Theodor Steiniger

Birth record: SOKOLOV 1904 N 1840-1895 (48/102)

Death record:

• http://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/127145-theodo...
• Born 19. 10. 1871
• Last residence before deportation: Prague XIV
• Transport AAn, no. 283 (06. 07. 1942, Prague -> Terezín)
• Transport Bw, no. 1750 (19. 10. 1942, Terezín -> Treblinka)
• Murdered

[https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.geni.com/p13/c7/d6/cb/94/5344483f73d3526b/falkenau_jewish_families_original.pdf] Theodor Steiniger, the youngest of the three Steiniger brothers, had a tobacco, paper and book store on the Marktplatz ("Tabac-Hauptverlag"), which still exists. Tabak, in the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy was a monopoly and the product could only be obtained from the central supply firm. Earlier, in May 1912, he bought the Kremling Inn at Ringplatz 14, that had burned down in 1911. Theodor Steiniger had paid 46.000 Kronen to Mr. Kremling’s widow for the property.. In 1918 there was anti-Jewish rioting and looting in Falkenau and the rioters attacked Theodor Steiniger's tobacco business. In 1919, after World War I, when the Czechoslovakian Republic was formed, Theodor Steiniger lost this concession which he had inherited from his mother, Charlotte. A new Czech law gave the state owned tobacco "Trafiks" to the Czech war veterans ("legionaries").Theodor then started a paper and book store, but their main income was from the angros paper business, supplying the porcelain and textile industries with industrial paper. He and his wife, Malchie (Marie, who was born on June 24, 1879), both of whom were deported from Prague to Terezin on Juy 6, 1942, and then to Treblinka in the east on October 19, 1942 by the Nazis perished in the Holocaust. They were the parents of two daughters and a son. Gretl, who died in Prague in the spring of 1995, was the widow of Vaclav Novak, a Christian who predeceased her. Hans became John H. Steiniger and he resides in London with his wife, Sonja. His younger sister, Erna, was married to Paul Karpeles, the owner of a glass factory in Teplitz. After a brief marriage they divorced and she changed her name to Erna Stein, and she lives in London. Shortly before my father died in 1991, Hans Steiniger wrote a letter to him. The house at Ringplatz 20 was restituted to the family after World War II, according to Dieter Kühnl - but he does not know to whom - in 1949. Later it was sold to MPBH and today it is owned by the Vietnamese, Bac Ngo Ha.