Josef Steinberg (1902 - 1942)

Born 28 Jun 1902 in Frydek, Austrian Silesia

Ancestors

Died 1942 at about age 39 in near Nisko - in a Russian labourcamp

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Biography

Dr Josef (Josl) Steinberg was born in Frydek on 28 June 1902 as one of the three children of Emanuel Steinberg and Berta Müller.^[1][2] Josl studied at the Faculty of Law of the German University in Prague from the winter term 1920/1921 til 29/05/1925. He graduated in 1925. ^[3]

Josl returned to Frýdek and in 1937 became a member of the committee of the Jewish Religious Community in Frýdek. On October 17th 1939 he was deported to a concentration camp near Nisko in the part of Poland occupied by the Germans.^[4]

According to his nephew Petr Munk/Yehuda Manor, in 1942 Josef died of typhus in a Russian labourcamp.

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/1073/reprodukce/?zaznamId=491&reproId=67165
2. ↑ http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/1073/reprodukce/?zaznamId=491&reproId=67187
3. ↑ http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/archiv/public/book/bo/1840355044744327/54/?lang=en
4. ↑ During World War II, Nisko became the focus of the Nazi German Nisko und Lublin Plan of forcible relocation of about 95,000 Jews from all over occupied Poland and from abroad in the name of German Lebensraum. The chief architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, set up a transit camp in Nisko, from which the deportees were to be expelled eastward.

See also:

• https://www.daelba.eu/arch-free/index.php/Josef_Steinberg_(1902)
• Theresienstadt in Bildern und Reimen by Hans Munk and Yehuda Manor