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"I have a vague recollection of Ida's son Berndt. He was, prior to the Nazis, a university
student , in an honour society. He had two big cuts in his face , which he had received in
a sword-fight..." - Claude Erlanger,1997. Berndt moved from Furth to Memmingen in 1927, and opened a small business for knittware. In January 1942 he was forced to move to Fellheim (11km north of Memmingen), then to Munich, from where he was deported (April 3rd 1942) with his wife and child to Piaski concentration camp. |
| Berndt moved from Fuerth to Memmingen on October 15 1927. |
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Piaski Piaski, in the Lublin District of Poland, was both ghetto and transit point for deported Jews from Germany and Czechoslovakia on their way to nearby extermination facilities in Sobibor ___________________________________________________ In a letter to BF in Palestine, dated 26.7.1946, Hugo Gunzburger from Memmingen wrote :"Berndt Freimann, together with his wife and child, and all other Jews under 65, were deported on 1.4.1942 from Memmingen over Munchen-Wilpertshofen to Piaski near Lublin, Poland. There were ca. 1000-1200 persons on this transport, of whom nobody came back to this day. We kept receiving postcards from our Memmingen deportees for another few weeks, until they stopped in mid August. In one of the last letters we were told that a group of men, among them Berndt Freimann, were taken away from the camp one day after returning from work, and apparently murdered." _______________________________________________ Piaski Ghetto in the Lublin area, (ca. 20km ESE of Lublin, Poland). The first deportations to Piaski were Jews from Pommerania, mainly from Stettin,Germany on 12/13 Febr.1940, after March 1942 the Ghetto became more of a collection camp for transports of Jews from all over Germany and Czechoslovakia(Theresienstadt), apart from transports arriving from all parts of Poland. On 22 June 1942 ca. 6000 inhabitants were deported to Trawnicki, and on 5 November 1942 another large number of Jews were sent to Sobibor. The Ghetto was liquidated Febr./March 1943 and the remaining inhabitants were sent to the camps of Belzec and Trawnicki. _________________________________________________ |