Capture, deportation, and death Moritz Rabinowitz



according eye witness, rabinowitz stomped death outside nearest barracks on picture


rabinowitz expected war come norway. on 8 april, day before surprise attack came, submitted last op-ed article haugesunds avis in asked readers give norwegian soldier respect , support. germany army landed in norway on 9 april , haugesund on 10 april. gestapo made capturing rabinowitz highest priority in little coastal town. rabinowitz had prepared several places along coast hiding places , moved 1 other gestapo on tracks. following war there debate why rabinowitz did not avail himself of 4 known opportunities flee country sea england. among townspeople of haugesund, rumored invested in company , money. view, reinforced stereotypes rejected in local papers, when rabinowitz s (non-jewish) business manager , several employees emphatically stated such motivations uncharacteristic of him. subsequent research has shown declined passage on 2 occasions reasons entirely unrelated business affairs


they caught him in skånevik, shadowing employees conveying business decisions between rabinowitz , businesses. daughter, son-in-law, , grandson had joined him.


rabinowitz first detained in regional jail @ lagård in stavanger, sent møllergata 19 jail in oslo on 26 february 1941 , Åneby on 22 march, until sent møllergata on 25 april, remained until deportation on ms monte rosa 22 may 1941. monte rosa landed in stettin, wrote will. rabinowitz ended in sachsenhausen, placed in barracks jews, though officially categorized political prisoner. died on 27 february 1942. death certificate lists pneumonia cause of death, according fellow prisoner, rabinowitz kicked , stomped death outside barrack 38 in sachsenhausen. rabinowitz s brother, daughter, grandson, , son-in-law later deported , murdered in auschwitz.


as happened, rabinowitz managed convey last greetings via german inmate , inmate haugesund people of haugesund. these reproduced in obituary published on 20 june 1945. on 6 may 1986, people of haugesund erected memorial stone rabinowitz.


rabinowitz dictated , signed last , testament fellow inmate, christian wilhelm rynning-tønnesen, left earthly belongings daughter edith, expressing wish businesses continue going concerns. since edith , entire family murdered, left of rabinowitz s estate went probate after war. after occupying powers had confiscated businesses, , @ least nok 300,000 in cash , securities, estate valued @ nok 986,000 @ end of war. norwegian government imposed fees , taxes of nok 450,000 in course of next ten years. among other things, authorities assumed rabinowitz s heirs had died in sequence maximized tax liability (and thereby tax revenue).








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