User:BorisSchumacher

The search for Boris Schumacher

In 1920 the police in Paris found a headless body, with hands and feet tied, floating in the Signe.

At first the police thought that it was the body of a disappeared millionaire “Desjardin”, his body was found later intact, and Desjardin could therefore be identified.

Just before the headless body, was to be buried. A hotel owner from “Joinville le Pont” (the hotel was called “The Good Corner “), near Paris told the police that the description of the body fitted with de description of a mysterious guest from his hotel.

The guest had been missing for some time (marts 02. 1920) Investigations resulted in the conclusion that this was the body of “Boris Schumacher” (Schumacker). Boris was believed to be in connection with the Communist underground in Paris at that time.

In Boris hotel room at Joinville le Pont the police found some political documents and evidence that indicated that Mr. Schumacher / Schumacker had been a member of a revolutionary organisation in Germany and Russia.

The police found evidence that Mr. Schumacher had been travelling to North America, Scandinavia, Japan, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, England and France during the war.

The Police found a Passport, issued in USA.

Boris had been working in America as a reporter at the newspaper “ Der Tog “ / “The Day” in New York,( 444 Pearl Street ) and Jewish Daily News ( on 185 –187 E. Broadway).

The hotel owner informed the police he believed that Schumacher / Schumacker were soon leaving for Poland. This tells me that the police in Paris had in its possession in 1920 some documents, and a passport from the hotel room in Joinville le Pont.

My great-grandmother “Gudrun” was from Iceland and was living in Copenhagen, Denmark around 1913 -1918. In Copenhagen she met a man from the Jewish part of Poland / Lithuania probably Vilna / Vilnius. His name was Boris Schumacher.

Boris and Gudrun had a child (my grandmother) born in December 1915. Boris disappeared shortly after my grandmother’s birth, and Gudrun never heard from him again.

In 1920 after Gudrun had moved to Iceland, a friend of her living in Copenhagen, sends her a newspaper clip from Denmark. In the paperclip there is a history about a headless body found in Signe, believed to be Boris Schumacher.

I know that this is a far out story. But my family would like to try to find out something more about this man.

Maybe, if there are some old archives and journals regarding the body that was found in Paris? And because this is a murder case that was not solved.

If someone has information please help me and my family in finding out something about this man.

If there are any items from the investigation in 1920 could you please tell me what they found in the hotel room.

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