Semjon Pogrebnikow
* 1918

Semjon Pogrebnikow, born on 24.12.1918 Leningrad, died on 2.3.1944 in Hamburg

Langenhorner Chaussee next to 625, memorial place

Semjon Pogrebnikow (born 24.12.1918 in Leningrad) and Galina Pogrebnikowa (born 12.5.1922 in Molodga) were married and of Roman Orthodox faith. Deported from Russia, they had to perform forced labor in Hamburg-Langenhorn for Hanseatische Kettenwerk GmbH (HAK). They were housed separately in the women's and men's camps of the "Ostarbeiterlager Tannenkoppel". Galina Pogrebnikowa was pregnant during this time. Their daughter Damara was born in this forced labor camp on August 14, 1943.

Semjon Pogrebnikow was admitted to Alsterdorf Hospital on February 14, 1944, with a diagnosis of pneumonia. He died there a few weeks later on March 2, 1944.

Semjon Pogrebnikow was 26 years old.

In the hospital's obituary, the cause of death is given as "lung abscess, circulatory weakness."

Thirteen days later his burial took place by the Großhamburgische Bestattungsgesellschaft (GBG) on March 15, 1944 at 10:00 a.m. "with decoration and harmonium or organ music" at the Ohlsdorf cemetery, grave location Bp 73, row 5, no. 29.
A gravestone slab with his name carved on it, but different from the death certificate, with the surname "Togrebnikow", and the dates of birth and death still commemorates him there today.

One month after his death, on April 5, 1944, his daughter Damara (born 14.8.1943) came to the Wintermoor Hospital in Hamburg with the diagnosis of "dyspepsia" (digestive disorder). During her stay there, her mother Galina Pogrebnikova was admitted to the Langenhorn Hospital on May 15, 1944 with a diagnosis of "diphtheria" and was released back to the Tannenkoppel forced labor camp after twelve days on May 23, 1944.

Damara also returned to the Tannenkoppel camp on June 13, 1944, after a four-and-a-half-week stay in the Wintermoor Hospital. The nutritional and living conditions there were completely inadequate for her.

Four months later, she fell ill again and was admitted to the Langenhorn Hospital on October 5, 1944, with the diagnosis "nutritional disorder." She died there at 7:30 a.m. on October 29, 1944. The hospital's obituary lists "nutritional disorder pulmonary bc" as the cause of death and Blumenthal as the signing physician.

Damara was 1 year, 2 months, and 15 days old.

Eight days after her death, her burial took place by the Großhamburgische Bestattungsgesellschaft (GBG) on November 6, 1944 at 9:00 a.m. in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, grave location Bo 63, row 33, no. 16. Her grave is no longer preserved. At the end of 1959 it was levelled together with at least 30 graves of children of forced laborers on area Bo 63.

Galina Pogrebnikowa had lost her husband and daughter within eight months.

A Stolperstein commemorates Damara, along with another 48 Stolpersteine for the deceased children of forced laborers from the Tannenkoppel camp, at Essener Straße 54 (See biographies www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de).

For Galina Pogrebnikowa, the transfer to forced labor at the German shipyard took place on November 14, 1944, until the end of the war on May 3, 1945.

Translation Beate Meyer