- Document ID: do_twmpKNJMeS232Wtfk4g3H
- Document Collection: 7-14-1 Documentation of the CLI
- Link to Online Archive: https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/de/document/132458214
Maximilian Segall
DOB: 13th of December 1894 in Neuenkirchen, Germany
Source:
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/de/document/474534
https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/11202474
https://digital-library.cdec.it/cdec-web/persone/detail/person-7095/segall-maximilian.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43497795
On the transport list of the deportation train that left Milan for Auschwitz with more than 700 people on 30 January 1944, the name Maximilian Segall, from Danzig, is also found. He was one of many thousands of Jews who had taken refuge in Italy from countries dominated by National Socialism to escape inhuman and increasingly threatening persecution. When he arrived in Italy in October 1939, Segall. was 44 years old, and was therefore already one of the elders among the refugees. As a rule, it was easier for young people to leave, while the older generation had become so attached to their environment that they could hardly tear themselves away from it, and many of them were frightened by the idea of taking up a new profession in old age. Max Segall lived alone, which certainly facilitated his decision to leave. His sister was married to a furniture wholesaler from Danzig who played a leading role in the city’s Jewish community and ran the Jewish rest home. Segall was not originally from Danzig, but was born in Neunkirchen an der Saar, at the western end of Germany, and probably settled in Danzig shortly after the First World War.
Following the Treaty of Versailles, the city had been detached from the German Reich and was an autonomous political unit under the authority of the League of Nations until 1 September 1939, when the city was occupied by Hitler’s army and immediately annexed. Although he retained German citizenship even after his move to Danzig, Segali felt attracted to the city’s Polish minority and expressed a strong sympathy for them. By profession, he was a merchant, and it is assumed that he had joined his brother-in-law’s furniture firm, collaborating in the family business. He therefore probably belonged to the better-off part of the Gdańsk bourgeoisie
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