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Grabstein von Mina Buijs
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Mina Buijs * 1921

Langenhorner Chaussee 625 (Hamburg-Nord, Langenhorn)

HOLLAND
ZWANGSARBEIT
EINGEWIESEN 30.8.1943
KRANKENHAUS ALSTERDORF
TOT 9.9.1943

further stumbling stones in Langenhorner Chaussee 625:
Alexandera Daschewskaja, Leonid Dubik, Grigor Gonsarenko, Ewgenia Masalewskaja, Prokop Moskalenko, Sofia Nietrzebka, Albino Pietrogiovanna, Semjon Pogrebnikow, Marija Tschechanowitsch, Dimitri Woloschin

Mina Buijs, born on 15.1.1921 in Rotterdam, died on 9.9.1943 in Hamburg

Langenhorner Chaussee next to 625, memorial site

Mina Buijs was born on January 15, 1921 in Rotterdam, was single and of Protestant faith. Deported from her native Holland to Hamburg-Langenhorn, she had to perform forced labor in the armaments industry for Hanseatische Kettenwerk GmbH (HAK) and was housed in the "Gemeinschaftslager Tarpenbeck", Weg 4.

On August 30, 1943, she was admitted to the Alsterdorf General Hospital with the diagnosis "pectoralis phlegmone" (breast abscess). After ten days, Mina Buijs died there on September 9, 1943 at 4:15 am. The hospital's death notice states the cause of death as "abscess in the armpit area, pulmonary embolism".

Mina Buijs was 22 years old.

Five days later, on September 14, 1943 at 11:00 a.m., she was buried by the Schröder funeral company "with decorations, plants and harmonium and organ music" at the Ohlsdorf cemetery. She was placed in a collective grave with nine unknown deceased, grave location Bp 73, row 20, no. 22.

In November 1952, her mortal remains were transferred to the area of the Dutch war graves, grave site Bp 73, R. A, No. 11. A light-colored natural stone tombstone from the Koninkrijk der Niederlande with a carved coat of arms* and her name and date of birth and death still commemorates her there today.

Stand: August 2024
© Margot Löhr

Quellen: StaH, 131-1 II, 518 Listen der während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Hamburg verstorbenen und beigesetzten ausländischen Zivilarbeiter, S. 170, u. 519 Ausländer in Hamburgischen Krankenhäusern und Heimen; StaH, 332-5 Standesämter, Sterbefallsammelakten, 64254 u.1100/1943 Mina Baijs; StaH, 332-5 Standesämter, Sterberegister, 9944 u.1100/1943 Mina Baijs; Archiv Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Beerdigungsregister 1943 Nr. 6487; Arolson Archives, Krankenhausliste Krankenhaus Alsterdorf Copyof 2.1.2.1/70646161 Mina Buijs; Namenliste Niederländische Kriegsgräber Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, Buijs, http://grabsteine.genealogy.net/namelist.php?cem=911, eingesehen am: 30.3.2022. *Der Löwe im Wappenschild hält ein Schwert und ein Bündel von sieben Pfeilen. Der Löwe entstammt dem Wappen des Hauses Nassau, das Schwert und die Pfeile dem Wappen der Generalstaaten aus der Zeit der Republik der Sieben Vereinigten Niederlande.