Biography Lelka Birnbaum

A list of children’s names in the concentration camp Neuengamme which was published in the book Rapport fra Neuengamme in Denmark in 1945 includes the name Birnbaum for a 12-year-old girl from Poland. Her full name, Lelka Birnbaum, is noted on the cover sheet of an x-ray taken in the cause of one of Heißmeyer’s experiments. Lelka Birnbaum was murdered with 19 other Jewish children on Bullenhuser Damm on 20th April 1945.


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Media Type:
text
Media format:
digital media
Language:
english
Author:
Iris Groschek, Kristina Vagt
Publisher:
KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme
Year of publication:
2011
Rights:
All rights reserved.



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