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About Margit Miriam Kron
Margit learned 8 years at school and was trained to be a nurse. In WWI she worked at a military hospital.
Her daughter Noemi remembered that Margit won second prize in a beauty pageant when she was young, in Graz.
On September 10th, 1943, when the Germans marched into Trieste, Margit and Filippo escaped to Pieve di Soligo, in the Treviso Province (their address was Capo di Villa 21) - a village he may have remembered from his time in nearby Barbisano di Soligo during WWI). They were able to take with them jewellery, gold, silver and some shares, which sustained them during that period. During this time Margit discovered that she had breast cancer and was operated on in a rural hospital, but did not receive any radiation treatments.
While in Pieve di Soligo, Margit, in an act of bravery, once saved her husband Filippo's life. The Germans rounded up some men in the square, whom they wanted to shoot as a revenge for the killing of some Germans by local partisans. Filippo was one of the men selected by the Germans. Margit ran to Filippo, opened his shirt and showed the soldiers the scar he had on his body following an old ulcers operation. She shouted at the Germans that this was a man who had been wounded fighting for the Austrians in WWI. "you should be ashamed of yourselves for picking on an old man like him." She somehow convinced them and they left him alone!
In 1945, before returning to Trieste, they stayed for a while in the Venice Ghetto and then moved into Albergo Nazionale in Venice, in which they stayed as long as Margit received radiation treatments, which unfortunately came too late and did not cure her.
In Palestine, Erica and Noemi, their daughters, did not hear from their parents throughout 1944 and 1945.
When the Krons returned to Trieste in 1945, their large apartment on Via Trento 16 was no longer theirs. They moved into a room in a professor's apartment together with two more families, on Via Foscolo 35. In one of the other rooms lived Ricarda Peri (Beer), Enrico's widow, and her child from her first marriage, Hasi. It was during this time that Margit's legs became paralyzed and her health deteriorated.
Margit was hospitalized at the Primario Ospedale Regina Elena (on Via Milano 18) for 5 months. Her condition deteriorated and at the end she was unable to move, paralyzed from cancer. She died at 13:25 on July 27th, 1946 at the age of 51, one year before Rina was born, 4 years before Hedva was born and 11 years before Michael's birth. Neither of us, her grandchildren, had the joy of knowing Margit, our maternal grandmother.
Filippo wrote to his daughters that Margit's last joy was a letter from Noemi written on July 14, 1946, which he read to her, in which Noemi broke the news of her marriage to Rudi.
Erica remebers that Margit was a wonderful cook. She went shopping for fresh food every day, as there were no refrigerators, and had to 'shlepp' the baskets up and down, 93 stairs.
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Margit Miriam Kron's Timeline
| 1894 |
November 18, 1894
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Graz, Austria
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| 1922 |
February 3, 1922
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Trieste, Province of Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
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| 1946 |
July 27, 1946
Age 51
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Trieste, Italy
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July 29, 1946
Age 51
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cimitero ebraico, via del pace 4, campio 13 fila 14 posto 5, Trieste, Italy
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