Mania Altman
Mania Altman was born in Radom, Poland, on April 7, 1938, the daughter of shoemaker Shir Altman and his wife Pola.
She was murdered at the age of seven at Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg.
In the summer of 1944, Mania’s family was deported from the ghetto to Auschwitz concentration camp.
Her father Shir was murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp.
In Auschwitz, Mania was separated from her mother Pola, who was deported to a satellite camp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where she was liberated in May 1945.
In 1951 Mania's mother and her brother Chaim emigrated to the United States.
She never learned what had happened to her daughter.
Mania’s mother passed away in Chicago in 1971.
Mania's uncle Chaim, who lived in New York learnt of her fate in 1982 in an article by Marc Grumelin, the brother of Eleonora and Roman Witoñski, in the newspaper Voice of Radom.
He visited Hamburg in 1986 and attended the 'International Tribunal".
The street Mania-Altman-Weg in Hamburg-Burgwedel is named in honor of Mania.
