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happened’ 159 from the time of the pogrom until his departure. After farewelling
his maternal grandmother, Hedwig Wandrow, he returned to his paternal aunt in
Berlin. It is not known if he saw his non-Jewish step-grandfather, Max Wandrow,
who died on 16 December 1938. George Mannings left Germany toward the end
of 1938.
At the time of his arrest, the unemployed Heinrich Manneberg 160 was living
with his parents-in-law, the Wandrows, at Schönebecker Straße 29/30. 161 Both he
and his son had moved from their own family residence at Hötensleberstraße 4
shortly after the death of his wife, Walli Manneberg née Blumenthal, on 18 June
1934. 162 After Manneberg was released from Buchenwald Concentration Camp he
returned to the Wandrows. By the end of 1938, he and his mother-in-law were by
themselves. His son had emigrated to England and his mother-in-law’s husband
had died.
On 20 January 1940, both Manneberg and his mother-in-law were ordered to
move to a newly established ‘Judenhaus’ at Schöninger Straße 27a in Sudenburg.
They were two of eighteen local Jews who had been allocated four small
apartments. 163 It is most likely that Heinrich Manneberg was deported to the
Warsaw ghetto in April 1942. 164 It is not known if he perished there or in an
159
Mannings, op. cit., 17 August 1999.
160
Ibid.
161
Personal file on the Manneberg family, Bestand Pe, Signatur Nr. 31, ASGM, op.
cit.
162
Ibid.
163
Günter Kuntze, Unter aufgehobenen Rechten Magdeburg: Helmuth-Block-Verlag,
1992, pp. 13–14. This work provides a detailed account of the lives and fates of
members of the Blumenthal, Manneberg and Wandrow families. However, owing to
recently discovered archival material and oral history material from members of these
families, some of the interpretations made from empirical data and conversely the
conclusions drawn have been proven incorrect.
164
Personal file on the Manneberg family, Bestand Pe, Signatur Nr. 31, ASGM, op.
cit. and correspondence and report from the president of the Synagogen-Gemeinde zu