Altmann, Adolf
| Surname, Name The spelling of names follows “Spis imion żydowskich” [The list of Jewish first names] (Warszawa 1928), as it was the only means to avoid the doubling of people on the list. Exception was made for famous individuals whose names are widely known in another form than that proposed in “Spis”.
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Altmann, Adolf |
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| Date of birth | 1879 |
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Location The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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Huncovce |
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State The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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| Document | passport of Paraguay |
| Fate | perished |
Altmann, Adolf (Abraham) (1879–1944) – a rabbi
Born on 8 September 1879 in the village of Huncovce in Slovakia (at the time a part of Austro-Hungary), he went on be a rabbi in Salzburg, Meran and Trier. He remained in the latter city until the end of March 1938, when he emigrated with his family to the Netherlands.
Following the commencement of the Nazi occupation, he was sent to the ghetto in Amsterdam. Next, he and his wife were deported, first to Westerbork and then to Theresienstadt. On 16 May 1944, the spouses were sent to Auschwitz, where they both perished. One of their four sons, their daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren were also murdered in the gas chambers. Their three other sons – Alexander, Erwin and Manfred – managed to escape and survived.
Adolf Altmann was posthumously honored in Trier and Salzburg.