‘I got tattooed with the number 116927, and was no longer Albrecht Weinberg’
Albrecht “Albi ” Weinberg, 99, grew up in the village of Fehndorf Rhauderfehn in East Frisia, northern Germany, where his father, Alfred, was a livestock dealer and butcher. He and Albrecht’s mother, Flora, were deported in October 1944 via Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.
Weinberg was forced into slave labour in 1939, and he and his sister, Friedel, were sent to Auschwitz in April 1943 at the same time as, but separate from, their older brother, Dieter. All the siblings survived and were reunited after the war. Albrecht and Friedel emigrated to the US, returning to live in Germany after 65 years.
Dieter moved back to East Frisia, but died in a motorcycle accident in…
