Robert Emanuel Heilbut was interned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Shortly before liberation a train carrying 2,000 prisoners, mainly Jewish, left for Theresienstadt. The train spent 14 days travelling through Germany, and many passengers died on the journey. Finally, it came to a halt near the small village of Tröbitz, where Allied troops liberated the surviving passengers. Robert Emanuel Heilbut did not survive the journey. He was buried in the nearby town of Falkenburg [modern-day Złocieniec], together with other victims.
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This person is commemorated on a memorial in Amsterdam. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.