Marco Feingold

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Marco Feingold
Marko Feingold, the month before his 102nd birthday
Born(1913-05-28)May 28, 1913
DiedSeptember 19, 2019(2019-09-19) (aged 106)

Marko M. Feingold (28 May 1913 – 19 September 2019

Holocaust survivor and centenarian, who served as the president of the Jewish community in Salzburg, and was in charge of Salzburg's synagogue
.

Information

Marko Feingold was born in Besztercebánya (Neusohl in German),

Auschwitz. He was also imprisoned in the concentration camps at Neuengamme and Dachau and finally the concentration camp Buchenwald
in 1941, where he stayed until his liberation in 1945.

He moved to Salzburg by chance, where he stayed. Between 1945 and 1948, he helped Jewish survivors who were living in

anti-Semitism. Feingold also criticized the social democrats in this context and said that after 1945, after a complaint by the party secretary of the SPÖ, he was chased out with the words Saujud, verschwind!).[4]

Between 1946 and 1947, Feingold was briefly the president of the Jewish community in Salzburg. Shortly after his retirement in 1977, he became vice president and then, in 1979, president of the Jewish community once again.[5] Following his retirement, he gave many lectures about his time in concentration camps, the

Holocaust and Judaism.[6]

Feingold died September 19, 2019, at the age of 106.[1]

Awards and decorations

References

  1. ^ a b "Austria's oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 106". Haaretz.
  2. ^ Alexandra Föderl-Schmid: Marko Feingold gestorben: Der Retter. sueddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  3. ^ "Max "Marko" Feingold: "Selbst bei den Sozialisten hieß es: Saujud, schleich Dich!"". stern.de (in German). 2018-02-17. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  4. ^ "1. SPÖ-Präsident "war lange als Antisemit bekannt"". krone.at (in German). 3 June 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  5. ^ Marko M. Feingold: Wer einmal gestorben ist, dem tut nichts mehr weh. Eine Überlebensgeschichte. Wien 2000. S. 277–279.
  6. ^ a b "Pressemitteilung Ehrenbürgerschaft für Hofrat Marko M. Feingold" (in German). 18 January 2008. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question about the Decoration of Honour" (PDF) (in German). p. 737. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  8. ^ "European Academy of Sciences and Arts". Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2014.