Robert Leonhard Pollack

Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:

• Pollack, Robert Leonhard
• geboren am 20. Juli 1913
• in Frankfurt a. Main/Hessen-Nassau
• wohnhaft in Lörrach
• INTERNIERUNG/INHAFTIERUNG
• 24. Juli 1943 - 04. September 1944,
• Westerbork, Sammellager
• EMIGRATION
• 26. April 1934, Niederlande
• DEPORTATION
• ab Westerbork
• 04. September 1944, Theresienstadt, Ghetto
• 29. September 1944, Auschwitz, Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager
• Groß-Rosen, Konzentrationslager
• Brünnlitz, Außenlager KZ Groß-Rosen
• TODESDATUM
• 30. April 1945
• TODESORT
• Brünnlitz, Außenlager KZ Groß-Rosen
• für tot erklärt

Robert, his parents, brother and sister fled from Frankfurt, Germany already early on to Amsterdam, Netherlands. They opened the first German immigrants business in Holland, a lunchroom and ice-salon in the heart of the German colony in Amsterdam, the Beethovenstreet. To invite also local patrons, they had a sign that read: "We also speak Dutch!".... Robert became engaged to Charlotte (Lotte) Reinhaus, who escaped from Germany in 1935 to Amsterdam. They were married April 1942 and as the last Jews from Amsterdam deported to Westerbork transitcamp on July 23 1943. This due to their task to provide food from the lunchroom to the "Hollandsche Schouwburg" in Amsterdam, the collection center from where all the Jews from Amsterdam where deported to Westerbork. After Westerbork, Robert and Lotte were deported to Theresienstadt on September 4,1944 from where Robert was deported to Auschwitz on September 29, 1944. A few days later he was transported to the Golleschau quarry slave camp. He was put to work in the most difficult "workcommando" the quarry commando. He was one of the 120 men who were put on a transport that took 10 days to arrive at Bruenlitz where Oscar Schindler saved the 74 still living men and took them into his Bruenlitz camp. Robert was listed as one of "Schindler's Jews" with profession "cook". He died in Bruenlitz one week before the liberation on April 30, 1945.

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