Biography Mania Altman
This journal contains deepening material of the exhibition at the memorial site Bullenhuser Damm. Mania Altman was one of twenty children, who were murdered on 20th April 1945 at Bullenhuser Damm. Mania Altman was born on 7 April 1938 in Radom, Poland, to shoemaker Shir Altman and his wife Pola. The Altmans had a large extended family in Radom, which included Shir Altman’s six siblings with their families. 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.
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text
Media format:
digital media
Language:
english
Author:
Iris Groschek, Kristina Vagt
Publisher:
KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme
Year of publication:
2011
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All rights reserved.