Language:
German
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Alltag im Holocaust
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2013) 99-116
Keywords:
Mezei (Family)
;
Jewish children in the Holocaust
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Vienna (Austria)
Abstract:
Discusses the issue of the struggle for survival of young Jews in Vienna under Nazi rule, examining the diaries, letters, and photographs of the twins Ilse and Kurt Mezei (1924-1945). After the war, the documents were deposited by their mother, Margarete, and other relatives in the Dokumentationszentrum des österreichischen Wiederstandes and in the Jüdisches Museum Wien. Following the "Anschluss" in 1938, the father, Moritz, a journalist and writer, escaped to Italy. When the war broke out he was interned in a camp in northern Italy. In 1944 the Nazis occupied northern Italy, and Moritz was deported to Auschwitz, where he perished. Margarete remained in Vienna with her children; she worked in different Jewish institutions. Ilse and Kurt also worked in a Jewish institution, which protected them from deportation. But in March 1945 Ilse died in a bombardment, and in April Kurt was shot dead by an SS unit.
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