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Léo Sztokmann 1900 - 1945 Edit

Born 14.11.1900 in Błaszki
Died 1.4.1945 in Gusen

Biography

Leo (Levi) Sztokmann, son of Bleeme and Feibush, was born on 14 November 1900, the second youngest of six siblings, in Blazski, Poland.

Leo lived in Breslau, Germany, until Kristallnacht during which his clothes factory was seized and he had to escape to Paris. He lived in rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth and worked as a tailor.  On 25 August 1938 he married Madeleine (Liba) Seidlitz and moved to rue Vieille-du-Temple, near the place de la Republique.

Although, at first Leo elected to stay in Paris believing that German papers he had attained would save him, it appears that later, after he was prohibited to work as a tailor, he may have tried to escape as at some point he moved south west to the small town of Evron and worked there as a farmer. As part of the Vel' d'Hiv (15–17 July 1942) he and one other non-French Jew was rounded up in Evron and after a number of days incarceration in the Grand Seminary in Angers (Le grand séminaire d’Angers, Centre Saint-Jean) he was deported by train cattle cars first to Auschwitz (arriving 24 July 1942) and thereafter to Mauthausen (Gusen II) (arriving 25 January 1945) where he died on 1 April 1945.

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Paul Stock und David Opatowski, great-nephews

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