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Otto Jantzen * 1901

Thadenstraße 96 (Altona, Altona-Altstadt)

HIER WOHNTE
OTTO JANTZEN
JG. 1901
IM WIDERSTAND
VERHAFTET 1932
GERICHTSGEFÄNGNIS ALTONA
ENTLASSEN 1934
1943 BUCHENWALD
ERMORDET 3.4.1943

Otto Jantzen, born 21.4.1901, in the resistance, 1932 arrested in Altona, released 1934, imprisoned 1943 in Buchenwald concentration camp, murdered 3.4.1943

Thadenstrasse 96, Altona-Altstadt

The shoemaker Otto Jantzen was divorced and had two children. On his admission card to Buchenwald concentration camp there is a note that he had already been in "protective custody" since mid-1937.

He was transferred to Buchenwald Concentration Camp on March 10, 1943, from Natzweiler concentration camp in then-occupied Alsace, a labor camp for the German Reich's armaments industry.

Registered as a so-called SV prisoner (Sicherungsverwahrter) with the prison number 10385, he was housed in Block 52 in the Small Camp.

Otto Jantzen died on April 3, 1943; the official cause of death was listed as "acute colitis."

His estate papers were sent to the Hamburg CID (Kriminalpolizei) at the end of April for delivery to his two minor children and divorced wife, respectively.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: February 2022
© Birgit Gewehr

Quellen: Auskunft der Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora, 19.5.2015.