Ela Stein-Weissberger

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Ela Stein-Weissberger (2013)

Ela Stein-Weissberger (born June 30, 1930 ; died March 30, 2018 ) was a survivor of the Holocaust . She appeared internationally as a contemporary witness , starred in several documentaries and was best known for her role as the cat in the children's opera Brundibár .

Life

Ela Stein-Weissberger was deported to Theresienstadt at the age of 11 together with her mother, her grandmother, an uncle and her sister four years older . As a child she took part in all performances of the Brundibár children's opera in the Theresienstadt concentration camp and most recently appeared more than 70 years later in 2018 at a gala performance of the opera by the Terezín Music Foundation . She always played the role of the cat. Ela Stein-Weissberger also took part in the performance of Brundibár for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1944. Ela Stein-Weissberger can be seen in the Nazi propaganda film The Führer Gives the Jews a City . Her memories of the time of the Holocaust are recorded in the 2006 book The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin , which she wrote with Susan Goldmann Rubin . She is mentioned in the book Die Mädchen von Zimmer 28 by Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick . After the liberation in 1945, Ela Stein-Weissberger initially moved to Prague with her mother . Since they do not, however, under the Communist regime wanted to live, she emigrated to Israel, where they for the intelligence service of the Navy worked, got married and gave birth to a daughter. In 1959 the family moved to the USA, where Ela Stein-Weissberger worked as a graphic designer and interior designer . Since the 1980s she has traveled through the USA and other countries as a contemporary witness .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “The Show Will Go On” Starring Ela Weissberger. In: The Ripple Project. August 9, 2018, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Robert Wiener: Survivor recalls her role in defiant children's opera. Retrieved April 6, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ Ela Weissberger, survivor. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Susan Goldman Rubin, Ela Weissberger: The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin . Holiday House, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8234-2154-1 ( google.de [accessed April 6, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Holocaust survivor to appear with 'Brundibár' performances. In: Crescent City Jewish News. May 8, 2016, accessed April 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stein-Weissberger, Ela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stein, Ela (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holocaust survivor and contemporary witness
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1930
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2018