The few surviving cards are the only clues to the names of the murder victims.
©(Archiv Gedenkstätte Ehrenhain Zeithain)
In civilian life, Jakow Malkow was a gym teacher. He was taken prisoner by the Germans in Belarus in early July 1941 while serving as a soldier in an infantry regiment. He had been transferred several times before the Wehrmacht committed him to the ‘Russian camp’ in Zeithain in Saxony. There he underwent the usual registration procedure. He was then sent to the Mühlberg POW camp to perform forced labour. His Jewish descent was presumably discovered there, and he was subsequently returned to Zeithain. Now his prisoner registration card carried the label ‘Jew’—his death sentence. The Wehrmacht turned him over to the Gestapo on 31 October 1941. The Dresden Gestapo transferred him to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where the SS shot him to death in the stable after his arrival.
