Jakob Maier was born in Hilsbach, Germany in 1880. Prior to WWII he lived in Offenburg, Germany. During the war he was in Auschwitz, Poland. Jakob was murdered in the Shoah.
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Deported with a transport from Baden - Pfalz - Saarland to Gurs, 22/10/1940
Source Collection
List of Jewish victims from the Memorial book "Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945" prepared by the German Federal Archives
Official names of places and districts reflect the administrative organization and state borders of the different countries before 1.01.1938.
During the Shoah, Jews were murdered in a variety of ways, among them gassing, shooting, burning, drowning or burial alive, exhaustion through forced labor, starvation, epidemic diseases, deprivation of medical care and minimal hygienic conditions, and more. Some Jews took their own lives in order to escape arrest and further persecution, or to end their hopeless, relentless suffering.