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Iwan Poliwara * 1944

Essener Straße 54 (Hamburg-Nord, Langenhorn)

IWAN POLIWARA
GEB. 10.7.1944
ERMORDET 30.1.1945

further stumbling stones in Essener Straße 54:
Tamara Balenow, Elfriede Barabanowa, Jury Belikowa, namenloses Mädchen Beltschikowa, Walentina Beretschnoj, Victor Bilous, Elsa Borisowa, Vladimir Bowton, Leopold Colman, Anatoli Dubskaja, Serge Duvert, Max Ernest Duvert, Knabe Fedyk, Swetlana Harkawtschuk, Anatoli Kobilko, Luja Kolomejtschuk, Ilda Konforowitsch, Waldemar Kosowzow, Schura Kotschezeschko, Paul Kowalewa, Alex Kritzkaja, Valentin Lewonenko, Raisa Lomonossowa, Josef Mrosowska, Galina Nasarowa, Luba Nesterowitsch, Alexandra Nikolajew, Maria Ostagowa, Sina Paratschenko, Annatoli Podwinskaja, Damara Pogrebnikowa, Lydia Poliwara, Regina Larissa Prieditis, Iwan Ragulina, Wasilij Romanenko, Alexander Sabluswitschke, Klawa Schurawel, Anatoli Slusar, Namenloses Mädchen Solowey, Knabe Stefa, Valentin Tkatschow, Viktor Tomaschuk, Luba Tulup, Sigmund Tuschinska, René-Yves Vitel, Boris Wenik, Genja Woronez, Walodja Woronzow, Anatoli Zebenko

Iwan Poliwara, born on 10.7.1944 in Hamburg, died on 30.1.1945

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

Iwan Poliwara was born in Hamburg on July 10, 1944. His mother Uliana Poliwara, born on December 22, 1923 in Morisiwka, was of Roman Catholic faith and single. Deported from her native Russia, she had to perform forced labor in Hamburg-Langenhorn for Hanseatische Kettenwerk GmbH (HAK) and Deutsche Meßapparate GmbH (Messap). She was housed in the "Ostarbeiterlager Tannenkoppel", Weg 4.

On the day of the birth of her twins, Uliana Poliwara was admitted to the Women’s hospital (Frauenklinik) Finkenau, Hamburg-Uhlenhorst. Eight days after giving birth, on July 18, 1944, she returned to the Tannenkoppel camp with her two children, Iwan and Lydia. There Iwan and Lydia had to spend the short time of their lives. The nutritional and living conditions were completely inadequate for them.

On September 27, 1944, Iwan's twin sister Lydia died in the Langenhorn General Hospital; the stated cause of death was "pedatrophy" (emaciation - the most severe degree of nutritional disorder).

Iwan then lived in the "Ostarbeiterlager" Tannenkoppel for four more months. Much too late he was taken to a hospital. On January 30, 1945, he died on the way to the Eppendorf University Hospital. The death notice from the Eppendorf registry office lists "enteritis" (inflammation of the intestines) as the cause of death and "Faue" (?) as the signing physician.

Iwan was 6 months, 2 weeks and 6 days old.

Fifteen days after his death, on February 14, 1945, his burial, like that of his twin sister before, took place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, grave location: Q 39, row 10, no. 16. His grave and that of his sister are no longer preserved. At the end of 1959 they were buried together with at least 146 graves of children of forced laborers on area Q 39.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: March 2022
© Margot Löhr

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