The Aufrichtig Family

 

This section of the Aufrichtigs website is devoted to victims of the Holocaust, and is a collection of documentation, pictures and facts surrounding the fates of family members. 

 

 
With meticulous care to detail, index cards were prepared for each new concentration camp deportee. These cards entered the name and date of birth of each victim as well as date of deportation and transport number. Where available, these cards have been reproduced. Miraculously, two members of the Aufrichtig Family were on these transports and survived. Please see Holocaust Survivors

 

ADOLF DRAHOS-FLEISSIG

Adolf Drahos-Fleissig fled to France and died in  Le Vernet KZ. Date of death is believed to be 13 August 1941.

 

Details of Adolf's deportation are included in the book La Liste de Saint-Cyprien written by Marcel Bervoets.

 

ALICE [LIESEL] FRANKEL [aka LISL FRANK/LISL FRANKL]

To the right is a copy of the Index Card indicating transport numbers and the date of Alice [Liesel] Frankel's deportation from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on 04 October 1944. Alice had earlier been deported to Kamp Westerbork in 1943 and from there to Theresienstadt on 06 September 1944. She subsequently died on a death march from Auschwitz to Christianstadt.

Alice at Kamp Westerbork

NB: Alice was the second wife of Otto Aufrichtig [Aurich]. Otto had been deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz five days earlier and survived. (Holocaust Survivors). By a series of coincidence, irony and fate, Alice had been deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on the same day as Otto's niece, Adele [Deli] Aufrichtig. She, too, survived. [Further information on Alice is listed under Otto in the Holocaust Survivors section.]

ALOIS AUFRICHTIG

To the right is a copy of the Index Card indicating transport numbers and the date of Alois Aufrichtig's deportation from Brno to Minsk.

NB: Alois was deported with his second wife, Theres ~~~. His first wife, Bertha Krakauer, had been deported to Theresienstadt from Boskovice and then on to Piaski KZ.

 

 BERTA KRAKAUER

To the right is a copy of the Index Card indicating transport numbers and the date of Bertha Krakauer's deportation to Theresienstadt, from where she was subsequently sent to Piaski KZ.

 

 

NB: Bertha was the first wife of Alois Aufrichtig. Alois had been deported from Brno to Minsk with his second wife, Theres. By cruel double coincidence, prior to deportation, Bertha's last address had been No 68 (29/622) Plackova, Boskovice, Moravia where a century and more earlier, it had been home to her former husband's grandparents, Salomon Z Aufrichtig and Julie Lokschan. She was deported to Theresienstadt and then on to Piaski on exactly the same dates as Ernst Aufrichtig, the son of Alois's elder brother Simon Aufrichtig. Her son, Hermann Aufrichtig, disappeared during the war and has not been seen or heard of since.

The following is a list of all persons living at Plackova 68, Boskovice in March 1942. They were all initially deported from Brno to Theresienstadt on Transport Ac on 19 March 1942, and subsequently to the death camps detailed:

Berta Aufrichtig nee Krakauer, born 11 October 1883, Mikulov, (Moved from Vienna to Boskovice 23 February 1939). Deported to Piaski on Transport Ag 1 April 1942

Arnold Fischer, born 6 January 1871, Boskovice, (Moved from Lhota Rap. to Boskovice 30 October 1941). Deported to Treblinka on Transport Bv 15 October 1942

Greta Fischer, born 30 October 1888 Uhersky Brod, (moved from Lhota Rap. to Boskovice 30  October 1941) Deported to Treblinka on Transport Bv  15 October 1942

**Karel Friedmann, born 28 September 1895 Boskovice, deported to Lublin on Transport Al  23 April 1942, then to Majdanek where he died 16 August 1942

**Oskar Friedmann, born 18 June 1897 Boskovice, deported to Lublin on Transport Al 23 April 1942, then to Majdanek where he died 10 August 1042

**Salomon Friedmann, born 28 December 1859 Boskovice, deported to Treblinka on Transport Bw  19 October 1942

Arnold Haczec/Hatschek, born 16 February 1873 Pohorelice, (Moved from Opavy  to Boskovice 24 September 1938) Deported to Treblinka on Transport Bw 19 October 1942

Josefina Huschak,  born 31 February 1924 Linz, (Moved from Brno to Boskovice 14 April 1939)  Deported to Piaski on Transport Ag 1 April 1942

* Leopold Krakauer, born 16 April 1876, Mikulov, (Moved from Ivanice/Eibenschutz to  Boskovice 10 October 1940) Deported to Treblinka on Transport Bw 19 October 1942

* Anna Krakauer, born 13 October 1904, Altsheflant, (Moved from Ivanice/Eibenschutz to  Boskovice 10 October 1940) Deported to Treblinka on Transport Bw 19 October 1942

(*)   Leopold and Anna Krakauer were the brother and the sister-in-law of Bertha Krakauer.

(**)  Karel, Oskar & Salomon Friedmann were very possibly related to the un-named Friedmann who married Hany Aufrichtig, youngest daughter of Salomon Z Aufrichtig and Julie [Jachet] Lokschan.

ERNESTINE [THERES] AUFRICHTIG

Ernestine Aufrichtig, who appears to have adopted the name Theres, was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband Rudolf Kahn. Reproduced below  is one of the  postcards she sent from Theresienstadt to her brother Josef Aufrichtig and his daughter Hedwig Aufrichtig. The following link displays all cards that reached their destination.

 

Ernestine's correspondence from Theresienstadt

 

ERNST AUFRICHTIG

To the right is a copy of the Index Card indicating transport numbers and the date of Ernst Aufrichtig's departure to Theresienstadt from where he was subsequently sent to Piaski KZ.

NB: Ernst was deported to Theresienstadt and then to Piaski KZ on exactly the same dates as Berta Krakauer, wife of his uncle, Alois Aufrichtig.

 

FRANZ AUFRICHTIG

Franz Aufrichtig was deported to Lodz, Poland on 23 October 1941, together with his wife Bertha Gerstl and son Kurt Aufrichtig. Below are reproduced copies of the front and back of a sender's receipt for a package sent by Franz to his elder brother Josef Aufrichtig on 11 May 1942. To their right is copy of addressee receipt.

Bertha

    

 

FRITZ AUFRICHTIG

Fritz Aufrichtig was one of the four sons of Simon Aufrichtig  to be  murdered in the Holocaust. 

Archives du Centre de Documentation Juive contemporaine state that Fritz was included in Convoy 26 which left Le Bouget-Drancy on 31 August 1942 and arrived at Auschwitz on 2 September 1942.

 

 

Other members of Fritz's immediate family to perish were mother Regine Aschenberger and his brothers Ernst Aufrichtig, Paul Aufrichtig, Walter Aufrichtig. 

 

HERMANN AUFRICHTIG

Hermann Aufrichtig, the son of Alois Aufrichtig who was deported from Brno to Minsk on 16 November 1942, and Berta Krakauer, who was deported to Piaski on 07 April 1942, disappeared during the war. Exhaustive searches have failed to reveal his fate.

 

 

KAROLINE AUFRICHTIG

The most devastating loss in the Sigmund line of the Aufrichtig Family was the destruction of an entire family in three stages. Karoline Aufrichtig and her family had originally fled to Belgium from where they were all captured.

She and her husband Max Stein were deported to Auschwitz from Belgium on 19 April 1943. The previous year their elder son, Sigmund Stein, aged 20, was deported to Auschwitz on 4 August, followed by 16-year-old Bertold Stein on 31 October.

Karoline + Family Memorial

 

 

LEOPOLD AUFRICHTIG

Leopold Aufrichtig and his wife Frida Hollander were deported to Maly Trostinec, near Minsk, Ukraine on 17 August 1942. Four days later, on 21 August - Leopold's 59th birthday - they were both murdered. 

NB: Leopold and Frida were deported to Maly Trostinec on the same transport as Flora Holzer, wife of his cousin Siegfried Aufrichtig [1]. Their son, Egon Aufrichtig, was shot in Zasavica, near Sabac, on 12 October 1941.

Egon's bid for freedom

 

      

PAUL AUFRICHTIG

Paul Aufrichtig. his wife Hedwig Lobl and their daughter Liselotte Aufrichtig were all deported to Opole, Poland on 15 February 1941.

                    

       Hedwig                  Liselotte

REGINE ASCHENBERGER

To the right is a copy of the Index Card indicating Transport numbers and the date of Regine Aschenberger's deportation from Theresienstadt to Treblinka on 23 September 1942. Regine had earlier been deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt on 4 August 1942 [IV/7-492]. 
Regine Aschenberger was the mother of Ernst Aufrichtig, Fritz Aufrichtig, Paul Aufrichtig and Walter Aufrichtig, all of whom were murdered in the Holocaust.

SIEGFRIED AUFRICHTIG [2]

Siegfried Aufrichtig [2], like his sister Karoline Aufrichtig, fled to Belgium in an attempt to survive. He was captured and deported to Auschwitz KZ on 14 January 1943.

Five months earlier, on 17 August 1942, his wife, Flora Holzer was deported from Vienna to Maly Trostinec, near Minsk. Deported with her was Siegfried's cousin, Leopold Aufrichtig, and his wife Frida Hollander.

 

 

 

THERES ~~~

                 

    Theres      

 

To the right is a copy of the Index Card indicating transport numbers and the date of Theres's deportation from Brno to Minsk.

NB: Theres was the second wife of Alois Aufrichtig, with whom she  was deported. Alois's first wife, Bertha Krakauer, had been deported to Theresienstadt from Boskovice and then on to Piaski KZ.

 

 

 

WALTER AUFRICHTIG

Walter Aufrichtig and his wife Erna Hindler were deported to Lodz, Poland on 2 November 1941, surviving 10 months in the infamous ghetto before being moved to Chelmno where they were murdered on 9 September 1942. Two and a half years earlier, in the spring of 1939, attempts to escape to Shanghai had been thwarted. Their plight had been the subject of  considerable correspondence between the Vienna-based Israelitisches Kulturgemeinde and The Council for German Jewry in London. Full details are outlined via the following link:

Walter & Erna's bid for freedom

Walter Aufrichtig - Traunkirchen Labor Camp Memorial

 

http://www.aufrichtigs.com/ recommends JewishGen. Please click on the banner on the right to visit this resourceful site.

 

 

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Aufrichtig Holocaust Links:

Egon Aufrichtig's Bid For Freedom

Ernestine Aufrichtig's Correspondence from Theresienstadt

Karoline Aufrichtig & Family

Pauline Aufrichtig & Adolf Drahos-Fleissig

Walter Aufrichtig's Bid For Freedom

Walter Aufrichtig at Traunkirchen

Otto Aufrichtig [Aurich] & Alice [Liesel] Frankel at Kamp Westerbork

Otto Aufrichtig + Lisl Frank at Kamp Westerbork [WIKIPEDIA VERSION]

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Department of Social Security War Victims File

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