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Elsa Borisowa * 1944

Essener Straße 54 (Hamburg-Nord, Langenhorn)

ELSA BORISOWA
GEB. 9.3.1944
ERMORDET 5.10.1944

further stumbling stones in Essener Straße 54:
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Elsa Borisowa, born on 9.3.1944 in Hamburg, died on 5.10.1944

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

Elsa Borisowa was born in Hamburg on March 9, 1944. Her mother Julija Borisowa, born in Smolensk on November 10, 1928, was of Roman Catholic faith and single. Deported from her native Russia, she had to perform forced labor for Hanseatische Kettenwerk GmbH (HAK) in Hamburg-Langenhorn since October 29, 1943. She was housed in the "Ostarbeiterlager Tannenkoppel", Weg 4, and was pregnant during this time.

On the day her child was born, fifteen-and-a-half-year-old Julija Borisowa was admitted to the Finkenau Women's Clinic, Hamburg-Uhlenhorst. Nine days after the delivery, on March 18, 1944, she returned with her daughter Elsa to the Tannenkoppel camp. Elsa had to spend the short time of her life in this forced labor camp. The nutritional and living conditions there were completely inadequate for her.

On August 24, 1944, she was admitted to the Langenhorn General Hospital with a diagnosis of "nutritional disorder and cold symptoms." She died there after seven weeks, at 8:30 a.m. on October 5, 1944. The hospital's obituary lists the cause of death as "pedatrophy" (emaciation - most severe degree of nutritional disorder) and Blumenthal as the signing physician.

Elsa was 6 months, 3 weeks and 5 days old.

Six days after her death her burial took place on October 12, 1944 in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, grave location: Q 39, row 7, no. 36. Her 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.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: February 2022
© Margot Löhr

Quellen: Standesamt Hamburg 6, Geburtsregister 488/1944 Elsa Borisowa; StaH 131-1 II, 518 Listen der während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Hamburg verstorbenen und beigesetzten ausländischen Zivilarbeiter, S. 89, S. 257; StaH 131-1 II, 519 Listen der 1940 in Hamburger Krankenhäusern behandelten Ausländer, nach Nationalitäten geordnet, S. 210; 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. 1271; StaH 332-5 Standesämter, 9953 u. 1450/1944 Elsa Borisowa; StaH 332-8, A 48 Alphabetische Meldekartei der Ausländer 1939–1945; ITS Archives, Bad Arolsen, Copy of Krankenhausliste Frauenklinik Finkenau 2.1.2.1 / 70646046, Geburtsurkunde 2.2.2.3 / 76935057 Elsa Borisowa, Sterbeurkunde 2.2.2.4 / 77080346 Elsa Borisowa, DE ITS 2.1.2.1 HA 001 11 RUS ZM/70648177; http://www.zwangsarbeit-in-hamburg.de, eingesehen 17.2.2016; Archiv Friedhofsverwaltung Ohlsdorf, Beerdigungsregister 1944.