Gertrude Pressburger
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Gertrude Pressburger (11 July 1927 – 31 December 2021) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor.
Life
Gertrude Pressburger was born in
After his release, the family managed by chance to get a visa for Yugoslavia. The trip ended in September 1938 in Zagreb and went from there via Italy, from where France was to be controlled, but mislang. Back in Yugoslavia, the family was arrested in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz.[2]
Her mother and both brothers were murdered on arrival, and her father died on the way to another camp. After the liberation, Gertrude Pressburger arrived in
Death
Pressburger died in New Year's Eve 2021, at the age of 94.[4]
Public work
She got known as Frau Gertrude when she warned in a video message against exclusion and hatred in the 2016 presidential election in Austria. The trigger was her annoyance over the statement of the FPÖ leader and now Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache that "in the medium term, a civil war is not unlikely". The video was clicked and shared millions of times.[5]
Publications
- Gertrude Pressburger, Marlene Groihofer: Gelebt, erlebt, überlebt Autobiographie, Verlag Zsolnay 2018 ISBN 978-3-552-05890-3
References
- ^ "Gelebt, erlebt, überlebt – Bücher – Hanser Literaturverlage". hanser-literaturverlage.de (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ^ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg (31 January 2018). "Gertrude Pressburger: "Ich bin zweimal geboren worden"". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2018.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Kazim, Hasnain (31 January 2018). "Auschwitz-Überlebende aus Wien: Ruhe, jetzt redet Frau Gertrude". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ^ "Holocaust-Überlebende Gertrude Pressburger 94-jährig gestorben". Kurier. 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ Wien, - ARD Studio. "Gertrude Pressburger meistert ein Leben nach Auschwitz | Halt hoch den Kopf und werde nicht zum Knechte!" (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2018.
External links
- Vienna vital (25 November 2016), Frau Gertrude – Van der Bellen – warnt vor Rechtsextremer Rhetorik – Untertitel auf Spanisch (in German), retrieved 31 January 2018
- "Die Erinnerungen von 'Frau Gertrude'". news.ORF.at (in German). 30 January 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.