Koffer Eleonora Witońska | Suitcase Eleonora Witońska

Short biography from the exhibition of the Bullenhuser Damm Memorial. Eleonora Witońska was born on 16 September 1939. The Witonski children had to witness the shooting of their father on the holiday of Purim in the spring of 1943. After this incident, the children lived in terrible fear of the SS in the Radom ghetto. Rucza Witońska and her children were later deported to Auschwitz and imprisoned together in the women’s camp before the children were separated from their mother. On 28 November 1944, Eleonora Witońska was taken to the Neuengamme concentration camp, and she was murdered on Bullenhuser Damm on 20 April 1945 aged 5.