Alois and Josephine Kreiner

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Alois (* around 1898, † 1961) and Josephine Kreiner (* around 1900, † 1974) are Austrian Righteous Among the Nations .

Life and act of rescue

The couple Alois and Josephine Kreiner owned a wine wholesaler in Vienna . They lived in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , in the 15th district of Vienna, at Zwölfergasse 27. They had a son, Otto (* January 27, 1926; † December 21, 2011). Otto Kreiner was sixteen years old when his parents' rescue act began in June / July 1942.

Alois Kreiner was the best friend of Walter Posiles (* 1897), a Czech citizen living in Vienna . Walter Posiles, like Alois Kreiner, also ran a wine shop. Walter Posiles met Edeltrud Becher (* 1916), a young Viennese woman, in the spring of 1937 (according to other sources: 1936) at the Café Museum in Vienna . Walter Posiles was 19 years older than Edeltraud Becher. Walter Posiles and Edeltraud Becher got engaged. In 1938 they both wanted to get married, but marriage was forbidden under the Nuremberg Laws because Walter Posiles was Jewish . After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Walter Posiles fled first to Bratislava and later to Prague .

In July 1942, Walter Posiles, together with his two brothers Hans and Ludwig, received the order to be deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp . The Posiles brothers then faked suicide , left forged farewell letters, took the night train and fled to Vienna together. There they went into hiding. They were hidden by Edeltraud Becher and her sister Charlotte Becher in the studio apartment of Friedrich Kun [t] z, Charlotte Becher's fiancé, in Vienna's Neubau district , Vienna's 7th district, Neustiftgasse 33. Kun [t] z was a soldier in the war, so that the apartment was vacant most of the time. As soon as Kun [t] z was on vacation, the three brothers had to be taken to alternative quarters by the Becher sisters.

One of these alternative quarters was the apartment of the couple Alois and Josephine Kreiner. Alois and Josephine Kreiner hid Ludwig Posiles in their apartment from June / July 1942 until the end of the war in May 1945, initially for a short period of time, then later for a longer period of time. The Kreiner couple also provided Ludwig Posiles with the camouflage to conceal his Jewish origins. The camouflage consisted in the fact that Posiles, presented to customers as an “ Aryan ” relative of the Kreiner family, was employed in the Kreiner's wine shop and was also paid. At night he hid in an attic room in the couple's apartment.

The Kreiner couple regularly collected ration cards for Ludwig Posiles. In addition, the Kreiner couple also supported the brothers of Ludwig Posiles, Walter and Hans, who were hiding elsewhere, with food shipments. They procured, along with other friends, drugs , as Walter Posiles in August 1942 to a life-threatening lung and pleurisy ill.

During the time of National Socialism , Alois and Josephine Kreiner endangered themselves through their help for Ludwig Posiles and his brothers. A particular risk for the Posiles was that they had to let their son Otto know about their actions. The sixteen-year-old boy confessed to the rescue act.

On October 26, 1978, Alois and Josephine Kreiner were jointly awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem .

literature

  • Israel Gutman , Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations - Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2005; ISBN 3-89244-900-7 ; P. 322 f .; 349.
  • Mosche Meisels: The Righteous Austria - A Documentation of Humanity. Published by the Austrian Embassy in Tel Aviv, 1996, pp. 17–22; On-line
  • Erika Weinzierl : Too few righteous people. Austria and the persecution of the Jews 1938-1945 , Styria, Graz-Wien-Cologne, 4th edition 1997, ISBN 978-3222125027 , pages 146, 216.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Rassenschande in: Die Gerechten Österreichs - A Documentation of Humanity. By Mosche Meisels, published by the Austrian Embassy in Tel Aviv, 1996.
  2. ↑ The sources provide different information about the time the rescue operation began. In Israel Gutman , Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations - Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2005; ISBN 3-89244-900-7 ; P. 322 f. June 1942 is named as the beginning. In Mosche Meisels: The Righteous Austria - A Documentation of Humanity . Published by the Austrian Embassy in Tel Aviv, 1996, pp. 17–22, the deportation order for the Posiles brothers is dated July 1942; as a result, the rescue operation could have started in July 1942 at the earliest after the brothers had fled to Vienna.
  3. ↑ a b c Righteous Among the Nations: Edeltrud Posiles - 95 years ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (article about Edeltraud Posiles on his 95th birthday)
  4. ^ Israel Gutman , Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations - Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2005; ISBN 3-89244-900-7 ; P. 349.
  5. ↑ Alois and Josephine Kreiner on the website of Yad Vashem (English)