Slave laborer at Langenstein-Zwieberge, sub-camp of Buchenwald The SS put the prisoners, including Willner, on a death march to Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where he was then transported by train to Buchenwald and then on to one of Buchenwald's sub-camps, Langenstein-Zwieberge. At one of those camps, Blechhammer, Willner’s father became ill and was sent to Auschwitz and murdered. Willner's mother was immediately sent to the gas chambers, the SS made the male Willners slave laborers at subcamps of Auschwitz. Following the German occupation of France, they were arrested and transported from Drancy internment camp near Paris to Auschwitz. They went initially to Belgium and then to France. Willner, his mother and his father, a veteran of the German Army from World War I and recipient of the Iron Cross, fled Germany in 1939 due to the worsening situation for the Jews. Eddie Hellmuth Willner (Aug– March 30, 2008) was a German Jew, a US Army major, and a survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.Įarly life, slave laborer at sub-camps of Auschwitz
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