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Wassily Szewczuk * 1908

Norderstraße 71 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hammerbrook)

1944 KZ Neuengamme
Ertrunken auf Cap Arcona 03.0.5.1945

Wassily Szewczuk, born 9 Mar. 1908 in Ukraine, perished 3 Mar. 1945 during the bombing of the ship "SS Cap Arcona"

Last home address: Norderstraße 71

Wassily Szewczuk was of Jewish-Ukrainian extraction and was a private lecturer and language teacher by profession. In Sept. 1944 he was taken to Neuengamme concentration camp and was ultimately taken on board the ship "SS Cap Arcona” at the start of May 1945 which was docked in the bay of Lübeck and filled with concentration camp prisoners. He lost his life along with thousands of other prisoners during the bombing of the ship by the British Airforce (see the explanatory notes in the article on Th. Rehbehn).


Translator: Suzanne von Engelhardt
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: January 2019
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Quellen: 1; StaH, 332-8, Meldewesen, Fotoarchiv 741-4, Meldekarten der zw. dem 1.8.1943 und 31.12.1945 Abgemeldeten und Verstorbenen; VAN (Hg.), Totenliste Hamburger Widerstandskämpfer und Verfolgter, Hamburg 1968.
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