Renaming of
Hallerstraße in Ostmarkstraße, Hamburg,
November 1st, 1938Institute for the History of the German Jewsredaktion@juedische-geschichte-online.netBeim Schlump 83, 20144 Hamburg
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jgo:source-128This photo was published in the newspaper Hamburger
Anzeiger on November 1st, 1938. It
shows an older man in work clothes and peaked cap with a street sign reading
“Hallerstrasse,” which
he has just removed, tucked under his left arm. He is looking at the new sign
reading “Ostmarkstrasse” he has just mounted
and also at the new designation of the street section where houses no. 72-78
were located. This was where the street used to split off into “Hallerplatz,” and the houses
located there were now considered part of Grindelhof.The
photographer whose name is given as “Frege” could not
be identified. While the quality of this picture is inadequate, the process it
documents exemplifies how the National Socialist rulers intended to remove any
reminder of the Jews from Hamburg’s cityscape. A photo of the same event taken from the
opposite side was shown in the exhibition “Vierhundert Jahre Juden in
Hamburg” at the Museum für hamburgische
Geschichte (1991). The source
interpretation is based on files located in the Hamburger
Staatsarchiv.FregeHamburgNovember 01, 1938Staatsarchiv HamburgStAHH, 135-1 I-IV Staatliche Pressestelle, Nr. 7811.EnglishSource:Image