We ask your help in our search for the

Heinz and Sonja ZYMT are/were twins who were sent to Auschwitz on 2 or 3 March 1943.

The mother was called Dayche - but used the name Stanislawa.
She was a Pole from Warsaw who had found work in a cigarette factory in Dresden, Germany. When she lost that position she obtained some work as a house maid, but Nazi Laws ensured that she soon lost that position as well.

In the weeks before deportation the mother desperately searched for a secure fostering home for the twins - we still have some of the newspaper advertisements which she had placed.

The information about the Transport dated 2 / 3 Mar 1943 is accurate because that was the time when the whole "Judenlager Hellerberg" was cleared.
293 people were shipped direct to Auschwitz.

Even though a book about this transport exists, we have no transport number for it.
There are only prisoner numbers.

To this particular Transport were later added in the town Grlitz further Deportees from Berlin and Norway.

Of the 293 Dresden Deportees, it appears, only 50 arrived in the Auschwitz barracks.
All the rest were killed immediately upon arrival at the selection platform.

The Prisoner numbers allocated to the Men of this transport were 104890-105424 and 105458-105506

For the women the numbers 36935-37079 and 37080-37243 were allocated.
Each person had one of these numbers tattooed on their forearm.

So far we have not been able to identify which person's name was associated with which number.

We are NOT certain of the spelling of the name ZYMT. It is a transliteration, and therefore cannot be taken as accurate.

At a guess the name could also have been spelled as
ZIMT, ZIMMT, CYMT (Polish), CINNAMON (English) KINAMON (Hebew)
Do you know of anyone researching these names?

Do you recognise any of these names, or know anyone else who might have some knowledge?

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