Life_under_Siege_The_Jews_of_Magdeburg_under_Nazi_Rule.pdf

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of that. They did their best. They worked hard. They certainly no longer
showed this strong antisemitism. 253
By this stage, however, there were very few Jews in the city to experience this, as
the organised Jewish community itself had long been erased from the landscape of
the city. The exact total number of Jews in Magdeburg at that point in time cannot
be calculated.
By May 1939, approximately 726 Jews were living in Magdeburg. 254 When
this figure is subtracted from the original June 1933 census statistic of 1,973
Jews, 255 it indicates a population difference of 1,247 persons. The vast majority of
this figure emigrated, as did a further unknown figure up until emigration ceased.
Emigration destinations included other European countries, Palestine, the British
Empire and its dominions, North and South America, Asia and Africa. Of those
who emigrated to European countries, it remains unknown how many perished
owing to the German occupation of some of those countries and the expansion of
the ‘Final Solution to the Jewish Question.’
Deportation figures for the population which remained in Magdeburg indicate
the following statistics:
1. 14 April 1942 – 153 Jews deported to Warsaw 256
2. 11 July 1942 – unknown number of Jews deported to the annexed region
in the east 257
3. 18 November 1942 – 73 Jews deported to Theresienstadt 258
253 Name withheld, op. cit., 18 June 1999.
254 Landesverband Jüdischer Gemeinden Sachsen-Anhalt, ed., op. cit., p. 189.
255 Statistisches Reichsamt, Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, Band 451, Volkszählung:
die Bevölkerung des Deutschen Reichs nach den Ergebnissen der Volkszählung 1933,
Heft 5, Die Glaubensjuden im Deutschen Reich, Bestand R 3102, BAB, op. cit., pp.
15–33.
256 Betrifft: Verwaltung und Verwertung des dem Reich angefallenen Vermögens, 23.
Oktober 1942, Bestand Rep. G 1, Signatur Nr. 390, LHASA MD, op. cit., p. 101.
257 Ibid.