Erna Patak
Erna Patak (born Ernestine Eisenmann November 4, 1871 in Brno , Austria-Hungary ; died April 19, 1955 in Tel Aviv ) was an Austrian social worker and Zionist. She survived imprisonment in the Theresienstadt ghetto .
Life
Ernestine Eisenmann was a daughter of the businessman Adolf Eisenmann and Fanni Kohnberger. In 1890 she married the tobacco and paper goods manufacturer and paper wholesaler Samuel Patak (1858–1932), they lived in Vienna, where she ran a salon . She got to know people from the Zionist movement and in 1898 was one of the founders of a Zionist women's association in Vienna. Patak ran a convalescent home in Vienna, where she took in Theodor Herzl's eldest daughter Pauline (1890–1930) in 1907 when the family was in financial difficulties. Patak's marriage ended in divorce in 1909.
During the First World War she organized aid for the Jews of Galicia who fled from the front to Vienna. In 1919 she ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for Robert Stricker's Jewish National Party for the Constituent National Assembly of German Austria . In her election manifesto she called, among other things, for a new basis of welfare .
“Not philanthropy, but law . Right of every citizen to his subsistence level and to state aid in undeserved need. Right of those able to work to work and gain! "
From 1924 Patak headed the Austrian section of the Women's International Zionist Organization , WIZO.
Patak was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942. She survived imprisonment and emigrated to London in 1947 and from there to Israel in 1949.
Fonts (selection)
- The Strickers in Theresienstadt , in: Josef Fraenkel (Ed.): Robert Stricker . London: Ararat Publishing Society, 1950
literature
- Armin A. Wallas (Ed.): Eugen Hoeflich. Diaries 1915 to 1927 . Vienna: Böhlau, 1999 ISBN 3-205-99137-0 , p. 344
- Evelyn Adunka : Exile at home. About the Austrians in Israel . Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2002, ISBN 3-7065-1482-6
Web links
- Dieter Hecht: Erna Patak 1871–1955 , at Jewish Women's Archive (JWA)
Individual evidence
- ^ Frieder Schmidt (editor): International Bibliography on Paper History (IBP): Reporting period: up to and including the year of publication 1996 . Munich: Saur, 2003 ISBN 3-598-11259-9 , p. 993
- ^ Armin A. Wallas: Eugen Hoeflich , 1999, p. 344
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Patak, Erna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eisenmann, Erna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian feminist and Zionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1955 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |