Eduard Reichenbaum
Eduard Reichenbaum was born on November 15, 1934.
He lived with his parents, Ernst and Sabina, and his elder brother, Yitzhak, in Katowice, Poland.
When Eduard was hanged in the cellar of the school at Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg, he was ten years old.
Eduard’s father had been a sales representative for a German book publisher in Katowice.
In September 1944, Eduard, his mother, and his brother were taken from the labour camp in Bliżyn to the extermination camp in Auschwitz.
They were separated on the ramp at Birkenau station.
The SS sent his brother, Yitzhak, to the men’s camp and Eduard and his mother to the women’s camp.
They stayed there together for two months and then Eduard was sent to a special block for children.
Shortly afterwards, he and the other 19 children were sent to Neuengamme in Hamburg.
In early 1945, Eduard’s father, Ernst, was shot and killed in Auschwitz.
Eduard’s mother, Sabina Reichenbaum, was sent to Lippstadt with a shipment of women and was liberated there on April 1, 1945.
His brother, Yitzhak, survived a camp in Austria and found his mother again.
They emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine.
When her son Yitzhak learned of his brother's murder at Bullenhuser Damm, he did not want to burden his mother with the news. She died in Israel in 1985.
In memory of Bella and Yitzhak Reichenbaum.
In October 2020, Bella and Yitzhak Reichenbaum died within a few days of each other in Haifa, Israel. They had both contracted Covid19.
We will never forget Bella and Yitzhak.
The street Eduard-Reichenbaum-Weg in Hamburg-Burgwedel is named after Eduard.