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Alice Dubova (née Glatterova) * 1912

Randowstraße gegenüber Nr. 14 (am Gedenkstein) (Altona, Lurup)

ALICE DUBOVA
GEB. GLATTEROVA
JG. 1912
DEPORTIERT 1941
THERESIENSTADT
1944 AUSCHWITZ
ZWANGSARBEIT
KZ-AUSSENLAGER EIDELSTEDT
ERMORDET 1.3.1945

further stumbling stones in Randowstraße gegenüber Nr. 14 (am Gedenkstein):
Knabe Domaracka, Knabe Dub, Julianna Malinowska, Marianne Taus

The boy with the surname Dub, whose mother's name was Alice Dubova, was born in Hamburg in January 1945, murdered as a newborn

Alice Dubova, nee Glatterova, born 26.4.1912 in Lucenec/Benesov, died on 1.3.1945 in Hamburg

Memorial stone opposite Randowstraße 14 (today Hamburg-Lurup)
Former Eidelstedt subcamp- Friedrichshulder Weg

The mother of the newborn. Alice Dubova, née Glatterova, was born on April 26, 1912 in Lucenec/Benesov, which belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until 1918, then to Czechoslovakia, from 1938 to 1945 to Hungary again and is now part of Slovakia. She was Jewish and the daughter of Augusta, née Herczova, and Josef Glatter. Her husband, the friction technician Pavel Dub, born on June 18, 1911 in Benesov, also came from a Jewish family and was the son of Hermina, née Steinerova, and Rudolf Dub. Alice and Pavel Dub lived in Prague XI, Havlickova 987 in 1938.
According to Czech naming law, her son would have had the surname Dub.

In December 1941, both were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Two and a half years later, on 15 May 1944, they were deported to Auschwitz. When they were separated there, Alice Dubova was pregnant. Her husband Pavel Dub was murdered in Auschwitz.

Alice Dubova belonged to a group of Jewish Czechoslovakian and Hungarian women from the Auschwitz concentration camp who were selected for a work assignment and taken to Hamburg on July 17, 1944, first to the Dessauer Ufer camp for forced labour in the port area, then to the Wedel women's camp. On September 27, 1944, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the highest Jewish holiday, they were transferred to the Eidelstedt satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, right next to the goods station, today Friedrichshulder Weg.

The women had to do hard labour: clearing bomb rubble, building dykes, hauling sacks of cement and bricks and erecting makeshift buildings for the bombed-out residents of Hamburg. Their camp commander was the notorious SS man Walter Kümmel. He is said to have always carried a rubber whip with him and beat the women.
Alice, known as "Lisa", Dubova was able to keep her pregnancy a secret in Auschwitz and even in Hamburg, in constant fear of being transferred back if it became known. (It is possible that during her stay in the Dessauer Ufer camp, she had witnessed the two Jewish Czech women, Ruth Huppert and Berta Reich, being sent back to a concentration camp three days after their arrival because of their pregnancies).

Around mid-January, Alice Dubova gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the Eidelstedt camp with the help of the "camp doctor" Ruzena Zimmerova and the "prisoner nurse" Luise Haarburger, alias Wassermann. According to contemporary witnesses, SS man Walter Kümmel is said to have drowned the newborn boy in a bucket of water, thrown him into a rubbish bin and then called it a stillbirth, just as he had done with the newborn son of fellow prisoner Ruzena Domaracka (see www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de), who had arrived a month earlier. The birth and death of both boys were not recorded in the Hamburg death register.

Alice Dubova was one of the 14 victims of a tram accident on March 1, 1945: on the way back from a work assignment in the city, a large apartment building on Steindamm, which had been destroyed by bombs, collapsed onto the tram. She was buried on March 12, 1945 at Ohlsdorf cemetery, grave site Bp 74, row 55, no. 24, in a collective grave with two unknown deceased and Frieda Siegelmann, another victim of the tram accident. Today, the grave belongs to the "Victims of various nations" burial ground. A gravestone slab with their names engraved on it still commemorates them today, but Alice, as recorded in the death register and not the Prague documents, with the surname "Dub".

Much too late after the war, charges were brought against Walter Kümmel in an investigation before the Hamburg Regional Court for the murder of the two newborn babies of Ruzena Domaracka and Alice Dubova in the Eidelstedt subcamp. His involvement in the killing of the newborns was only categorised by the court as accessory to murder. The judgement stated that Kümmel could not be proven to have had base motives - and that the crime had been time-barred since 1960. Kümmel was acquitted in 1982.

In a television programme about the Eidelstedt camp, Kümmel himself commented on the accusations and said that there had been no possibility of accommodating the children in the Eidelstedt camp, literally: "That's why they insisted that they should be killed, the children. That was a secret order!"

Companies profiting from forced labour:
City of Hamburg
Saar-Bauindustrie AG Saarlautern, Hamburg branch, Schauenburgerstraße 15
Large company for all building construction and civil engineering, concrete and reinforced concrete construction, mining and metallurgical buildings.

Stand: February 2025
© Margot Löhr

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