Thursday, July 20, 2023

Numerous Jewish families that survived the Holocaust were those that worked (forced labor) in Piotrków factories. What was special was the fact that the families were allowed to stay together, mothers, fathers, and children. In December 1944, he and his son were sent to Buchenwald, while his wife was sent to Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen. In Buchenwald, he was separated from his son and sent to Berga, and from there, on a death march from which he was liberated by the Soviet Army on May 9, 1945. He reunited with his wife and son in Bergen-Belsen in June 1945.

The Children from Piotrków through Theresienstadt to England - Airlift by British Lancaster bombers.



Ben (Beniek) Helfgott and his father Moszek were deported in December 1944 to concentration camp Buchenwald. His mother Sura and little sister Lusia were murdered during the Aktion in 1942. When deported from Buchenwald to Theresienstadt Ben learned that his ­father had been shot a few days earlier as he tried to escape from a death march that was headed to Theresien­stadt. His father was 38 when he was killed.


The last photo was taken in Prague in August 1945 before the transfer to England.


England - girls.


History

The ghetto in Piotrków was the first ghetto in occupied Poland.

Deportations to the death camp Treblinka started from the Piotrków Ghetto in October 1942. In one week approximately 20 000 Jews were rounded up and deported to Treblinka. Numerous families were split during this action and the survivors of this action lived in the compounds close to the Piotrków factories where they were slave workers. Thereafter, there was another deportation, this time not to the death camp but to concentration camps read HAASAG factories at the beginning of 1943. In other actions, Piotrków Jews were rounded up and killed in nearby woods.

In December 1944 Jews from the Piotrków factories where they worked as force labour, they were sent to the Buchenwald and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Numerous men sent to Buchenwald were divided, and part of them were sent to a subcamp och Buchenwald, the concentration camp in Schlieben (Berga). In April 1945 they were transported to Theresienstadt and liberated there after three weeks.

Airlift from Theresienstadt/Prag by British Lancaster bombers.

The British government agreed to take a thousand young survivors. However, only 732 could be found in the Prague area. The airlift was organized by the Central British Fund and by Jewish refugee organizations. On 14 August 1945 a dozen Lancaster bombers carried three hundred children, who had been incarcerated at the Theresienstadt camp, out of Prague. They were flown to Carlisle, England. Forty of them had tuberculosis. Further, transports arrived in the following twelve months, altogether 732 children, of them were only 80 girls.

I am looking for the names, and original lists from that airlift including the people from Piotrków that were inmates in Buchenwald/Schlieben and were transported to the Theresienstadt camp and also thereafter to England.




From the files available in the Arolsen Archives' collection 3.1.1.3/0190/0118 – 0132, 0138 – 0140.









Another list concerning the Airlift from Theresienstadt to England.


Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Nie wiem kiedy zacząłem pisać książkę o Korczaku?



Nie wiem kiedy zacząłem pisać książkę o Korczaku?
Wiem że od zeszłego Millenium próbowałem korygować tak często występujące niesciłosci (czyt. bzdury).

https://jimbaotoday.blogspot.com/2006/11/bilden-ovan-r-frn-warszawa-dr-man-i.html

What happened with 354 Piotrków Jews that were deported to Buchenwald on December 2, 1944.


Keywords, marks.
354 - Neuzugänge
Block 58
HASAG Werk Schlieben (Schlieben-Berga)
V

The Jews that arrived in the cattle wagons to Buchenwald were divided into four different groups. The entire transport was called "354 - Neuzugänge" which means 354 newcomers.
60 of them were directed to 58 -  Block 58 - Barrack 58
294 of them were according to the list, sent to H which means HASAG Werk Schlieben
v is marked at most of the names - I do not know what it means, probably just presence. 
It is likely that 21 children 2-16 years old were included in this group. This group of children was sent in January 1945 to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The Jews that arrived in the cattle wagons to Buchenwald were divided into four different groups. The entire transport was called "354 - Neuzugänge" which means 354 newcomers. 60 of them were directed to 58 - Block 58 - Barrack 58. 294 of them were according to the list, sent to H which means HASAG Werk Schlieben. v is marked at most of the names - I do not know what it means, probably just presence. It is likely that 21 children, see the photo below, 2-16 years old were included in this group. This group of children was sent in January 1945 to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The Jews that arrived in the cattle wagons to Buchenwald were divided into four different groups. The entire transport was called "354 - Neuzugänge" which means 354 newcomers. 60 of them were directed to 58 - Block 58 - Barrack 58. 294 of them were according to the list, sent to H which means HASAG Werk Schlieben. v is marked at most of the names - I do not know what it means, probably just presence. It is likely that 21 children, see photo above, 2-16 years old were included in this group. This group of children was sent in January 1945 to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.