About Emanuel Hamburger

Emanuel Hamburger was a Master of Law. He was unmarried. Emanuel Hamburger was chairman of the SDAP in Dordrecht. He worked as a teacher at the higher secondary school in Dordrecht. He was deposed from his job as a Jew.
Emanuel Hamburger joined the resistance. He was actively involved with helping people going into hiding and distributing illegal literature. He was betrayed by a former pupil who worked for the Sicherheitsdienst. On 6 December 1944, he was arrested in Rotterdam. After his arrest, he was transferred via the police presinct in Rotterdam at the Haagsche Veer to the penal prison in Scheveningen. In retaliation for an attack on the NSB-mayor of Nieuw-Beijerland, Emanuel Hamburger was executed in Heinenoord at the age of 43.
NIOD, Erelijst Verzet en Koopvaardij, database made by J.W. de Leeuw;
M. Jansen, ’Drie eeuwen joods leven in Dordrecht‘, in: Joods leven in Dordrecht (Gemeentelijke archiefdienst Dordrecht 1988) 35, 39