Koffer Mania Altman | Suitcase Mania Altman

Short biography from the exhibition of the Bullenhuser Damm Memorial. Mania Altman was born on 7 April 1938 in Radom, Poland, to shoemaker Shir Altman and his wife Pola. In the spring of 1941, the German occupiers established two ghettoes in Radom, where the Jewish population had to live. The Altman family was later deported from the Radom ghetto to the Pionki labour camp which belonged to a gunpowder factory, and from there on to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944. Mania Altman was taken to the Neuengamme concentration camp on 28 November 1944 and murdered on Bullenhuser Damm on 20 April 1945 aged 7.