Kurzbiographien - Opfer d. Verlorenen Transports

born on 22.2.1887 in Velbert (Westphalia) as the son of
Leeser Aaron, born on 9.2.1858 in Mintard; died on 24.9.1928 in Velbert and
Helene Isaac, born on 23.10.1865 in Velbert; died on 8.7.1924

Siblings:
Margarete Seligmann, née Aaron (born 23.1.1889 in Velbert),
Hedwig, Hes, née Aaron (born 12.7.1895 in Velbert; died 26.2.1943 Auschwitz),
Theodora Stein, née Aaron (born 15.6.1897 in Velbert),
Else Aaron (born 31.1.1899 in Velbert).

Died on 19.4.1945 in the Lost Transport near Schipkau, buried in a mass grave along the railway line Schipkau - Finsterwalde

Dr. Siegfried Aaron comes from a Jewish family that has been settled in Westphalia for a long time. So does his wife Ida. His life path can be inferred from the available information:
From his birthplace Velbert, he moved to Bonn around 1903, where he studied law until 1910 and earned his doctorate in law. There, later in Elberfeld, where there was a relatively large Jewish community (about 2000 members), he seems to have worked as a lawyer. Whether he served as a soldier in World War I is unknown; in any case, he was registered back in Velbert during the war.
There he married Ida Weyl from Jülich in 1920.
In 1921, daughter Lotte was born, in 1924 son Richard Otto, and in 1928 Ludwig was born.
When Hindenburg transferred power to Hitler in 1933, the family lived in Wuppertal, Moltkestr. 20, then Berlinerstr. 5. Elberfeld was the starting point of the Ruhr uprising against the Kapp Putsch in 1920, but after the suppression of this uprising, it increasingly became a stronghold of the NSDAP, which actively agitated among the working class there. Until the arson of all Jewish buildings in the city on November 10, 1938 ('Kristallnacht'), anti-Jewish and anti-communist persecution constantly increased.

- In 1937, Dr. Siegfried Aaron flees to the Netherlands, and Ida and the children follow him in 1938. They live with Siegfried's sister Hedwig Hes at Utrechtsestraat 45.
- 10.5.1940: German troops attack the Netherlands.
- On 12.11.1942, the Aarons are interned in the transit camp Westerbork.
- On 19.5.1943, daughter Lotte Aaron marries the lawyer Ludwig Heijmann in Amsterdam (31.1.1902 Essen - 22.1.1945 Bergen-Belsen).
- On 20.6.1943, Lotte and her husband are interned in Westerbork.
- In February 1943, son Richard Otto, sister Hedwig, and her husband Moses Mosla Hes are deported to Auschwitz, where Hedwig and Moses Mosla Hes are murdered on 26.2.1943 and Richard Otto Aaron on 28.2.1943. He was 19 years old.
- On 1.2.1944, the Aarons, as well as daughter Lotte and her husband Ludwig, arrive at the exchange camp in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, where Ludwig Heijmann dies on 22.1.1945.

- On March 31, 1945, wife Ida Weyl dies in Bergen Belsen.
- On April 10, 1945, Siegfried Aaron and his two children are transported in the so-called Lost Transport to Theresienstadt.
- Dr. Siegfried Aaron dies on the train on the railway line from Schipkau to Finsterwalde. He was buried there in the mass grave where the small memorial is located today.
- Son Ludwig Aaron and daughter Lotte Heijmann-Aaron are liberated by the Red Army in Tröbitz on April 23, 1945, and survive.

Lotte Heijmann lived in 1947 at Maasstraat 149-II in Amsterdam (census 1947). Nothing is known about her further fate and that of her brother so far.