Marianne Wengraf

Marianne WENGRAF, née HIRSCHLER: b. 25 Dec 1865, Wien - d. 29 Aug 1942, Theresienstadt, HOLOCAUST

Death certificate: http://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-digitised-documents/document...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~prohel/names/misc/hirschle...

Married Dr. Edmund Wengraf [May 11] 1890, Stadttempel (per genteam.at Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna), No. 54334 #328 (see note below). They were divorced in 1927.

The marriage record appears at https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25794-6758-35?cc=2028... in Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784-1911 01. Bezirk (Innere Stadt), Trauungsbuch G 1889 Apr.-1891, #328.

From The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at [yadvashem.org]:

Source Terezinska Pametni Kniha/Theresienstaedter Gedenkbuch, Terezinska Iniciativa, vol. I-II Melantrich, Praha 1995, vol. III Academia Verlag, Prag 2000

• Last Name WENGRAF, First Name MARIANNE
• Date of Birth 25/12/1865
• Place during the war WIEN,VIENNA,AUSTRIA
• Wartime Address WIEN IX, SEEGASSE 9 [ostensibly a Care Home for Jewish infirm & elderly]
• Place of Death TEREZIN,Camp
• Date of Death 29/08/1942 (Aug 29, 1942)
• Details of transport Transport 37 , Train Da 504 from WIEN,VIENNA,AUSTRIA to THERESIENSTADT,GHETTO,CZECHOSLOVAKIA on 20/08/1942
• Prisoner Nr. in Transport 873
• Type of material List of Theresienstadt camp inmates

Before her marriage in 1896, aged about 30, she resided at Wien, Stadt 379, Salvatorgasse 6 - her parents, Eduard & Therse Hirschler's main home. After her marriage in 1896, she resided at Wien IX, Grünetorgasse 16. In about 1915, aged about 49, Marianne left the family home at Grünetorgasse and resided at Wien VIII, Kochgasse (?) 28. About 1918, aged about 52, she resided at Wien XVIII, Währingerstrasse 108/T23. About 1918, aged about 52, she stayed for a while in the home of her brothers Rudolf & Wilhelm Hirschler, the former Hirschler "country" villa at Wien XIII, Linzerstrasse 376. About 1933, aged about 67, she resided at Wien VII, Lerchenfelderstrasse 81/24.

Wer Einmal War (p. 1195) states that Marianne was deported August 20, 1942 from Seegasse 9, Wien IX, to Theresienstadt "und am 29 August 1942 dort verstorben."

• re. ANCESTRAL MONOGRAMMED LINEN: It is probably mainly thanks to Marianne's maybe-mildly-Machiavellian manoeuvres that so much of our wonderful ancestral linen survived the Gestapo strategy of confiscation or destruction ... After leaving the family home she adamantly retained a key to the flat because she had left several coffers of stuff there to which she wanted occasional access. Possibly this was not because of lack of space in her new home but simply so that she could keep a "foot in the door" and continue to monitor a little what was now going on in her absence. These trunks contained linen etc. ... (cf.historical correspondence in family archives). It is a particularly bitter irony that this poor, proud woman, who cared so much about her past possessions to the point, sometimes, of obsession (cf. as above) should, herself, lose ALL - including her own life - whilst the things she had left behind at Grünetorgasse turned out to be in the best safe place .

• 29th. August 2012: The 70th. anniversary of poor dear Marianne's death in Theresienstadt ... Documents recently acquired from the Österreichisches Statsarchiv, Archiv der Republik display a grotesque sense of cynicism from the Gestapo authorities: the elderly lady's meagre bank account is to be plundered partly - it is stated - in order to finance her trip abroad. It is worded almost as if she were being asked to fund a foreign holiday rather than her deportation to death in a ghetto town ... .