Rabbi Solomon Feuerstein

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Rabbi Feuerstein was born on December 25, 1869 in Podgorze near Krakow in Poland, according to Dieter Kühnl. At that time the region belonged to Austria. He studied at Krakow University where he earned a doctorate degree. In 1897 he met Gertrude Chodowski, a school teacher, whom he married. She died in the 1930s. They were the parents of one son, Edmund Heinrich Feuerstein, a lawyer, whom my father always called Eddie. Edmund was born in Falkenau on December 7, 1902. Before World War II, the Feuerstein family lived on Schrammstrasse in Falkenau. Rabbi Feuerstein served the Falkenau Jewish community as its spiritual leader for 41 years until the Anschluss.

In 1938 he left Falkenau for Prague. In 1939 Nice, France. He was transported by the Nazis to Theresienstadt on July 3, 1942 and on October 15, 1942 from Theresienstadt with the so-called “Alterstransport” to Treblinka, where he persihed., according to Mr. Kühnl. According to another story, told to me by Werner Löwy in Prague in 1996, Rabbi Feuerstein perished during his escape on a ship from Menton in southern France trying to get into Italy with refugees from Czechoslovakia.