Biography Marek James

This journal contains deepening material of the exhibition at the memorial site Bullenhuser Damm. Marek James was one of twenty children, who were murdered on 20th April 1945 at Bullenhuser Damm. Marek James was born on 17 March 1939 in Poland. He lived with his parents Adam and Zela James at 52 Traugutta Street in Radom. Following the occupation of the city by the German Wehrmacht, the family was forced to live in one of the two Radom ghettoes. In 1943, the three members of the James family were deported to the Pionki labour camp near Radom, which belonged to a gunpowder factory. From there, they were transferred to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944, where Marek was given the prisoner number B 1159.