Willy Nathan
Vita
(LEA) Nathan, willy 23.12.1921 Pirmasens, verst. 08.05.1945 KZ Majdanek
Dreher
Wohnort zur Zeit der Schädigung: St. Ingbert
(ML) Willy Nathan
23.12.1921 in Pirmasens / - / Bayern (Pfalz)
Verfolgungsgrund: rassisch
Gestorben an den Folgen der NS-Verfolgung
Todesdatum: vor 08.05.1945
Aufenthalt: Pirmasens / Pirmasens / Stkrs. Pirmasens / Land Bayern / Deutsches Reich
Emigration nach: France
Deportation: 04.03.1943
Deportiert ab: Drancy (Transit Camp)
Zielort der Deportation: Majdanek, Concentration and Extermination Camp
(RS) LEA, Drancy, Transport No. 50
(GB-BA) Nathan, Willy
geboren am 23. Dezember 1921
in Pirmasens/Bayern (Pfalz)
wohnhaft in Pirmasens
Emigration Frankreich
Deportation ab Drancy
04. März 1943, Majdanek, Konzentrationslager
(MS) Willy NATHAN 23/12/1921 PIRMASENS
Origine nationale: Réfugié sarrois
Profession: Tanneur
Adresse: 109, rue Bugeaud, LYON
Numéro de convoi:N°50
Date de départ du convoi: 04/03/1943
Lieu de départ du convoi: Drancy
Camp de destination: Sobibor
(Source :Liste originale du convoi de déportation)
(G40) Nathan, Willy
* 23.12.1921 in Pirmasens; ✡ unbekannt, in Majdanek
Familienstand: ledig
Beruf: Dreher
Religion: israelitisch
Nathan, Willy, Dreher, *23.12.1921 Pirmasens, Eltern: Sally Nathan und Irene Dreifuß. Er kam am 24.02.1943 von Lyon nach Gurs und am 27.2.1943 nach Drancy.1 Von dort wurde er mit Transport Nr. 50 am 04.03.1943 nach Majdanek deportiert.2
1 ADPA, 72W, 66
2 Vormeier, S. 94; Gedenkbuch III, S. 2502
Bemerkungen
Geschwister Knäbel, Erbengemeinschaft
Vermögens- und Eigentumsschaden abgelehnt.
(RS) Vater Salomon Nathan 23.08.1889 Köln – 04.03.1943 KL Sobibor
Mutter Irene Nathan geb. Dreifuss 13.02.1898 Pirmasens, Pfalz – 23.07.1960 New York, NY, wiederverh. Knäbel
Bruder/Schwester Rina geb. Siegfried Knäbel geb. Nathan 08.09.1923 Siegen, Westfalen – 13.08.1979 Saarbrücken [ab 1956 Geschlechtsumwandlung]
s.a. LEA 10105 7824 10718 14266 14267
Biografie
(YV)Transport 50 from Drancy, Camp, France to Sobibor, Extermination Camp, Poland on 04/03/1943
On February 13, 1943 at 21:10, two Luftwaffe (German Air Force) officers were shot on their way to the Hotel du Louvre and died that night at a military hospital. In retaliation, the Germans decided to arrest and deport 2,000 Jews. (...)
At 9:15 on the morning of March 4, 1943, a train designated number 901 departed from the Le Bourget Drancy railway station with 1,000 Jews on board. Approximately 900 of the deportees had arrived in Drancy earlier from Gurs. Lieutenant Ott of the Order Police (Leutnant der Ordnungspolizei Ott) was tasked with supervising the train.
The destination of transport 50 — and transport 51, which had left on March 6 from Le Bourget Drancy — has long been the subject of inquiry amongst historians.
Danuta Czech's study records two transports that arrived in Auschwitz from Drancy on March 6 and 8, 1943, and it is thought that all deportees were sent to their deaths immediately upon arrival.
However, on the day of the deportation, a routine telex (XXVc-211), signed by Heinz Roethke, head of the Jewish Affairs Department at the Sipo-SD, announced to the recipients—among them the commander of Police Security Services (BdS Sipo-SD) in Krakow and in Lublin and Adolf Eichmann in Berlin—that on March 4, a train with 1,000 Jews had left the Le Bourget/Drancy station for Cholm. The destination—Auschwitz—was crossed out at the order of Lieutenant Ott.
Furthermore, as historian Serge Klarsfeld has noted, the telex was not addressed to the inspector of the KZ in Oranienburg and the Auschwitz camp, but rather to the head of Security Services (BdS Sipo-SD) in Krakow and in Lublin, and the destination indicated was Cholm (Chełm) in the Lublin district, some 50 kilometers from Sobibor.
Moreover, a list from the National French Railways indicates ''Solibar" as the destination of the two convoys (March 4 and 6), most likely referring to "Sobibor," in Lublin. The accounts of the few survivors from these two transports, and in particular the 1981 affidavit of Maurice Jablonsky (who was deported on March 6), report that the trains stopped at Sobibor. There, on the ramp, a selection was conducted and a number of young people were chosen for labor and transferred to Majdanek (they were later sent to Budzyn or Auschwitz-Birkenau, in July 1943). The rest of the deportees were taken directly to the Sobibor death camp; none survived.
We have no information as to how many people were selected for labor at Majdanek and Budzyn nor about how many were sent to Sobibor.
The convoy presumably took the following route: from Le Bourget-Drancy, the train went through Bobigny, Noisy-le-Sec, Epernay, Chalons-sur-Marne, Revigny, Bar-le-Duc Lerouville, and finally Noveant-sur-Moselle (Neuburg), located at the German border. At the border, the train was handed over to a Schupo detail (Schutzpolizei-Kommando). After crossing the border, the train most likely traversed Metz, Saarbruecken, Mannheim, Frankfurt Main, Fulda, Erfurt, Leipzig, Dresden, Görlitz, Liegnitz (Legnica), Breslau, Oels, Konstadt (Wołczyn), Kreuzburg, Czestochowa, Kielce, Skarżysko-Kamienna, Radom, Lublin, and Chelm, finally arriving at Sobibor.
On March 6, commander of the Sipo-SD in Metz, Kuever, reported that a Jew named Jacob Silber had jumped from that particular train on March 4. He was injured and taken into custody. Roethke asked the Sipo-SD in Metz to put Silber on another transport to Auschwitz.
Only four men from this transport, all of whom had been sent to Majdanek and later to Auschwitz, survived the war.
Q: https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/deportations/5092623