Elfriede Geiringer

Elfriede Geiringer (1989)

Elfriede Geiringer (born Markovits ; born February 13, 1905 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † October 2, 1998 in London ) was a Jewish - Austrian survivor of the Holocaust . She was Otto Frank's second wife .

Life

Geiringer was born in Vienna in 1905 as the daughter of Rudolf Markovits and Helen Markovits. After finishing school, she met Erich Geiringer and later had two children with him, born in 1926 and 1929. When the National Socialists came to power, the family fled first to Belgium and then in 1938 to the Netherlands , where they settled as neighbors of the Frank family.

When the German Wehrmacht occupied the Netherlands and their son Heinz had to report to a labor camp , the family went into hiding. They successfully hid for two years but were betrayed in May 1944. Geiringer was arrested by the Nazis and taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Elfriede Geiringer and daughter Eva were liberated by the Russians in January 1945, but Erich and her son Heinz died on the forced march to Mauthausen shortly before the end of the war.

She and her daughter Eva returned to Amsterdam on June 13, 1945 . After Edith Frank-Holländer , Otto Frank's first wife, died, Elfriede Geiringer married Otto Frank in November 1953. They settled in Basel .

They spent much of their time educating people about the meaning of Anne Frank's diary and the horrors that Jews experienced during the Holocaust. Their commitment led to the foundation of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Elfriede Geiringer died in her sleep in her home in London on October 2, 1998 at the age of 93. Her husband Otto Frank died in 1980.

Web links

Commons : Elfriede Geiringer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Elfriede Frank in the catalog of the German National Library
Elfriede Geiringer in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Anne Frank's step-sister highlights post-Holocaust traumas. Reuters, April 8, 2013, accessed July 12, 2020 .
↑ Robert Gokl: Anne Frank's stepsister Vienna. April 29, 2020, accessed July 12, 2020 .
↑ Elfriede Geiringer. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .
^ Frank Noack: The Father . In: Veit Harlan . University Press of Kentucky, 2016, ISBN 978-0-8131-6700-8 , pp. 25-28 , doi : 10.5810 / kentucky / 9780813167008.003.0002 .

personal data
SURNAME	Geiringer, Elfriede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Markovits, Elfride (maiden name); Frank, Elfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian, Jewish survivors of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	October 2, 1998
Place of death	London

[:0-1] Anne Frank's step-sister highlights post-Holocaust traumas. Reuters, April 8, 2013, accessed July 12, 2020 .

[2] Robert Gokl: Anne Frank's stepsister Vienna. April 29, 2020, accessed July 12, 2020 .

[3] Elfriede Geiringer. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .

[4] Frank Noack: The Father . In: Veit Harlan . University Press of Kentucky, 2016, ISBN 978-0-8131-6700-8 , pp. 25-28 , doi : 10.5810 / kentucky / 9780813167008.003.0002 .