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Rita Poldi Smrcka

Details

Name

Rita Poldi Smrcka, Dr.

Born in

city and country unknown

Birthday

1913 July 9

Notes

Jewish; Dr. Rita Krause made a career in medicine and died in 2004; in a relationship and later married to Prof. Dr. Walter Krause (who was imprisoned for 18 months because of race defilement, was recruited for the Wehrmacht, and was a prisoner of war in the United States); one son; father Julius Smrcka (born 1870), mother Olga (born 1882, died 1938); brother Dr. Leo Smrcka (born 1909); her father and brother were imprisoned during the November 1938 (Night of the Broken Glass) pogrom; her brother Leo fled in 1939 March to Great Britain; the house of her parents was confiscated (Schwarzhorngasse 10)

Locations

  1. Forcibly collected to Servitengasse 2, date unknown. Stayed with Siegfried Okret.
  2. Forcibly collected to Geusaugasse 7 in March 1941.
  3. Forcibly collected to Berggasse 25 in December 1941.
  4. Forcibly collected to Scheuchgasse 24 in May 1942.
  5. Deported to Theresienstadt on September 24, 1942.
  6. Deported to Auschwitz on October 2, 1944.
  7. Deported to Hainichen (Flossenburg) in October 1944. The concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army; she took over a medical occupation in Theresienstadt until 1946 August; moved back to Vienna (lived together with Walter Krause's sister-in-law) and married Walter Krause upon his return.
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