Identification tag 136616 issued at Ebensee/Mauthausen concentration camp

Emil Fekete, later Black, was born in Hungary, on October 1, 1930, to Herman Fekete and Cecelia Klein. From April 20 to May 20, 1944, Emil was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp, then sent to Wolfsberg concentration camp, in Austria, where he stayed until January 15, 1945, as prisoner number 43577. He was transferred to Ebensee concentration camp, also in Austria, where he was assigned as forced labor for Siemens AG. He stayed at the blacksmith’s house, where he sometimes had food and ate snow. Emil worked for the “union” at the Steinbach Tunneltau, on a mountainside near Ebensee, from January 1945 to May 1945, as prisoner number 136616. He worked in building tunnels for future underground factories by loading stones into small railway cars. His supervisor was Herr Huntz and the Kapos were Nicholai Bowkowski and Herr Mikita. The Lager #10 boss was Herr Magnus. Emil was liberated by American troops on May 5, 1945. He lived in Bodrogkeresztur, Hungary, before he emigrated to Halifax, Canada, on December 20, 1948, aboard the ship Scythia. He moved to Montreal, Canada, where he met his wife and worked in the candy business. They had three children. Emil died in 2005, age 75.

The identification tag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Howard Black, Dr. Michael D. Black, and Lisa C. Lubinsky, the children of Emil Black.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Howard Black, Dr. Michael D. Black, and Lisa C. Lubinsky