Amalie Mary Reichmann Robinson
Born August 30,1923, in Bielitz, Poland

survivor

Mary carried, at great risk of severe punishment, her identity card photograph during 35 months of imprisonment. Fortunately the Germans did not discover her Ausweis (Kennkarte) picture.

Amalie Mary had been slave laborer #7 at Bolkenhain and Landeshut, slave laborer #47746 at Grünberg, and prisoner #63905 at Helmbrechts auxiliary camp of the concentration camp at Flossenbürg. Her weight at liberation was listed by U.S. Army doctors at 83.6 pounds (38 Kilograms).

Hospitalized for two months following liberation, medical documentation listed her condition when liberated as under-nourishment, first-degree frozen feet (both), abscesses, edema, and incipient heart failure. Barely alive, so to speak!

Mary is now a robust, happily married woman, living in Los Angeles. This 1994 picture in Volary (below) was taken by Bernard, her husband.

Fella Scheps
Age 25, of Dumkrova, Poland


        

victim

Fella suffered from severe diarrhea in the hospital at the Helmbrechts camp. For the latter part of the forced march to Volary the Germans carried her in a wagon, along with other girls incapable of walking.

Miss Scheps died at 1950 hours on May 9,1945, the day after this picture was taken. Her cause of death was verified as pulmonary and cardiac disease secondary to starvation, emaciation and cachexia (general bodily ill health).

survivor and author
of a book about her life

	Gerda is famous for her book ALL  BUT MY LIFE Gerda Weissmann Klein Hill and Wang

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The "before" pictures were borrowed from Mary and Fella by T/5 J.R.Schneider (166th Signal Corps Company) on May 8, 1945, while the girls were in a hospital. He said he would make reproductions and promised to return their photographs but he disappeared. Bernard Robinson recovered them in 1995 from the National Archives. History has been preserved!  
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