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Rita Poldi Smrcka

Details

Name

Dr.Rita Poldi Smrcka

Born as

Rita Poldi Smrcka

Born in

City and country unknown.

Birthday

9 July 1913

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. Stayed with Siegfried Okret.
  2. Forcibly collected to Geusaugasse 7, Vienna in March 1941.
  3. Forcibly collected to Berggasse 25, Vienna in December 1941.
  4. Forcibly collected to Scheuchgasse 24, Vienna in May 1942.
  5. Deported to Theresienstadt on 24 September 1942.
  6. Deported to Auschwitz on 2 October 1944.
  7. Deported to Hainichen (Flossenbürg). 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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