Group V — Slave Labour Class I Case Summaries - Part 1
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HOLOCAUST VICTIM ASSETS PROGRAMME (SWISS I3ANKS) GROUP V — SLAVE LABOUR CLASS I CASE SUMMARIES - PART 1 I. CLAIMS WITH C.255 CERTIFICATES 3101073 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 28.03.1934. From 02.11.1944 - 08.04.1945, Claimant performed slave labour at DUBNICA NAD VAHOM. During the occupation her family lived in Slovenska Volova on the edge of the village in the forest. In September 1944 in the afternoon a troop of German soldiers went around them. When they saw them they fled into the forest. The Germans knew that they were all fleeing to the partisans and they caught them all and stopped them on the way. They surrounded them with machine guns in their hands and began to search them. During this search they found foreign identity papers on one of her relatives. Then they pointed the machine guns at them and marched them to Slovenska Volova and then to Humenne on foot. There they were put into a truck and taken to Presov. They spent one night there and then in the morning were divided into two groups. They left the mothers and children together. The fathers were sent to perform forced labour in Presov, including her father. She and her mother and siblings, along with the other mothers and children, were taken to Liptovsky Mikulas. There they slept at the train station. They were cold, because they didn't have any warm clothes, because they weren't allowed to take anything with them, indeed they didn't have time. In the morning they were again loaded into the truck and taken to Dubnica nad Vahom. She stayed there in a wooden barrack with her mother and six siblings. They didn't have anything to eat, they were starving and exhausted. They collected the garbage from the rubbish heap and caught typhus. After review by the Gestapo they were all shaved bald. During these difficult conditions her mother had to clear leaves away from the camp while they held a gun to her head. She and her siblings were very afraid for her mother and thus they helped her as much as they could, even though they didn't have any warm clothing or boots. For every day that they survived in these conditions they thanked God. In later months there was harder work, because the snow fell and they had to clear it away. They tried with all their strength to work as hard as they could so that they would not give them any reason to punish them with beatings. This suffering has so affected her life that today she is sick at heart about what she lived through in the concentration camp. She will never forget it. 3101494 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 05.05.1936. From 07.08.1942 - 04.05.1943, Claimant performed slave labour at LETY U PISKU. She states only the dates that she was in the camps. 3101495 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 15.08.1925. From 10.08.1942 - 27.05.1943, Claimant performed slave labour at LETY U PISKU. In her personal statement Claimant cites a book by Czech historian, Ctibor Necas, Andr'oda taboris - Veznove protektoratnich cikanskych taboru 1942-43, Brno, 1987.(tr. 'Andr'oda taboris - Prisoners of the gypsy camps of the Protectorate, 1942- 43), p. 19. "12 members of the family were imprisoned at the Lety concentration camp. Four members of the family died at the Lety concentration camp, 8 were released to freedom. According to the account of Claimant, during the period of imprisonment at the Lety concentration camp, she was 17 years old, and all of her family worked very hard in the camp. In the camp they had to endure inhuman conditions. " 3101560 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 27.07.1924. From 22.06.1939 - 15.04.1945, Claimant performed slave labour at RAVENSBRUCK. In the camp she endured very bad treatment from the Kapo and the SS. She was hungry, they were beaten, and for washing even in winter they had only a cold shower. She sewed uniforms for the German soldiers, and was also subjected to pseudo-medical experiments. After she returned from the camps she weighed only 35 kg. 3101607 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 03.03.1926. From 15.03.1940 - 05.05.1945, Claimant performed slave labour at AUSCHWITZ and BUCHENWALD. During the war his family was in the Protectorate and tried to escape to Slovakia, but were caught and sent back, and at the border they were captured and taken to Auschwitz. His mother and father were murdered in the gas chambers. While at Auschwitz he had experiments performed on him by Dr. Mengele. Later he was transferred to Buchenwald and subsequently other camps, and was eventually liberated by American soldiers.with his entire family. 3101872 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 07.06.1929. From 02.11.1944 - 08.04.1945, Claimant performed slave labour at DUBNICA NAD VAHOM. She states only the dates that she was in the camp. 3101931 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 14.05.1926. From 05.08.1942 - 27.01.1945, Claimant performed slave labour at AUSCHWITZ. She states only the dates that she was in the camps. 2 3102226 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 04.02.1928. From 04.08.1943 - 11.04.1945, Claimant performed slave labour at AUSCHWITZ and BUCHENWALD. He states only the dates that he was in the camps. 3102336 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 27.04.1924. From 05.08.1942 - 05.05.1945, Claimant performed slave labour at HODONIN, AUSCHWITZ, DACHAU, and RAVENSBRUCK. She was taken with her mother to the camp at Hodonin where she was for about a year. There they worked building roads in the forest, very hard work, during which they were cruelly beaten. Then they were taken to Auschwitz with their relatives. She was there for about a year and then was transferred to Ravensbruck. At the end of the war she returned home. Everywhere she was she endured very bad treatment and inhuman conditions. 3102339 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 22.01.1927. From 09.05.1943 - 05.05.1945, Claimant performed slave labour at AUSCHWITZ, RAVENSBRUCK, DRAZDANY. Her mother, sister and brother died in the camps. She had to perform hard labour. 3102375 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 21.10.1933. From 05.08.1942 - 20.09.1943, Claimant performed slave labour at HODONIN U KUNSTATU. He was a boy and stayed with his mother; they were hungry. His father worked buiilding a road for the Germans. As children they had to break gravel from morning until night. 3102500 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 14.09.1926. From 11.08.1942 - 27.05.1943, Claimant performed slave labour at LETY U PISKU. She did not suffer any health effects from being imprisoned but her parents had all their property taken away. 3102550 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 16.06.1923. From 11.08.1942 - 09.12.1942, Claimant performed slave labour at LETY U PISKU, AUSCHWITZ, RAVENSBRUCK and FLOSSENBURG. On August 11, 1942 she was captured and taken, pregnant, to Lety u Pisku. She escaped from Lety in December 1942, and had a daughter in Prostejov. She was recaptured in March 1943 and sent to Auschwitz, where her child was killed by the Germans. She worked in the infirmary. She was injected with typhus by Dr. Mengele and received other injections. 3 At Flossenberg she worked in a Munich factory. She escaped on the Death March and thus saved herself. After the war she had a mentally handicapped child as a result of the experiments that were made on her. That child is still living with her. 3102557 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 09.09.1935. From 02.08.1942 - 27.07.1943, Claimant performed slave labour at LETY U PISKU. She was in the camp with her parents and her brother. Her mother died of typhus in the camp. The slave labour consisted of camp construction, agricultural work and work in the forest. Her mother worked in the carpentry shop making coffins. 3102564 Claimant is a Romani currently living in the Czech Republic. Claimant was born on 07.11.1930. From 04.08.1942 - 04.09.1943, Claimant performed slave labour at HODGKIN U KUNSTATU. She was taken to the camp with her family by train. At the camp they were building a road and she was forced to break up large rocks into gravel. She and her family were supposed to be taken to Auschwitz with the other prisoners, but because of good relations with the camp director, Mr. Stepan, they were allowed to stay behind and assist with the closing down of the camp, after which they were released. Her father was later sent to perform forced labour in Germany for the rest of the war.