Lothar Ludwig Blumenthal, born 27 December 1920 in Fulda (D), was a son of Jakob Blumenthal and Klara Karolina Hecht. He was unmarried and weaver by profession. At the age of 17 he arrived from the city of Telsai in Lithuania in Enschede where he found shelter at Alststraat 21 and per 18 January 1938, when he joined the society for “hachshara” Haimers Eschs, which was founded on a religious basis, he went living at Strootweg 460 in Enschede. There he received training for a life in a kibbutz (an agricultural colony) in Palestine.
On 10 July 1940 he moved to Haringvlietstraat 12 1st floor in Amsterdam and lived in there with his brother Markus Blumenthal, his wife Hanna Daube and their son Jessy Leopold. Markus Blumenthal arrrived with his wife from Frankfurt am Main in January 1937 in Amsterdam, lived at Westeinde 11 parterre and moved 13 June 1937 to Haringvlietstraat 13. By going into hiding, Markus and his family have survived the Holocaust.
On 10 July 1941, Lothar Ludwig moved in with his other brother Leo Blumenthal, who lived with his wife Betsie Ilse van Dam and their two children at Watteaustraat 19 parterre in Amsteram. They came from Westeinde 11 parterre in November 1938, where his brother Markus and his family lived. At Watteaustraat more family lived there as i.e. his father Jakob and his mother Klara and also his sister-in-law Ruth van Dam.
Since Lothar moved from Enschede to Amsterdam, he tried to earn some money as a domestic servant. From his last address at Watteaustraat, he has been taken to Westerbork and put on transport on 15 July 1942 to Auschwitz. On arrival there on 18 July, he was deployed as a forced labourer in Auschwitz.
It is not known on which date exactly Lothar Ludwig Blumenthal has lost his life. It is therefore that after the war the Ministry of Justice ordered the City of Amsterdam to draw up a certificate of death for Lothar Ludwig Blumenthal, in which has been established that he as died in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Lothar Ludwig Blumenthal; Amsterdam residence cards of Watteaustraat 19 and Haringvlietstraat 13; website joodsamsterdam.nl/hachsjara and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Lothar Ludwig Blumenthal.