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About Filippo (Philipp) Pinchas Kron
After graduating from the Handelsakademie highschool in Vienna (where he also studied French and Italian), Filippo worked as an accountant for the Railroad authorities, specializing in freight wagons. Parallely he started to learn the furniture business and acquired knowledge in arts and design.
in 1912, nine years after his father's death, he also closed his father's Viennese shop and moved to Trieste, which then belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and was one of its major ports (until 1920) and a prosperous city. He opened his own shop business, which eventually became one of the largest and most important in Trieste. His shop's stationary read as follows:
Ignazio Kron
* Casa fondata 1848 (this date is questionable, as his father was only born in 1851!) '* arredamenti artistici di appartamenti moderni
- esposione di ambienti della massima eleganza
- TRIESTE, Piazza Vittorio Veneto 2.
His main business was furniture and fittings for villas, flats, establishments and even ships (Erica remembers being with him aboard one of the vessels in the Trieste harbor to review the final work). He employed two draftsmen who prepared the designs based on the measures and instructions they received from him. The designs were then given to specific carpenters who carried out the orders. One of them was in Cormons in the Province of Gorizia in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, located about 45 km northwest of Trieste. His daughter Erica remembers escorting her father on a visit there , to check the work in progress.
The store consisted of eight large halls. Erica remembers 3 of her father's employees who were all gentiles: Mr. Solinger, a German, who was chief project manager and drawer, his assistant Mr. Loprieno, and a woman named Antonietta, who was in charge of dusting and cleaning.
In WWI he served as an officer in the Austrian Army (everyone who graduated highschool was automatically advanced to this rank). He first fought in the Russian front, until 1917 (the Russian Revolution) and the armistice (Italy was allied to Austria) and was then moved to the Italian front (to Barbisano). During the last year of the war he served as main censor (German-Italian) in POW camps.
He was followed to Trieste by his mother and some of his unmarried sisters (these sisters lived in Trieste until WWI began and returned to Vienna). When he moved to Trieste he lived not far away from Piazza della Borsa. For lunch he frequented the kosher Jewish restaurant (the only one in the city!) owned by the Goldbergers (second floor, tables arranged on a long, closed balcony). It is there that he met their daughter Margit, who helped her parents run the restaurant.
They got married in the Trieste Synagogue on his 40th birthday!
Filippo had been very devoted to his four sisters (even took care of their dowries - two were married twice!) and their families. Most of his sisters were not so pleased that he got married, because they feared he would cease caring for them as before.
The years after WWI were prosperous for the family. Filippo's furniture business went well. He bought the house in Baden bei Wien (although Margit preferred to have one in Trieste). In Baden the family spent all summers joined by the Susickys and other family members. First they spent 3-4 weeks in Grado where Armin and Charlotte Goldberger ran a kosher pensione (Iren and Loris usually came from Prague, too). Erica and Noemi had a 4 month summer vacation from school, from June till the beginning of October. In Baden they had their big garden with adjacent houses of the Viennese family, where Noemi and Erica could play with their cousins. In Trieste, after Noemi's birth, the Krons moved to a large rented apartment with 6 rooms near Filippo's shop
Every evening Filippo and Margit met with friends at Cafe Pitchen, which was owned by Swiss people. The women played Bridge and the men talked. This cafe had great cakes, and the parents used to bring Noemi and Erica small samples, which they found on their night-tables in the morning. The girls had a maid called Martha who lived with them and looked after them. Erica confesses that she used to read in bed until she heard their approaching steps and then quickly turned off the light, awaiting her piece of cake!
On his birthdays, he took his daughters Erica and Noemi to the photographer for yet another picture of his girls for the family album.
Financial problems began in 1933, when, as the result of anti-Jewish, fascist laws, the banks cut off the credits that were vital for the furniture business. Filippo's business started to deteriorate, but for a while he continued the fittings and deliveries for private homes.
When WWII began Filippo liquidated his business, and moved with Margit to Via Ugo Foscolo 35.
His last address in Trieste was Via Torrebianca 26.
About WWII (from 1943 onwards), read the description in Margit Kron's profile.
After Margit's death in 1946, he frequented the restaurant of the Jewish Community on Via del Monte 5. It is there that he met Elda Cilla (divorced, no children), who became his second wife on August 11, 1947, about a year after their encounter. In a letter to Erica and Noemi, his daughters, he wrote about his intention to remarry, and described Elda as an excellent cook and a very pleasant companion. He would be happy with her, he wrote.
When Elda died in 1960, his daughter Erica came to Trieste to help him liquidate his belongings and brought him to Israel as an Oleh Chadash (with a tax-free Volkswagen - our first car!). He spent winters in Tel Aviv with his daughter Noemi's family (Rudi, Hedva and Michael Larisch), and summers in Haifa, with his daughter Erica's family (Haim and Rina). He shared a room with Rina - the second room was the living room, which, at night, served as Erica and Haim's bedroom).
Nonno Filippo enjoyed long strolls and solving Italian crossword puzzles ("Parole Incrociate" and "La Settimana Enigmistica"). He was a very gentle, generous gentlemen. He used the "Kuess die Hand genaedige Frau" as well as "Servus", typically Viennese expressions.
When his health deteriorated, he moved to the home for the elderly of "Irgun Oley Merkaz Europa" on Mapu Street, Mount Carmel, Haifa, where he peacefully passed away on January 25th 1967, a few days prior to his 88th birthday.
Hearing loss in the family: When Filippo came to Israel he was already quite deaf. Tini (his sister) and his daughters Noemi and Erica also suffered from severe hearing loss. Other family members with the same problem are his sister Hanni Spitz, her son Paul and her grandson.
About Filippo (Philipp) Pinchas Kron (עברית)
קברו נמצא בבית העלמין חוף הכרמל, חלקה ה' שורה 120, קבר 5.
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Filippo (Philipp) Pinchas Kron's Timeline
| 1879 |
February 9, 1879
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Vienna, Austria
Last Name Kron
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| 1922 |
February 3, 1922
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Trieste, Province of Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
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