Julius Stwertka

Konzertmeister bei den Wiener Philharmonikern and Professor at the Academy of music .

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/11/vienna-philharmonic-n...

Julius Stwertka (Concertmaster, Violin I)

Julius Stwertka was 66 years old when Nazi Germany carried out its infamous Anschluss with Austria in March 1938. A distinguished musician, recruited by Gustav Mahler, he was violinst and then Konzertmeister with the Philharmonic, and is pictured in a black and white photo from 1935 sitting in the pit next to Wilhelm Furtwängler. The Anschluss unleashed 250 new anti-Semitic laws and a wave of anti-Jewish violence. Stwertka and his wife Rosa were deported to the Jewish ghetto in Theresienstadt. He survived for just a few weeks, dying in December 1942. His wife was sent to Auschwitz in 1944. Her date of death is unknown.

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• First Name Julius
• Last Name Stwertka
• Date of Birth 07.03.1872
• Place of Birth Wien
• Residence Wien 2, Novaragasse 32
• Place of death Theresienstadt
• Deportation Wien/Theresienstadt
• Date of Deportation 27.08.1942

http://www.holocaust.cz/en/victims/PERSON.ITI.1001820