Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stern-Freundlich

An only child, according to Elisabeth’s memoir, The Travelling Years

Elisabeth recalls that her father had always wanted to visit his sister, Elisabeth’s Aunt Josephine. This coupled with the fact that the names of the parents of Josephine and of Elisabeth’s father Jakob are the same, in different metrical records, makes it virtually certain that Josephine and Jakob were siblings.

A puzzle in connection with Aunt Josephine is that Elisabeth proposes going to see her when the Nazis march into Vienna, in March 1938 — the visit is supposed to be Elisabeth’s way of prompting her father to leave Vienna. But David PACHT was still in Vienna at this time — had Josephine already gone to England?

Elisabeth recalls a distant relative, who they called Uncle Bronek, real name Bernhard DATTNER, an unbaptised Jew and officer in the Austrian Imperial army in WW!. He was born in 1856 in Andrychan, Galicia. Married Laura Serog in 1900 — she was the daughter of wealthy paper manufacturer Ignasz Serog. Bernhard committed suicide at the end of the war (around 1918/1919).

Elisabeth shows up in a Jewishgen search on FREUNDLICH Austria as Lisbeth FREUNDLICH b. 21/7/1906. A note indicates she died as Prof. Dr. STERN-FREUNDLICH 25.2001 Wien