Can someone please help me translate the section where it says Domenico? I’d also like to know what this record is for because it involved my great grandfather.

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  1. Sure, it lists what he was employed as while in captivity in a German camp

    Pipe layer from September 10, 1944 to May 8, 1945.

    The camp was shut down to the Russian advance and he was released.

    From Nov 15, 1944 he was sent to dig trenches (Schanzarbeiten)

  2. Domenico Rechiche, worker #302, born 5.7.1910, employed/”employed” 10.09.1944-8.5.1945 as a pipe fitter.

    Termination of work due to “Russeneinmarsch”, i.e. liberation by Russian troops.

  4. Born 05.07.1910 in Delianora, Italian Citizen, worked as Pipelayer, worked for the company from 10.09.1944 until 08.05.1945, no home adress, dismissed/fired because of the entry of the russian army, from 15.11.1944 they had to build walls and ditches for the war

    Thats what I understood, hope it helped.

  5. As others said, it’s list of workers in a labour camp. The stamp in the lower right corner is for a company which, among other machinery, produced tanks and aircraft parts during the war. The camp itself is not declared, but it seems likely that it’s a subcamp of the Concentration Camp Flossenbürg – named “Zschachwitz”, after the settlement near Dresden (today part of the city). The camp existed from October 1944 to April 1945, according to Wikipedia.

    May I ask, where did you get the record from? That might help with confirming that theory.

    EDIT: Please note that it is entirely possible that your great grandfather was not liberated there when the Red Army advanced, but rather re-deployed to another camp. It’s just that the company dismissed him.

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