The final and unequivocal answer to this question was found in the online book of remembrance of the victims of the persecution of Jews during the period of National Socialism in Germany in the years 1933-1945, published by the Federal Archive4. Based on information retrieved from the database of this archive, it was established that Walter Eichenbronner (1902), his wife Flora (1906) and daughter Gisela (1932) lived in Ilmenau, Thuringia, and were deported in May 1942 to the Lublin District. Walter, as a man of prime-age, was chosen during the preliminary selection on the ramp in Lublin to work on the construction of the concentration camp at Majdanek, while Flora and Gisela were sent to the ghetto in Bełżyce.
A document issued by the KL Lublin administration in December 1942 proves that Dr Eichenbronner died in the camp. However, we do not know precisely the fates of Flora and Gisela. We certainly know that they were murdered, but for lack of historical sources, we do not know the place and date of their death. It is understood that before the liquidation of the ghetto in Bełżyce, which began in late autumn 1942 and finally ended on 8 May 1943, some of its residents fell victim to executions carried out on the spot, while others were deported and murdered in the death camp in Sobibór.
The details regarding the circumstances of the death of the Eichenbronners are unlikely to be reconstructed.
Two kennkarte belonging to Jan Ściuba - father (1902) and Jan Ściuba - son (1925) - are an example of sources from a collection of private documents, through which it was possible to present the fates of the Polish prisoners. Both documents were found at Majdanek, although the owners of kennkarte were not prisoners of the camp. So, where did they come from? Subject to a letter requesting information about people imprisoned in KL Lublin, sent to the Museum in the 1980s, it was established that Jan Ściuba (born 1902), an office clerk, and his sons Jan (born 1925) and Wiesław (born 1927) were arrested in Biała Podlaska at the end of October and the beginning of November 1943. The reasons for detention were their affiliation to the Home Army and underground activities5. Presumably, at the beginning of January 1944, they were transported to the prison at the Lublin Castle and then shot on the premises of the concentration camp at Majdanek. According to the documentation of the Lublin branch of the Polish Red Cross6, Jan (it is unknown whether the father or son) and Wiesław received parcels from their families in prison through the Polish Red Cross . Their data are also included in the files of the Central Underground Care - OPUS in the list of those who died in the period of underground fights. It is written next to their names that the wife and mother receive aid after the death of their sons and husbands7. However, there is no certainty as to the circumstances surrounding the death of these men.
Kennkarte of Jan Ściuba, the father