzburg, Germany ,   d. Yes - date unknown
  Family ID	F7001	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mina,   d. 7 Nov 1940, Crete, Greece
  Married	1905	Wuerzburg, Germany
  Children	1. Hans Rush,   b. 1907, Wuerzburg, Germany ,   d. Yes - date unknown
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2009
  Family ID	F7003	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1871 - Danzig, Germany Residence - 1871-1898 - Danzig, Germany Married - 1905 - Wuerzburg, Germany Residence - 1898-1939 - Wuerzburg, Germany Died - 17 Oct 1940 - Crete, Greece Buried - - Heraklion, Greece  = Link to Google Earth
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  Siegmund Ruschkewitz

  
  

  Histories

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  Holocaust Records		Billy Joel, Neckermann and Aryanization of Joel and Ruschkewitz stores in Wurzburg
  		Visa Siegmund Ruschkewitz

  
  

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