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Anna Podolitsch (née Antonenko) * 1923

Schnackenburgallee 177-179 (Eimsbüttel, Eidelstedt)

HIER INTERNIERT
LAGER "RUSSMANN"
ANNA PODOLITSCH
GEB. ANTONENKO
JG. 1923
UKRAINE
ZWANGSARBEIT
BUTELLA WERK
SCHICKSAL UNBEKANNT

further stumbling stones in Schnackenburgallee 177-179:
Knabe Podolitsch

Boy Podolitsch, born on 1.5.1945 in Hamburg, died on 6.5.1945 in Hamburg.

Anna Podolitsch, née Antonenko, born 11.12.1923 in Petrowka/Charkow, forced labour, fate unknown

Schnackenburgallee 177-179 (Eidelstedt), formerly "Camp Russmann" communal camp

The boy with the surname Podolitsch was born in Hamburg on 1 May 1945.
He was not given a first name.

His parents, Anna, née Antonenko, born on 11 December 1923 in Petrowka/Charkow, and Feofan Podolitsch, born on 16 October 1923 Nikolajew, came from the Ukraine. Deported from their homeland, they came to Hamburg-Eidelstedt and were housed as "Eastern workers" in the "Russmann camp", the former Butella factory, at Schnackenburgallee 177/179.

Feofan Podolitsch, described as a "student" in the factory list, was forced to work for Menck & Hambrock GmbH, Maschinenfabrik, since April 10, 1942; Anna Podolitsch was either also a forced laborer there or for Norddeutsche Leichtmetall- und Kolbenwerke GmbH (Noleiko), Eyring & Scheelke, Eisengießerei, and was pregnant during this time.

One day before the birth of her child, she was admitted to the Eppendorf University Hospital. She gave birth to a "mature boy" in a spontaneous birth on 1 May 1945 at 1:50 am. He was 50 cm tall and weighed 3000 grams.

During the seven-day puerperium in "P 26" (Pavilion 26), Anna Podolitsch suffered from a fever for several days, on one day it was 40 degrees.
Five days later, Hamburg had already capitulated and been handed over to the British army, her newborn baby boy died there in the hospital at 3:00 a.m. on 6 May 1945. In the obituary of the university hospital, the cause of death is given as "scleroedema" (swelling and hardening of the skin as a result of severe nutritional disorders, weakness and hypothermia) and Debes as the signatory doctor.

The boy Podolitsch was 5 days old.

Eleven days after his death, his burial took place on 17 May 1945 in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, without coffin, grave location: AE 41, row 7, no. 7. His grave has not been preserved. At the end of the 1950s it was levelled, along with at least eleven other graves of the infants of forced labourers who had been buried there on the same day without a coffin.

Two days after his death, on the day the war ended, Anna Podolitsch was released from the hospital into freedom on 8 May 1945.

Stand: January 2024
© Margot Löhr

Quellen: Standesamt Hamburg-Eppendorf Geburtsregister 922/ 1945/Nr. 22; Geburtenbuch 1945 Universitätsklinik Eppendorf, Nr. 193/2223; StaH 131-1 II, 517 Listen der in Hamburg während des Zweiten Weltkrieg ums Leben gekommenen Ausländer. Band 2: Sowjetbürger, Polen, Niederländer und Belgier, S. 81; StaH 332-5 Standesämter, Sterberegister 9959 u. 1061/1945 Podolitsch; StaH 332-5 Sterbefallsammelakten 64306 u. 1061/1945 Podolitsch; http://www.zwangsarbeit-in-hamburg.de, eingesehen 17.2.2016; Archiv Friedhofsverwaltung Ohlsdorf, Beerdigungsregister 1945; Arolsen Archives, DocID: 70644098, 70644152.