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Personal info

Full name
ANCHORSTAR, Gustav Frederick "Fred"
Date of birth
19 February 1924
Age
21
Place of birth
Yomissing, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33624640
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
2nd Battalion,
423rd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
30 March 1945
Place of death
Berga Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
E 2 4

Immediate family

Members
Milton Anchorstar (father)
Edna M. Anchorstar (mother)
Milton J. Anchorstar (brother)
Margaret L. Anchorstar (sister)

More information

Pfc Gustav F. Anchorstar graduated from Schuykill Haven High School in 1942.

He enlisted in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 30 April 1943.

He was taken prisoner in the vicinity of Schoenberg, Belgium on 21 December 1944 and transported to Stalag IX-B. On 8 February 1945, 350 American POWs were deported from Stalag IX-B to Berga concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald and assigned to a work detail. That transport included all the identified Jews from Stalag IX-B (approximately 80 men), about 150 others considered undesirables or trouble makers, and an additional 120 men, selected simply because they "looked Jewish," because they had "Jewish sounding names," because they were circumcised or because they were unlucky and were needed to fill the quota.

Gustav Anchorstar died of malnutrition.

More information can be found here:
http://schuylkillhavenhistory.com/WORLDWARTWO.html

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Kurt Anchorstar (nephew), www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.schuylkillhavenhistory.com, Book: Given Up For Dead: American GIs in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga by Flint Whitlock, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / Veteran Compensation application File

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Johan Heijkers, www.ancestry.com - Schuylkill Haven High School Yearbook 1942