Biography

About Marianne Gompers-Loonstein

In early April 1945, prisoners from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp were taken to Theresienstadt. One of the three trains used for this purpose was liberated by the Russion Army near the village of Tröbitz in Brandenburg. Many prisoners did not survive this train journey. A larg number of those who survived the train journey died from the consequences of the typhoid fever epidemic. The deceased were burried in a communal grave behind the management barracks of the “Hansa”quarry. Marianne Gompers- Loonstein was buried in this communal grave.

Information office of the Dutch Red Cross, detection of Jewish persons, list of deceased persons who were ordered to earth in Tröbitz and the surrounding area.