Mina Buijs
* 1921

Mina Buijs, born on 15.1.1921 in Rotterdam, died on 9.9.1943 in Hamburg

Langenhorner Chaussee next to 625, memorial site

Mina Buijs was born on January 15, 1921 in Rotterdam, was single and of Protestant faith. Deported from her native Holland to Hamburg-Langenhorn, she had to perform forced labor in the armaments industry for Hanseatische Kettenwerk GmbH (HAK) and was housed in the "Gemeinschaftslager Tarpenbeck", Weg 4.

On August 30, 1943, she was admitted to the Alsterdorf General Hospital with the diagnosis "pectoralis phlegmone" (breast abscess). After ten days, Mina Buijs died there on September 9, 1943 at 4:15 am. The hospital's death notice states the cause of death as "abscess in the armpit area, pulmonary embolism".

Mina Buijs was 22 years old.

Five days later, on September 14, 1943 at 11:00 a.m., she was buried by the Schröder funeral company "with decorations, plants and harmonium and organ music" at the Ohlsdorf cemetery. She was placed in a collective grave with nine unknown deceased, grave location Bp 73, row 20, no. 22.

In November 1952, her mortal remains were transferred to the area of the Dutch war graves, grave site Bp 73, R. A, No. 11. A light-colored natural stone tombstone from the Koninkrijk der Niederlande with a carved coat of arms* and her name and date of birth and death still commemorates her there today.