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ANDREAS HOFER STRASSE - Wilten quarter
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Andreas Hofer Strasse 29
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At Andreas Hofer Strasse 29, lived the widower Arthur Goldenberg with his younger son Fritz. On the night of the progrom, up to six perpetrators invaded the apartment and knocked out several teeth in battering the widower.
By the autumn of 1938, the older son Alfred had already sought refuge in Palestine; Arthur’s wife (Rosa, née Gutstein) committed suicide by jumping out of window of the apartment on November 2nd, 1938.
In 1939, Fritz and his father reached Palestine. (I)
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On November 1st, 1938 the married couple Julius and Emma Pasch, née Schneider and their two youngest children (Ruth and Gerda) were kicked out of their dwelling in Anichstrasse 1 and forcibly put into the apartment of the elderly Anna Seidel and Adolf Neumann in Andreas Hofer Strasse 29. There, the Pasch family were witness to the suicide of Rosa Goldenberg. During the night of the progrom, perpetrators broke in and badly beat up the old Jewish couple. They didn´t touch the Pasch children and overlooked their parents, who were in a separate bedroom.
Adolf Neumann was deported to Poland and murdered there, while Anna Seidel survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and came back to Innsbruck in 1945. Willi Seidel, son of Anna Seidel, reached Vienna in March 1938 and escaped to Palestine in February 1939. He died there, in a mining accident, in the same year. (II)
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Andreas Hofer Strasse 40
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Flora
Bauer, née Gold, widow of Julius Bauer and her son Stefan lived at Andreas Hofer Strasse 40, where they were assaulted and injured
during the night.
Flora
Bauer was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and from
there to the the Maly Trostinec extermination camp where she was murdered
on 26 September 1942.
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Stefan
Bauer - later Bower - emigrated from Vienna to New Zealand via
Genova in 1939, where he founded a clothes shop which was later taken over
by his son Ron Bower.
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Flora, Stefan, Wilhelm and Julis Bauer 1916 (a) |
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On January 13th, 2002 Ron Bower took an entry in the guestbook:
"Incredible site, I knew some of the details about this, but to see my family names there, was very emotional.
If anybody has any informations that can help me in my family reseach, I would appreciate it very much."
In June 2006 Ron Bower and his wife Sandra visited Innsbruck for the first time. Together with Inge Brüll we were at the Jewish Cemetery, at his father´s place at Andreas Hofer Strasse 40, at Gänsbacherstrasse 5, where his uncle Wilhelm was murdered and at the Memorial on Landhausplatz. (I)
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| Literature: |
Martin Achrainer
- Das Pogrom-Denkmal, in: Gabriele
Rath / Andrea Sommerauer / Martha Verdorfer (Hg.), "Bozen Innsbruck
- zeitgeschichtliche stadtrundgänge", Folio Verlag 2000, S 85
- 89
Ernst Oppenheim
- To Remember Me
By - First Crusade Through Holocaust - Facts, Fragments, Lore and Legends, Nobis Press
Horst Schreiber
- Jüdische
Geschäfte in Innsbruck - Eine Spurensuche, Projekt
des Abendgymnasiums Innsbruck; Tiroler Studien zu Geschichte und Politik
1, herausgegeben von der Michael-Gaismair-Gesellschaft, StudienVerlag
2001, S 29-31
Gad Hugo Sella
- Die Juden Tirols
- Ihr Leben und Schicksal, Israel 1979, S 86-88
Maria Luise Stainer
-"Ich hab´mich
gefühlt wie bei der Vertreibung aus dem Paradies" - Berichte
Vertriebener aus Tirol, in: Thomas
Albrich (Hg.), „Wir lebten wie sie...“. Jüdische Lebensgeschichten
aus Tirol und Vorarlberg, Haymon-Verlag Innsbruck 1999, S. 355-372
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| Picture credits: |
(a) Private ownership Ron Bower
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| References: |
Ron Bower - various emails and visit Innsbruck 2006
Valerie Neal - various emais 2007/2008
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| Translation: |
(I)
Gerhard Buzas (II) Valerie Neal |
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