Zosia Nachman

Zosia Nachman - Sites of her persecution
  • born on June 6, 1925 in Lodz/Poland, née Branic,
  • From December  1940, she had to wear the yellow Judenstern
  • 4/30/1940  - August 1944 Lodz Ghetto, making straw shoes for the Wehrmacht
  • August 1944 Auschwitz, after 10 days
  • Bergen-Belsen
  • December 2, 1944 - April 16, 1945 Flossenbürg/Plauen/Mehltheuer concentration camp, #59473, production of aircraft parts (date in file: mid-October 1945 - April 16, 1945)
  • DP camp Feldafing,
  • DP camp Landsberg
  • 1947 IRO camp Barletta,
  • 1950 USA

Zosia Nachman lost her parents and five siblings as a result of the persecution.

Zosia Nachman was not a client of Konrad Kittl, but she was named as a witness by Tola Cudzynowski. Ms. Nachman belonged to a group of women who shared the same fate of persecution. The witnesses named by her were with her throughout the entire period of persecution:

  • Tragerman Genia; April 14, 1924, Lodz, Poland, née Wolf, persecution history: Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, December 2, 1944, Flossenbürg concentration camp/Mehltheuer #59444
  • Stolzman, Malka; June 15, 1929, Lodz, Poland, née Gala, persecution history: Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, December 2, 1944, Flossenbürg concentration camp/Mehltheuer #59479
  • Stolzman, Malka; June 15, 1929, Lodz, Poland, née Gala, persecution history: Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, December 2, 1944, Flossenbürg concentration camp/Mehltheuer #59479
  • Pesa Gutman; born Sonnabend, widowed Nelken, June 21, 1913, Lodz, Poland, persecution history: Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, December 2, 1944  Flossenbürg/Mehltheuer concentration camp  #59600

She herself testified to the statements of Mrs. Tola Cudzynowski.

I took the exact date of their arrival in Flossenbürg and the prisoner number, which is partially missing in the records, from the number book “Number Books of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Book 7, Women: Prisoner Number 50000-60000”.

Kittl also represented Felicija Hanfling, who was also in the Łódź Ghetto and was sent to the subcamp Mehltheuer:

  • Hanfling, Felicia Faiga; 9.6.1921 Chelm/Poland; née Bienstock; 12/1940-11/1942 Chelm Ghetto, 11/1942-2/1943 Warsaw Ghetto, 2/1943-11/1944? Lodz, KZ Auschwitz, -16.4.1945 KZ Flossenbürg/Mehltheuer, Bamberg, 1950 USA

Before the Persecution

Lodz Ghetto

Occupancy plan Pfeferstrasse 7, Source: list "Pfeferstrasse 7", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Totenbuch Ghetto Lodz

According to the Book of the Dead, her father died of pulmonary tuberculosis on March 31, 1944 at 5:00 p.m., entry number 899.

Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Book of Deaths", (ID: 37604).

Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Mehltheuer

Prisoner personnel file of Zosia Nachman, née Branic. Source: Arolsen Archives, document 11058725

After the Liberation

Testimonies

Pesa Gutman

Statement made around 1954:

Malka Gala

Statement made 1954: