Ilda Konforowitsch
* 1944

Ilda Konforowitsch, born on 29.4.1944 in Hamburg, died on 18.9.1944

Essener Straße 54 (formerly camp Tannenkoppel, Weg 4, also called "Tarpenbek = Forced labor camp of the armaments industry in Hamburg Langenhorn)

Ilda Konforowitsch was born in Hamburg on April 29, 1944. Her mother Valentina Konforowitsch, born on March 24, 1925 in Bobinzi, was single and presumably of Russian Orthodox faith, registered as "Orthodox." Deported from her native Ukraine, she had to perform forced labor in Hamburg-Billstedt for Vereinigte Jute-Spinnereien und Webereien AG. In which of the Billstedt company camps Valentina Konforowitsch was housed, for example at Altmannstraße 7 (today Geesttwiete), Am Geesthang 2-6, Geesttwiete 2-6, Hamburger Straße 96 or Posthornstieg, is not clear from the alien registration file.

In the sixth month of her pregnancy, she was transferred to Hamburg-Langenhorn on January 24, 1944, and employed as an "unskilled worker" at Hanseatische Kettenwerk GmbH (HAK). She was now housed in the "Ostarbeiterlager Tannenkoppel", Weg 4.

On the day of the birth of her child, Valentina Konforowitsch was admitted to the Finkenau Women's Clinic, Hamburg-Uhlenhorst. Nine days after the delivery, on May 7, 1944, she and her daughter Ilda were released back to the "Tannenkoppel Eastern Workers' Camp." According to the entry in Ilda's alien registration card (Ausländermeldekartei), Josef Knikberg is her father.

Ilda had to spend the short time of her life in the forced labor camp Tannenkoppel. The nutritional and living conditions were completely inadequate for her. Ilda died there on September 18, 1944 at 7:00 am. In the death notice of the police chief, signed "i. A. Hillmann L. A.", according to "official investigations", without stating a doctor, the cause of death is given as "purulent bronchitis u. Dickdarmkatarrh". In the death register there is the additional entry "inhalation of vomited stomach contents".

Ilda was 4 months, 2 weeks and 6 days old.

Ten days after her death, her burial took place on September 28, 1944 at the Ohlsdorf cemetery, grave location: Q 39, row 7, no. 9. Her grave is no longer preserved. At the end of 1959 it was buried together with at least 146 graves of children of forced laborers on site Q 39.

Valentina Konforowitsch was transferred to the Collaustrasse camp (now Spengelweg), Hamburg-Lokstedt, on January 6, 1945. Coal trading companies, Hamburger Maschinen- und Apparatebau, construction companies, Hochtief AG and the sheet metal factory Cochu AG were located there.

Translation by Beate Meyer