Name: Robert E “Cloeffy” Claffy
First Name(s): Robert E “Cloeffy”
Last Name: Claffy
Place of birth: Illinois, Cook Cnty, Chicago
Rank: Pvt
ASN: 16175278
Company: H
Unit: 423rd IR 2ndBn 106th ID
Reported as: POW ► DNB
Date of incident: 21-12-1944
Place of incident: Sankt Vith area
note: On December 21, 1944, Pvt Robert E Claffy was taken POW and imprisoned in Stalag IX-B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia, Germany.
On February 8, 1945, together with 350 of the physically fit prisoners, who were Jews, looked like Jews or were deemed “troublemakers” or were grabbed at random because the Nazis needed slave labor, were sent to a Nazi concentration camp at Berga. They arrived at the camp on 13 February 1945. Starting that date the prisoners had to work in terrible conditions.
On April 5, 1945 the camp was evacuated and the prisoners embarked on a march to an unknown destination southward. After a day walking, they were lodged in a school. That night on April 6, 1945, Pvt Claffy died from malnutrition, diarrhea and heart failure.
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