Walter Jungleib
Walter Jungleib was born on August 12, 1932, Hlohovec, a town in Slovakia.
Along with the other children, he was taken from Auschwitz to Neuengamme and murdered at Bullenhuser Damm on April 20, 1945.
Walter was twelve years old.
Walters's father had a jeweller's shop, where his mother worked too.
Walter was a keen stamp collector. He went to the Jewish school with his sister Grete until that was forbidden.
His father had to give up his shop and later the family went into hiding. The SS found them, sent them to Sered concentration camp and from there to Auschwitz.
Walter's father did not survive the concentration camp.
His mother Malvina and his sister Grete were liberated in 1945.
They looked for Walter but were unable to find out anything about him. They believed he must have died on an evacuation march from Auschwitz.
Walter's identity was unknown up until 2015. All that was known was that 'W. Junglieb' was a 12-year-old boy and might have been from Yugoslavia.
In 2015 Bella Reichenbaum, another child's relative, did some research in Tel Aviv and found a list of prisoners sent from Auschwitz to Lippstadt. It was soon clear that Walter Jungleib was the long-sought 'Walter Junglieb' who had been misspelled.
In Hamburg-Burgwedel the Junglieb-Strasse was named after Walter in 1995.
On April 20, 2016, it was officially renamed Walter-Jungleib-Strasse in the presence of his sister Grete.