Regina Zielinski
Regina Zielinski (* September 2, 1924 in Siedliszcze , Poland as Regina Feldmann ; † September 12, 2014 ) reached the Sobibor extermination camp on December 20, 1942 with another 800 Jewish people with a horse transport from the Staw-Nowosiólki labor camp nearby came from Chełm . She was one of the few surviving women in the extermination camp.
Camp and escape
Regina Zielinski-Feldman and some young Jewish women were selected as labor inmates to knit socks in the camp. She later came to the laundry sorting barracks and was also used to clean up booty ammunition and last worked as a seamstress before the Sobibór uprising .
She was beaten up by SS Oberscharführer Gustav Franz Wagner , the commandant of Camp III, one of the most brutal SS men in the camp, in such a way that one of her kidneys was permanently damaged and had to be removed after the war. She was therefore in a hospital for five months after the Second World War.
She escaped during the Sobibór uprising . In her place of birth, she received a birth certificate from an acquaintance and volunteered to work in Germany under a false name. So she got to Frankfurt, where she worked under a false identity as a nanny in a German family. She married the Polish soldier Kazimierz Zielinski on December 24, 1945. She and her husband emigrated to Sydney , Australia on August 3, 1949 .
She later lived in Brighton in the state of Victoria in Australia and reported to numerous school classes about her experiences in Sobibor.
Surviving women
Only 47 people survived the Sobibor extermination camp. Among the survivors at the end of World War II were the women:
- Hella Felenbaum-Weiss
- Eda Lichtman (née Fischer)
- Zelda Metz-Kelbermann
- Estera Raab
- Ursula Stern (married Ilona Safran)
- Selma Wijnberg (married Engel)
literature
- Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp. Unrast, Hamburg, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-814-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Royal: Wedding ring found at Nazi concentration camp might have Adelaide connection. Australian Broadcasting Corporation , Oct. 24, 2014.
- ↑ adelaidenow.com : Anniversary of the Sobibor extermination camp uprising recognized in exhibition at National Wine Center (English), October 13, 2013, accessed on October 15, 2013
- ^ Name after Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp. P. 273 ff. (See literature)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zielinski, Regina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feldman, Regina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Survivors of the Sobibór extermination camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siedliszcze , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 2014 |