This is a list of names of forced laborers who were buried in
the local cemetery of Braunschweig, Germany · General
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Searching the Database As in most parts of Germany,
Braunschweig's industries utilized large numbers of forced
laborers/prisoners, Jews and non-Jews, often securing them from
concentration camps. Many of these workers died from various
diseases or simply from exhaustion or starvation, and they were
buried locally. In some cases the persons buried there were
listed, in others not. Ossie Schonfeld of Brooklyn had been
deported from Czechoslovakia with his father, Abraham, to
Auschwitz, and then to forced labor in Braunschweig. Abraham
died there and, many years later, Ossie decided to go to
Braunschweig and locate the cemetery. He did so and found the
names of others who had died there. Exact dates of death are not
known. The list appeared in The Jewish Press on August 18, 1995,
and is reproduced from there. This database contains six fields: