Looking toward Palestine
The Münzer family hopes for a reunion in Palestine
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After Moses Münzer loses his job as a tailor, his wife, Lisa, is forced to work in a soup kitchen. Now the family hopes for a future in Palestine.
WIEN
This photograph, taken in October 1938, shows Moses Münzer, a tailor in Vienna, and his wife Lisa, with their five children, Elfriede, Benno, Nelly, Gertrude and Siegfried. After the “Anschluss,” Moses Münzer, like many Jews, lost his job. Lisa Münzer started working as a cook in the soup kitchen of the Brigittenauer Tempel on Kluckygasse, sometimes assisted by her children. By October 21st, 15-year-old Gertrude was on her way to Palestine on Youth Aliyah, an organization founded by Recha Freier, the wife of an orthodox rabbi in Berlin, before the Nazi rise to power. Its goal was to help Jewish youth escape anti-Semitism in the Reich and settle in Palestine. Gertrude left on her own, but the intention was for the family to reunite in Palestine.
TEILEN
QUELLE
Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Sammlung:
Gertrude Knopf Family Collection, AR 11692
Original:
Box 1, folder 1
