Hsoum Ling-Li - English

Hsoum Ling-Li was born on March 7, 1904, in Canton, China. He worked as a labourer and lived in Magdeburg, Prälatenstraße 16. His tragic fate during World War II is marked by arrests, imprisonments, and ultimately his brutal death. 

Ling-Li was arrested in Magdeburg in June 1940, initially held in the Magdeburg remand prison, later in the Brandenburg penitentiary, and finally in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Klinkerwerk satellite camp. There, he was murdered on July 17, 1942. 

Hsoum Ling-Li was from Canton, China, and had been detained in Magdeburg due to an alleged "moral offence". His Chinese-German identity posed a challenge for the justice system, which is reflected in the different spellings of his name. 

Despite his distinctiveness in the national context, Ling-Li was drawn into the inhumane system of Nazi persecution. Information about him is incomplete, but it is known that he spent about two years in the Brandenburg prison and was later transported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as a "professional criminal". 

Hsoum Ling-Li met his tragic end in the Klinkerwerk subcamp, where he and other homosexuals fell victim to a targeted assassination attempt by the SS. The reported cause of death was "shoulder blade shot with severance of the heart while attempting to escape", a ruthless practice used by the SS as a pretext for murder. 

Hsoum Ling-Li, a man from Canton, China, met his fate in a system of injustice, discrimination, and ultimately genocide. His story reminds us that Nazi crimes affected individuals of different backgrounds and identities, who were cruelly persecuted and murdered.