Marek Steinbaum
Marek Steinbaum was born on May 26, 1937.
Like the children Marek James, Roman, Eleonora, and Mania, Marek Steinbaum was also from Radom, Poland.
Marek was six when he was murdered at Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg.
Unfortunately, there is no known private photograph of Marek Steinbaum.
The only photographs we have of him are those taken by the SS during the 'medical' experiments.
We have deliberately chosen not to reproduce them.
The Steinbaum family owned a small leather factory in Radom, Poland.
From the Radom ghetto, the family was first sent to the labour camp in Pionki. Around the beginning of October 1944, the Steinbaum’s were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and separated.
Marek was sent to the children’s barracks.
Marek’s father, Rachmil Steinbaum, was sent from Auschwitz to the concentration camps in Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen. He then was moved to be near Stuttgart, in a satellite camp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
Marek’s mother, Mania, was deported to the Georgenthal satellite camp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp in November 1944.
Marek James’s mother, Zela James, and Rucza Witońska, the mother of Eleonora und Roman Witoński, were also imprisoned there.
After World War II, Marek’s parents lived in Memmingen, Bavaria, for a few years. Their daughter Lola was born in 1947, and they emigrated to the United States in 1949.
Lola learned of Marek's fate in 1993. On April 20, 1999, she took part in the memorial service for the children of Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg.
The street Marek-Steinbaum-Weg in Hamburg-Burgwedel is named after Marek.