Malvine Worth

Malwine Schwarz

• Austria, Vienna, Jewish Vital Records, 1835-1938
• Record type: Birth
• Birth: Apr 26 1912 - Vienna, Austria (Wien, Österreich)
• Father: Abraham Schwarz
• Mother: Sara Niwes

MALVINE Worth was born in Vienna, the middle chid of three. Her mother and older sister, Klara, perished in the Holocaust.

Despite her lack of Jewish education she felt a very strong sense of pride in her faith. During the war she was deported to Theresienstadt. Her fitness and will to live helped her survive. She was overwhelmed to hear of her brother Joschy’s survival, saying that the best music she had ever heard was his snoring on the first night. She took her role as older sister and only surviving immediate family member as a major purpose in life.

She was instrumental in reuniting Joschy with his childhood sweetheart, Marianne, in 1948. She often referred to Marianne as her “twin sister-in-law”. The three of them arrived in Australia in 1952. Not long after her arrival, she met and married Louis Brodsky. In 1956, their only child, Karin, was born.

Malvine was apprenticed in her early teens to a seamstress but was exploited as cheap labour. Determined to stand on her own feet she taught herself the craft, exhibiting her great talent in pattern-making and dress design. Along with Joschy, she established a thriving clothing factory. She spent many long hours in her living room making patterns each season. After Louis’ death in 1967, she married Harry Worth in 1971. Together they joined B’nai B’rith’s Harmony unit and were extremely active members until Harry’s passing.

In her later years she visited an elderly gentleman in Montefiore, keeping him company and doing his chores long after she could barely make it to his room. When Montefiore opened in Caulfield, she was soon visiting and bringing chocolates to a number of residents on a regular basis.

Her charity was legendary. In addition to numerous donations, she often helped out friends and family in crisis, despite being on a pension.

Her home was a refuge for several of her own and Karin’s friends during difficult times. Karin married Tom in 1984 and they had two sons, Daniel and Adrian. Monday evenings brought large groups of people together at Malvine’s home. Until her 91st year, these meals often finished with her famous strudel or apricot dumplings while everyone was engaged in stimulating conversation.

Malvine always knew her own mind and valued her independence. She cheerfully carried the burden for others but refused to be a burden to anyone. Her family and many, many friends will sadly miss her wisdom, wit and strength, as well as her endearing smile.

- - Personal References

Genteam.at, Birth Records (Code 1), Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna and Lower Austria (requires (free) Registration/Login to search the database)

No. 150482

Last Name Schwarz First Name Malwine (later known as Malvine)

Code 1

First Name Father Abraham

Last Name Mother Niwes First Name Mother Sara

Location Wien

Book 1912 IX

Volume 1912

Date 26.04.1912

Number 772

Addition: Ehe am 22.07.1939 StA 5 Leopoldstadt 1662/39

Translated, Malvine was married on 22 July 1939)

1. First Husband - August Wilhelm (Divorced)

Genteam.at, Vienna, Civil marriages in Vienna between 1870 and 1939

No. 33585

Date 1939.07.22

Last Name Wilhelm First Name August

Date of Birth 1905.08.06

Birth Parisch

Spouse Schwarz Malvine

Numerative 1662

Register Office Leopoldstadt

2. Ludovit Louis Brodsky (passed away)

Louis Bradsky (correct name is Brodsky married Malvine Wilhelm in Melbourne Victoria Australia in 1953

Birth Death and Marriages Victoria

https://my.rio.bdm.vic.gov.au/efamily-history/5e5c6e14f959b92302a31...

3. Hersz Harry Worth married Malvine Wilhelm in Melbourne Victoria Australia (passed away)

- - Further research required for Marriage details

Melbourne Chevra Kadisha, Find a Grave

http://www.mck.org.au/search/1207

Hersz Worth Died 13 Dec 1988 ( Teveth 5749) Buried 14 Dec 1988, Aged 78 years

Compartment 11 Row G Grave 7

Arolsen Archives, Search, Ghetto Theresienstadt Card File, name of Malvine Wilhelm

https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/archive/5133818/?p=1&s=...

Scope and content of the cards:

The card file consists of different types of cards. The majority of the card file consists of the two types of cards of the Central Transport Card File. Both types contain the following data: name, first name, date and place of birth and the former address of the detainee. The first type of cards of the transport cards also contains the date of the deportation to Terezin as well as the date and destination of the deportation from Terezin. The second type of the transport cards contains the date of the transport "to the East".

Additionally, there are two more types of cards. On one type of cards the name, first name, date and place of birth and date of death are recorded. On the other type of cards name, first name and the date of cremation are recorded.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, Prag

National Archives of Australia, Record Search, Passenger Arrivals

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage...

Mrs M Wilhelm arrived in Melbourne on the 11 Jan 1952 on the SS Orcades, Passenger No 709

Address at Destination in Australia: C/o Hacker, 23 Allanville Ave Gardiner

Melbourne Chevra Kadisha, Find a Grave

Malvine Worth, died 16 Jan 2004 (22 Teveth 5764), buried 19 Jan 2004, Aged 91

http://www.mck.org.au/search/3629

Comp 15, Row Q, Grave 21