Liberation and Last Massacres 1945. [Internet resource] (ID: 33468)
Authorship or Source:
Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes.
Title or Main Description:
Liberation and Last Massacres 1945. [Internet resource]
Description:
Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 12 Names.
Type of Work:
HTML document
Alternate or Series Title:
Österreichische Holocaustopfer: Befreiung und letzte Massaker. English
Provenance:
An informational component portion of the website of the Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes [= Documentation Archives of the Austria Resistance] and its "Shoah Victims Database" at http://www.doew.at/ausstellung/shoahopferdb_en.html.
Keywords:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Austria --Vienna.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Austria --Vienna --Atrocities --Registers.
- Förstergasse 7 (Vienna, Austria) --Massacre, 1945 --Registers.
- Vienna (Austria) --Registers
Abstract:
Article containing the names of approx. ten Jews killed in the final days before the liberation of Vienna, Austria in April 1945.
Language and Other Notes:
- Translation into English of the German "Befreiung und letzte Massaker", found at http://www.doew.at/projekte/holocaust/shoah/ende/ende.html.
- "On April 11, 1945, as the battle in Vienna had been raging for a few days already a unit of the Waffen-SS massacred nine Jews at Förstergasse 7 in the second district of Vienna. Dr. Nelly Blum, Arthur Holzer, Arthur Klein, Erna and Grete Klüger-Langer, Marie Margolin, Kurt Mezei, Emil Pfeiffer, and Genia Jenny Schaier had taken refuge from the fighting in the cellar of Förstergasse 7. At about 3.30 p.m. a unit of the Waffen-SS which was quartered in Förstergasse 10 embarked on a house inspection in Förstergasse 7. The SS ordered all the people in the cellar to show their papers, called out the Jews named above, and took them to the entrance of the house. In the evening they were led to the bomb crater in the roadway in front of the house, and murdered by shots to the back of the head. A few hours later Red Army soldiers arrived in Förstergasse: this was at 3.30 a.m. on April 12, 1945."
- Last Accessed: 11 August 2010.