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Anna Podolitsch (née Antonenko) * 1923

Schnackenburgallee 177-179 (Eimsbüttel, Eidelstedt)

HIER INTERNIERT
LAGER "RUSSMANN"
ANNA PODOLITSCH
GEB. ANTONENKO
JG. 1923
UKRAINE
ZWANGSARBEIT
BUTELLA WERK
SCHICKSAL UNBEKANNT

further stumbling stones in Schnackenburgallee 177-179:
Knabe Podolitsch

Boy Podolitsch, born on 1.5.1945 in Hamburg, died on 6.5.1945 in Hamburg

Anna Podolitsch, née Antonenko, born on 17.9.1920 in Achdivka, forced labour, fate unknown
(the different date of birth on the stumbling block is based on outdated research)

Schnackenburgallee 177-179 (Eidelstedt), formerly "Lager Russmann" communal camp

The parents of the boy Podolitsch, Anna, née Antonenko, born on September 17, 1920 (or 1919) in Achdivka, and Feofan Podolitsch, born on October 16, 1923 in Nikolajew, came from the Ukraine. Deported from their homeland, they came to Hamburg-Eidelstedt and were housed as "Eastern labourers" in the "Russmann camp", the former Butella factory at Schnackenburgallee 177/179.

Feofan Podolitsch, described as a "pupil" in the factory list, had to perform forced labour for Menck & Hambrock GmbH, a machine factory, from 10 April 1942.
Anna, listed under her maiden name Antonenko, was employed there as a factory kitchen assistant. (Another list shows an Anna Antonenko, born Dec 11,1923 in Petrowka/Charkow. It is not possible to clarify whether this is a further difference in birth dates or another person with the same name).

One day before the birth of her child, she was admitted to the Eppendorf University Hospital. She gave birth to a "mature boy" in a spontaneous delivery on May 1, 1945 at 1:50 am. He was 50 cm tall and weighed 3000 grams. During the seven-day puerperium in "P 26" (Pavilion 26), Anna Podolitsch suffered from a fever for several days, on one day it was 40 degrees.

Five days later, Hamburg had already surrendered and been handed over to the British army, her newborn baby boy died there in hospital on May 6, 1945 at 3:00 am. The University Hospital's death notice states the cause of death as "scleroedema" (swelling and hardening of the skin due to severe nutritional disorders, weakness and hypothermia) and Debes as the signing doctor.

The boy Podolitsch was 5 days old.

Eleven days after his death, his burial took place on May 17, 1945 at Ohlsdorf Cemetery, without a coffin, grave location: AE 41, row 7, no. 7. His grave has not been preserved. It was levelled at the end of the 1950s, together with at least eleven other graves of the infants of forced labourers who had been buried there without a coffin on the same day.

Two days after his death, on the day the war ended, Anna Podolitsch was released from hospital on May 8, 1945.


Stand: February 2025
© Margot Löhr

Quellen: Standesamt Hamburg-Eppendorf Geburtsregister 922/ 1945/Nr. 22; Geburtenbuch 1945 Universitätsklinik Eppendorf, Nr. 193/2223; StaH 131-1 II, 517 Listen der in Hamburg während des Zweiten Weltkrieg ums Leben gekommenen Ausländer. Band 2: Sowjetbürger, Polen, Niederländer und Belgier, S. 81; StaH 332-5 Standesämter, Sterberegister 9959 u. 1061/1945 Podolitsch; StaH 332-5 Sterbefallsammelakten 64306 u. 1061/1945 Podolitsch; http://www.zwangsarbeit-in-hamburg.de, eingesehen 17.2.2016; Archiv Friedhofsverwaltung Ohlsdorf, Beerdigungsregister 1945; Arolsen Archives, DocID: 70644070, 70644098, 70644152, 70646456; https://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/?MAIN_ID=7&BIO_ID=6647.