Walter Josef Zipper

Basic birth data from IKG-Wien Archives courtesy of www.genteam.at

305725 1902 342 1 Wien Zipper Walter Josef Emil/

Further details from actual IKG-Wien birth registration to be found under:

1902.02.05 - Walter Josef ZIPPER - IKG-W BR https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25805-20341-93?cc=202...

cf. sources provided for brother Herbert ZIPPER for further Information ...

In particular:

Music and the Holocaust: Zipper, Herbert-re. PARENTS http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/music-early-camps/dachau...

"With a career that took him from Europe through the Philippines to the USA, the composer and conductor Herbert Zipper had a remarkable and international musical life. Born in Vienna in 1904 to an assimilated Jewish family, Zipper had a happy and comfortable childhood. His father was the son of a cantor, and his mother the daughter of a rabbi. Nonetheless his parents raised him and his siblings in a largely secular environment – like so many of their counterparts, they identified more as Viennese than as Jews. Zipper’s parents were great music lovers, and the children received an extensive musical education."

Walter Josef ZIPPER: " When German troops arrived (in Vienna) in March 1938, he and his family finally began making plans to leave, but at this point it was already quite complicated to get all the necessary papers in order. Zipper was picked up by the Austrian police in May 1938. After being held in jail for two days, he and 20 others, including his brother Walter, were taken to the train station to be sent to Dachau."

And also:

cf: Eric ZIPPER - cousins search–Google Groups https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.genealogy.jewish/xWiCFc...

" Emil ZIPPER married Regina/Rosie WESTREICH, b. 19.10.1877 d. Santa Monica, Ca, USA, March 1966,who was the oldest of 3 sisters - children of Emanuel WESTREICH. They met and married in Vienna in 1901 and had four children :

Walter ZIPPER 1902-1986 - inventor of the Flak Jacket ... Apparently Otto drove his favourite car across the border and escaped from Austria but Herbert and Walter were arrested and interned in Dachau and Buchenwald. However their Father who had fled to Paris managed to buy them out in February 1939 and the family fled to Manila, Philippines, where they spent the war and then emigrated to the USA.

I do not know if Otto or Walter had any children ..."