WERSJA POLSKA ZA CHWILE. NIESTETY ANDRE NIE ZNALAZL NIC DOTYCZACEGO OJCA, ALE WYJASNIL KILKA SPRAW ZWIAZANYCH Z ADMINISTRACJA, SPOSOBEM DEPORTACJI ITP.
Dear Aleksandra,
i
couldn’t find any additional information in our files. The date of
birth of the pre-liberation documents is a different one from the one
after.
I cannot say if it’s the same person, the fact that he was on the same
lists with Benjamin in Hessenthal and Allach is supporting the assumption that it is your father.
Also all documents from ITS (post-liberation)
and Gärtnerplatztheater München have the same dob. No doubt, this is
the same person (postliberation ITS & Gärtnerplatztheater)
Some
of the documents after liberation come from the Jewish Community in
Munich. Maybe, they have more information. At least it’s worth a try:
What
we can say from the ITS documents is that he was in Hessenthal
(Schwäbisch Hall). The camp existed from October 1944. Mostly polish
jews were
imprisoned and had to work there. Most of them came from the forced
labour camps around Radom (branches of KZ Lublin/Majdanek) and were
moved away from there to Auschwitz, beacause of the approaching Red
Army. The “arbeitsfähig” (“fit for work”) prisoners
were transported from there to the camp Vaihingen an der Enz, a subcamp
of Natzweiler (The main camp Natzweiler by that time was already
liberated by the allied forces. Nevertheless the subcamps of Natzweiler
east of the Rhine river existed on. The administration
in October was moved to Vaihingen). From Vaihingen, they were
transferred to Hessenthal.
On April 5th
1945 the prisoners were moved on a train to be “evacuated”/moved away
from the approaching allied forces (US Army). Only
after a couple of kilometers the train had to stop because it was
bombed by the American Airforce (it certainly wasn’t recognized as a
prisoner transport). The prisoners were from there forced on a
death-march and reached the Dachau subcamp Allach on April
14th 1945. He was assigned to Barrack Nr. 27 in Allach. 293
Prisoners coming from Hessenthal had been noted, which means that at
least 120 prisoners died on that death-march. We cannot say if from
there he was again forced on a death-march in the
direction of the alps or if he was liberated in Allach by the US Army.
Both is possible.