Ewald Kleisinger

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Ewald Kleisinger (born June 11, 1912 in Vienna ; † March 25, 2000 there ) was an Austrian lawyer and Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Ewald Kleisinger attended the Fichtnergasse grammar school in Vienna- Hietzing and studied law at the University of Vienna .

During the Second World War he did military service and after the occupation of Poland was an officer in the Wehrmacht at the railway station in Warsaw . He lived in the house of his future wife Danuta Kleisinger , née Czlapinska, at Krozegasse 41 in the “Aryan” district of the city. The Polish-born Jew Jusek Prezman was in 1942 with his mother Scheine in the Warsaw Ghetto . Before the war, Danuta's mother was a friend of Scheine Prezman's, and Jusek was a friend of Danuta's.

After the establishment of the ghetto, Danuta smuggled food and money for the Prezman family into the ghetto, thereby endangering their lives. Before the ghetto uprising and its destruction in April 1943, Jusek Prezman and his friend Josef Kormarzyn fled to the “Aryan” part of the city with Danuta's help. Danuta hid her in her apartment for three weeks with the knowledge and consent of her fiancé, the officer Ewald Kleisinger. She also saved Jusek's mother, Scheine Prezman.

Danuta was active in the Polish underground movement. With their help she got Jusek Prezman and his friend Josef Kormazyn forged papers. Ewald Kleisinger brought them permits so that they could go to Vienna as Polish farm workers.

Kleisinger, disguised as Polish Christian foreign workers, directed them to his parents, who lived in Vienna. They took Prezman and Kormarzyn in like family members and helped them with money, food and clothing until the end of the war.

Ewald Kleisinger was a doctor of law . He was buried at the Ober Sankt Veiter cemetery .

Web links

Commons : Ewald Kleisinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ewald Kleisinger on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kleisinger, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2000
Place of death Vienna