Life_under_Siege_The_Jews_of_Magdeburg_under_Nazi_Rule.pdf

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On 26 February 1943, at least forty-six Jews from Magdeburg were deported
directly from Berlin to Auschwitz-Birkenau. 240 The Natowitz family, consisting of
thirty-seven-year-old Leopold and his three daughters, Mia, Doris and Miriam,
aged eight, five and two years old respectively, missed this final mass deportation
owing to their attempted escape. Once apprehended, they were returned to
Magdeburg, transported to Berlin, and on 2 March 1943, they were deported
directly to Auschwitz-Birkenau. 241
The last mass deportation and the fourth to Theresienstadt left Magdeburg on
11 January 1944, consisting of sixteen Jews. 242 During the entire deportation
period an unknown number of Jews from Magdeburg were also deported or
imprisoned individually, such as young Rita Vogelhut. This ten-year-old girl was
transported from Magdeburg to Berlin and from there deported to Theresienstadt
on 29 June 1943. She remained there until 18 May 1944, when she was deported
on to Auschwitz-Birkenau. 243 In addition, 184 Jews born in Magdeburg, whose
domicile was elsewhere, were also deported. Of this figure, 153 of them lived in
Berlin up until their deportations. 244 Their journeys ended in Auschwitz-Birkenau,
Kovno, Lodz, Majdanek, Minsk, Riga, Theresienstadt and Trawniki. 245
240
Betr.: Petition Magdeburger Opfer des Holocaust, 12 March 2001, ASGM, pp. 13–
19.
241
Ibid., p. 17. As all of the deportees were deported directly from Berlin, their details
are also to be found in Zentralinstitut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Freie
Universität Berlin, ed., op. cit.
242
List of deported Jews from Magdeburg to Theresienstadt, Transport XX/4, 11
January 1944, Collection 0.64, File 271, YVA, op. cit., p. 59.
243
Institut Theresienstädter Initiative, ed., op. cit., p. 219.
244
Betr.: Petition Magdeburger Opfer des Holocaust, 12. März 2001, ASGM, op. cit.,
pp. 1–19.
245
Ibid.