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Luba Nesterowitsch * 1944

Essener Straße 54 (Hamburg-Nord, Langenhorn)

LUBA
NESTEROWITSCH
GEB. 23.4.1944
ERMORDET 10.10.1944

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Luba Nesterowitsch, born on 23.4.1944 in Hamburg, died on 10.10.1944

Essener Strasse 54 (formerly camp Tannenkoppel, Weg 4, also called "Tarpenbek = Forced labor camp of the armaments industry in Hamburg Langenhorn)

Luba Nesterowitsch was born in Hamburg on April 23, 1944. Her parents, Olga, née Justina, born on Sept. 14, 1922 (or "Aug. 10, 1922", both dates of birth are recorded on her alien registration card), in Wilejka Matzki, and Vladimir, also called Waldemar, Nesterowitsch, born on January 13, 1918 Shitkowitschi, were of Greek Catholic faith.

Deported from their hometown Shikovichi/Belarus, both had to perform forced labor in Hamburg-Billbrook. Vladimir Nesterovich arrived at the Grusonstrasse camp (at the corner of Borsigstrasse) on October 16, 1943, and was assigned to forced labor as an "armaments worker," presumably for Böhling Bros, a company for pipeline construction, mechanical engineering and apparatus engineering, and coppersmithing.

At that time, Luba Nesterowitsch was in the third month of her pregnancy. As a forced laborer for Hamburger Juteindustrie A. G, Jutefabrikate Wilhelm Schlochauer, she was housed in the unguarded camp at Liebigstraße 88. In the sixth month of her pregnancy, Olga Nesterowitsch was transferred to the Tannenkoppel camp in Hamburg-Langenhorn on January 27, 1944, and assigned to forced labor at Deutsche Messapparate GmbH (Messap) and Hanseatische Kettenwerk GmbH (HAK).

On the day her child was born, she was taken to Alsterdorf Hospital. Nine days after giving birth, Olga Nesterowitsch was released back to the "Tannenkoppel Eastern Workers' Camp" with her daughter Luba on May 2, 1944. In the following period Vladimir Nesterovich also came there and was housed in the men's camp. In the forced labor camp Tannenkoppel Luba had to spend the short time of her life. The nutritional and living conditions were completely inadequate for her there.

On September 29, 1944, she was admitted to the Langenhorn Hospital with the diagnosis "Eczema a. Head". There she died after eleven days, on October 10, 1944 at 0:30 am. The hospital's obituary lists the cause of death as "eczema of the head and extensive dermatitis" (inflammatory skin disease) and Blumenthal as the signing physician.

Luba was 5 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days old.

Nine days after her death, her burial took place on October 19, 1944 in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, grave location: Q 39, row 14, no. 9. Her grave is no longer preserved. At the end of 1959 it was levelled together with at least 146 graves of children of forced laborers on area Q 39.

In January 1945, Olga and Vladimir Nesterovich were transferred to the Finksweg camp in Hamburg-Finkenwärder for forced labor for Deutsche Werft AG.

Translation by Beate Meyer

Stand: March 2022
© Margot Löhr

Quellen: Standesamt Hamburg 1 b, Geburtsregister 408/1944 Luba Nesterowitsch; StaH 131-1 II, 518 Listen der während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Hamburg verstorbenen und beigesetzten ausländischen Zivilarbeiter, S. 90, S. 266; StaH 131-1 II, 519 Listen der von 1940 in Hamburger Krankenhäusern behandelten Ausländer, nach Nationalitäten geordnet, S. 219; StaH 332-5 Standesämter, 9953 u. 1478/1944 Luba Nesterowitsch; StaH 332-8, A 48 Alphabetische Meldekartei der Ausländer 1939–1945; StaH 741-4 Hausmeldekartei, K 2510 Weg Nr. 4; ITS Archives, Bad Arolsen, Copy of Krankenhausliste Krankenhaus Alsterdorf 2.1.2.1 / 70646172, Geburtsurkunde 2.2.2.3 / 77012595 Luba Nesterowitsch, Sterbeurkunde 2.2.2.4 / 77095756 Luba Nesterowitsch, Wladimir Nesterowitsch, 2.1.2.1., Ordner 483a Paginiernummer 63, Fundort: SK Hamburg 483a/63, 0.1 / 63470788, DE ITS 2.1.2.1 NI 063 4 RUS/70742304/70648408; http://www.zwangsarbeit-in-hamburg.de, eingesehen 17.2.2016; Archiv Friedhofsverwaltung Ohlsdorf, Beerdigungsregister 1944.