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Helene Adelberg (Gewitsch)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Death: circa 1942 (56-65)
Deported 6/14/1942 to Sobibor camp, Lublin, Poland (Holocaust)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Herman Herzel Gewitsch and Friederike (Franzi) Gewitsch geb. Stricker
Wife of Alfred Adelberg
Mother of Alice "Liesl" Landeis Landis; Georg Peter Adelberg; Franz Nikolaus "Frank Nick" Adelberg; Fritz August "Fred A." "Gustl" Adelberg and Eva Therese Adelberg
Sister of Carl Gewitsch; Paula Rosenberg and Leo Gewitsch

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About Helene Adelberg

Helene Gewitsch Adelberg "was very nice and vivacious. Her daughter Lisl was my favorite cousin. She was three years younger than I and we agreed to marry when we were about 12 . . . Helene did not want to leave her youngest one" [Eva Adelberg]; they were both deported to Poland in 1942 [Otto Stricker memoir/D. Lavender]

"Paula and Helene Gewitsch were all very musical and all played the piano very well." -- Edith Silberberg Stricker, wife of Otto Stricker, in Otto Stricker memoir.

Marriage, per genteam.at:

  • Year 1902, Numerative 81
  • Volume Mariahilf
  • Last Name Adelberg First Name Alfred
  • Last Name Gewitsch First Name Helene

Per the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yadvashem.org:

  • Adelberg Eva Therese born 24.02.1922 Wien; deportation Wien to Sobibor (Poland), 14.06.1942 (June 14, 1942); Last place of residence: Wien 2, Rembrandtstrasse 6/10
  • Adelberg Helene born 10.10.1881 Wien; deportation Wien to Sobibor (Poland), 14.06.1942 (June 14, 1942); Last place of residence: Wien 2, Rembrandtstrasse 6/10

Birth year also per genteam.at Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna

Helene's sister Paula Rosenberg geb. Gewitsch schreibt über ihre Zwangsumsiedlung von Wien nach Opole Lubelskie am 15. Februar 1941 - Die Quellen sprechen - Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-1945. Produktion: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Hörspiel und Medienkunst in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Zeitgeschichte / Edition‚ Judenverfolgung 1933–1945, 2013. See http://die-quellen-sprechen.de/03-151.html, Dok.-03-151 15 Feb. 1941

See also Deutsches Reich und Protektorat September 1939-September 1941, Volume 3 edited by Andrea Löw, pp. 394-95

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Helene Adelberg's Timeline

1881
October 10, 1881
Vienna, Austria
1903
January 27, 1903
Vienna, Austria

Last Name Adelberg
First Name Alice
Code 1
First Name Father Alfred
Last Name Mother Gewitsch
First Name Mother Helene
Location Wien
Book Z1 1903
Volume Z
Date 27.01.1903
Number 76

1905
August 30, 1905
Baden, Wien, Österreich (Austria)
1912
August 25, 1912
Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1917
May 3, 1917
Vienna, Austria
1922
February 24, 1922
Wien, Österreich (Austria)
1942
1942
Age 60
Deported 6/14/1942 to Sobibor camp, Lublin, Poland