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Paul Kowalewa * 1944

Essener Straße 54 (Hamburg-Nord, Langenhorn)

PAUL KOWALEWA
GEB. 20.3.1944
ERMORDET 23.9.1944

further stumbling stones in Essener Straße 54:
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Paul Kowalewa, born on 20.3.1944 in Hamburg, died on 23.9.1944

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

Paul Kowalewa was born in Hamburg on March 20, 1944. His mother Olga Kowalewa, born on May 15, 1918 in Selitschewka/Tschernigow, was of Roman Catholic faith and single. Deported from her native Ukraine, she had to perform forced labor in Hamburg since December 7, 1943, starting January 6, 1944, for Hanseatische Kettenwerk GmbH (HAK ) in Hamburg-Langenhorn. She was housed in the "Ostarbeiterlager Tannenkoppel", Weg 4, and was pregnant during this time.

On the day of the birth of her child, Olga Kowalewa was admitted to the women’s hospital Frauenklinik Finkenau, Hamburg-Uhlenhorst. Nine days after giving birth, on March 29, 1944, she returned with her son Paul to the "Tannenkoppel Eastern Workers' Camp." Paul had to spend the short time of his life in this forced labor camp. The nutritional and living conditions there were completely inadequate for him.

On September 16, 1944, he was admitted to the Langenhorn Hospital with the diagnosis of "nutritional disorders." He died there after seven days, at 0:30 a.m. on September 23, 1944. The hospital's obituary lists the cause of death as "pedatrophy" (emaciation - most severe degree of nutritional disturbance) and Blumenthal as the signing physician.

Paul was 6 months and 3 days old.

Six days after his death his burial took place on September 29, 1944 at the Ohlsdorf cemetery, grave location: Q 39, row 7, no. 11. His 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.

His mother Olga Kowaleva had to continue to do forced labor in Hamburg; on September 30, 1944 she was transferred to Hamburg-Finkenwärder, and on January 28, 1945 she was sent to the German Shipyard camp.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: February 2022
© Margot Löhr

Quellen: Standesamt Hamburg 6, Geburtsregister 540/1944 Paul Kowalewa; StaH 131-1 II, 518 Listen der während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Hamburg verstorbenen und beigesetzten ausländischen Zivilarbeiter, S. 88, S. 263; StaH 131-1 II, 519 Listen der von 1940 in Hamburger Krankenhäusern behandelten Ausländer, nach Nationalitäten geordnet, S. 128; 332-4, Ermittlungen der Registerstelle für den Internationalen Suchdienst in Arolsen und andere Stellen über den Tod ausländischer, vereinzelt auch deutscher Staatsangehöriger in der NS-Zeit, Nr. 1624; StaH 332-5 Standesämter, 9953 u. 1387/1944 Paul Kowalewa; StaH 332-8, A 48 Alphabetische Meldekartei der Ausländer 1939–1945; StaH 352-8/7 Staatskrankenanstalt Langenhorn, 184 Band 2, S. 86; 741-4, A 48, StaH 332-8, A 48 Alphabetische Meldekartei der Ausländer 1939–1945; ITS Archives, Bad Arolsen, Copy of Krankenhausliste Frauenklinik Finkenau 2.1.2.1 / 70646052, Geburtsurkunde 2.2.2.3 / 76986551 Paul Kowalewa, Sterbeurkunde 2.2.2.4 / 77090378 Paul Kowalewa, DE ITS 2.1.2.1 HA 001 11 RUS ZM/70648336; http://www.zwangsarbeit-in-hamburg.de, eingesehen 17.2.2016; Archiv Friedhofsverwaltung Ohlsdorf, Beerdigungsregister 1944.