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Subject: Death of the child of an eastern worker.
Last name: Bohdanowa
First name: Lydia
Born on: 26 May 1944 in: Essen
Family status: Child 
  Entered:   
  Work shop:  Employment No. 
  Last working day:    
  as:   
Camp: Voerde-West  The burial will take place on: 4 January 1945 
Taken to a hospital:  By: Main Camp Administration 
Hospital:   Cemetery: Friedrichsfeld 
Died on: 30 December 1944   
Time: 0600   Legacy: none  
Cause of death: Scarlet Fever  Address of relatives:
Mother: Bohdanowa, Wera
Employment number: 519837  
 
  [Stamp] Signed: SCHULTEN
 
  PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NIK-12922
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 921
 
AFFIDAVIT OF THE REGISTRY OFFICE CHIEF AT VOERDE, 22 NOVEMBER 1947, WITH EXTRACTS FROM DEATH REGISTER* WHICH LISTED DEATHS OF 88 CHILDREN OF EASTERN WORKERS AT KRUPP’S VOERDE CAMP BETWEEN AUGUST 1944 AND MARCH 1945 
 
AFFIDAVIT  
 
I, Ernst Vowinkel, of Voerde, Niederrhein [lower Rhine], have been informed that I make myself liable to punishment if I make a false statement on oath. I hereby state the following on oath, voluntarily and without having been subjected to coercion or duress:

I have been in charge of the registry office [Standesamt] at Voerde, Niederrhein, since 1 July 1946.

Under my supervision the attached extracts were drawn up from the register of deaths containing the names of eastern workers’ children, who died in the children’s camp Voerde-West, of the cast steel works of the firm of Fried. Krupp in Essen, between August 1944 and March 1945.

I have personally compared the extracts, four pages, I have _
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* The extracts from the death register show 88 deaths. However, death reports submitted to other agencies by Krupp’s main camp administration indicate that other children died at Camp Voerde (NI-2916, Pros. Ex. 1549), a part of which is reproduced immediately above.
 
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