In early 1943, Blumenfeld was selected by the German armament manufacturer Krupp AG to work at Langenbielau, an annex to the notorious Gross-Rosen concentration camp. In 1942, at the age of fifteen, Gerry Blumenfeld was abducted by German troops who occupied Eastern Poland and transported by cattle car to Klettendorf concentration camp. Attempts to escape were met with execution or transfer to Buchenwald. Those who became ill were transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp and were replaced by other concentration camp inmates. Forced laborers who failed to meet production quotas were punished and beaten with rubber truncheons. Her work was supervised by Ford security officials and foremen. The Rostov children were taken by truck to the Ford plant in Cologne, where they lived without heat, running water, or sewage facilities and were required to perform heavy labor at Ford's Cologne plant, drilling holes into the motor blocks of engines for military trucks, from 1942 to 1945. She was initially taken to Wuppertal, Germany, where she was literally purchased, along with thirty-eight other children from Rostov, by a representative of Ford Werke AG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. In October 1942, Elsa Iwanowa, then seventeen, was abducted by Nazi troops from her hometown of Rostov, Russia, and transported to Germany with approximately 2,000 other children as young as fourteen years of age.
Another Attempt to Heal the Wounds of the Holocaust
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