05.2 | According to the school register of pupils at the Catholic Feldschule in Hamm, the two brothers Siegfried and Gottfried Pohl were deported to Auschwitz on 9 March 1943 as ‘gypsies of mixed blood’. Siegfried Pohl succumbed to the camp’s inhumane living conditions on 20 October 1943.

‘9.3.43 Police preventive detention. Gypsy of mixed blood with predominantly German blood.’

Hamm Municipal Archives, collection Mechthild Brand