Arnold Hans Wreschner

Eintrag »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs:

• Wreschner, Arnold Hans
• geboren am 30. November 1902
• in Frankfurt a. Main/Hessen-Nassau
• wohnhaft in Frankfurt a. Main
• EMIGRATION
• 00.00.1934, Niederlande
• DEPORTATION
• ab Westerbork
• 15. Februar 1944, Bergen-Belsen, Konzentrationslager
• 10. April 1945, Theresienstadt (urspr. Transportziel)
• TODESDATUM
• 16. April 1945
• TODESORT
• Tröbitz
• für tot erklärt

Arnold Wreschner was born in Frankfurt in 1902 to Leo and Ida. He was married to Alice nee Ettinghausen. Prior to WWII he lived in Frankfurt, Germany. During the war he was in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Arnold perished in 1945 in Trobitz, Germany.

Arnold was on the "Lost Train". The “Lost Train” was on the route from Bergen-Belsen to Theresienstad. The train was liberated two weeks later, on April 23rd, by Russian troops near the village of Troebitz.

This train of cattle cars was organized by the Nazis in early April 1945 to ship some of the still-surviving Jews of Bergen-Belsen to their death. The train was liberated two weeks later, on April 23rd, by Russian troops near the village of Troebitz. The train was one of three that left Bergen-Belsen on April 9th and 10th, 1945 with the intent to annihilate the surviving Jews of Bergen-Belsen somewhere in the East. Two of the trains quickly fell into the hands of the advancing allies. The third, The Lost Train, escaped detection and ran through what remained of the Nazi railroad system for nearly two weeks. Of some 2,500 of us on this train, 675 died on the journey or shortly thereafter. The died were buried in mass graves in Troebitz, 04/1945.

See:

http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/0170_lost_train.html