Minasz (Menashe) Sankiewicz: ITS documents relating to his imprisonment at Buchenwald concentration camp 1945-2008

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

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Buchenwald concentration camp, one of the largest in Germany with its 130 satellite camps and units, was situated 5 miles north of Weimar in Thüringen. It was established in July 1937 when the first group of 149 mostly political prisoners and criminals was received. Some 238,980 prisoners passed through Buchenwald from 30 countries. 43,005 were killed or perished there....

Oranienburg (Concentration camp)

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Jaworzno (Concentration camp)

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Sankiewicz, Fajga. née Abramovicz

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Majdanek (Concentration camp)

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Warsaw ghetto

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Sankiewicz, Smul

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Sankiewicz - Minasz - b 1924

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Minasz (Menashe) Sankiewicz was born in Warsaw in 1924. He worked as a tailor. His parents were Smul and Fajga Sankiewicz (née Abramovicz). He was deported from Warsaw ghetto to Majdanek concentration camp and on to camps in Jaworzno, Sachsenhausen and later Buchenwald. Minasz was transferred from Gross-Rosen camp to Buchenwald concentration camp in February 1945. He worked at Stein labour camp. According to the documentation he appears to have emigrated to England shortly after the liberation o...