Gender: girl
School:
Gymnasium and high school for girls
Gymnasium and high school students were typically between 14 and 20 years old. A gymnasium student in September 1941 was likely born between 1921 and 1927.
The gymnasium and high school for girls was located on Otylii. The street name was changed to Ottilienstrasse when German occupation began in 1939. See
www.lodz-ghetto.com for a map of Otylii and the rest of the Lodz ghetto.
Stage 1: Identity
Student's Given Name:
Ada BORYCHOWSKA
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database (JewishGen)
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
Ada BORYCHOWSKI
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database (JewishGen)
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
Birth Date:
1924-08-03
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database (JewishGen)
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
1924-10-20
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants Database (JewishGen)
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
Discussion
sgearhart
Birth date?
posted: 4/16/2009 | viewed: 611 | replies: 1
Stage 2: The Ghetto
Change of Address:
1941-10-21
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Ghetto Street Address:
Sulzfelderstrasse, 14, 18
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Sulzfelderstrasse, 14, 21
Source: Lodz Ghetto Inhabitants
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Approver Comment:
I agree that the date you reference refers to a change of address from Sulzfelderstrasse 14 #18 to #21. Thank you for moving this information from the discussions section into the appropriate fields.
Stage 3: Labor Camps
No research performed on this stage
Stage 4: Auschwitz & Beyond
Student's Given Name:
Ada Borychowska
Source: Prisoner Registration, Transport and Death Lists
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Birth Date:
1924-10-20
Source: ITS (Prisoner Card of Buchenwald)
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
1924-10-20
Source: Prisoner Registration, Transport and Death Lists
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Deported / Transferred:
1944-10-19
Source: Prisoner Registration, Transport and Death Lists
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Arrived at Camp:
1944-08-00
Source: Testimony of Lucia Mandil
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
1944-09-03
Source: The Deportation of Jews from the Lodz Ghetto to KL Auschwitz and Their Extermination
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
1944-10-00
Source: Testimony of Lucia Mandil
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
1944-10-19
Source: ITS (Prisoner Card of Buchenwald)
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
Prisoner #:
846
Source: Bergen-Belsen Gedenkbuch (Memorial Book)
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Camp Deported/Transferred from:
Bergen-Belsen, Germany
Source: Prisoner Registration, Transport and Death Lists
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Place of Birth:
Lodz
Source: Prisoner Registration, Transport and Death Lists
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
Camp Deported/Transferred to:
Auschwitz, Poland
Source: Testimony of Lucia Mandil
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
Bergen-Belsen, Germany
Source: Testimony of Lucia Mandil
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
Bomlitz, Bergen-Belsen, Germany
Source: The Deportation of Jews from the Lodz Ghetto to KL Auschwitz and Their Extermination
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
Elsnig, Buchenwald, Germany
Source: Testimony of Lucia Mandil
Status: Submitted 11/21/2008;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
mannoutoo
Elsnig, Buchenwald, Germany
Source: Prisoner Registration, Transport and Death Lists
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Confirmed
| Researcher:
birponcz
User Comment:
In the notes fields from the Bergen Belsen memorial list, Ada's occupation is listed as Büroangestellte or Clerk. She is also recorded as having Polish nationality and her prisoner category is Jewish.
According to the Secondary Sources: "In October 1944, the SS transferred more than 250 Lodz ghetto Jews to Buchenwald-Elsnig, where they were forced to work in an explosives factory. Despite starvation rations, 12-hour work shifts, and brutal treatment by guards, some prisoners reported conditions as being better than at Auschwitz. In April 1945, the SS evacuated the camp in a train carrying explosives and bound for Berlin. Near Potsdam, Allied planes bombed the transport, killing many of the prisoners. The Germans hunted down and murdered most of those who managed to escape the inferno. Few prisoners survived."
Approver Comment:
I agree this information is correct for the source you cite. Thank you for correlating this information with the secondary source material as well.
Stage 5: Liberation & After
Student's Given Name:
Ada Borychowska
Source: Postwar Lists of Survivors
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Possible
| Researcher:
birponcz
Liberated:
1945-04-00
Source: Secondary Sources
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Possible
| Researcher:
birponcz
Place of Birth:
Lodz
Source: Postwar Lists of Survivors
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Possible
| Researcher:
birponcz
Liberated at:
Heinkelwerke, Oranienburg
Source: Catalogue of Survivor Testimonies (Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute)
Status: Submitted 3/28/2012;
Possible
| Researcher:
birponcz
Approver Comment:
Since Mannatou's research suggests that Ada and her sister Lucia survived, it is very possible that this record refers to the same Ada Borychowska (though there is no birth date to confirm).
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