User:Geschichtefamilia/Willi Philippsborn

Willy Philippsborn (born 18 June 1910 in Bentschen/Poland) was a German Jewish former inmate of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp and after the founding of the National Buchenwald Memorial (NMG) was a guide to the memorial.

Philippsborn was brought in 1939 to Buchenwald concentration camp and given prisoner number 3447. With the help of Robert Siewart, he worked in a construction unit at the mason school and was able to survive until the camp was liberated.

After the war he would lead groups of visitors through the National Buchenwald Memorial.^[1]

References

^ Koch, Heinz (2010). Heinz Koch / Udo Wohlfeld: Heinz Koch/Udo Wohlfeld: Das deutsche Buchenwaldkomitee. Die Periode von 1945 bis 1958. p. 187. ISBN 3-935275-14-5.

[1] Koch, Heinz (2010). Heinz Koch / Udo Wohlfeld: Heinz Koch/Udo Wohlfeld: Das deutsche Buchenwaldkomitee. Die Periode von 1945 bis 1958. p. 187. ISBN 3-935275-14-5.

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