Franziska Tausig

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Franziska Tausig (born May 9, 1895 in Timisoara ; † January 1, 1989 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian-Austrian cook and author.

Life

She was married to the Hungarian lawyer Aladar Tausig in the Hungarian part of Transylvania and was the mother of the Austrian actor and director Otto Tausig, who was born in Vienna on February 13, 1922 .

In 1938 she made the decision to send her then 16-year-old son to work as a worker in England through an advertisement in the London Times , which enabled her to save him from the foreseeable persecution of Jews after the annexation of Austria.

A little later Franziska Tausig managed by chance to get two tickets for the Usaramo for herself and her husband in Vienna . The Usaramo was a ship initially chartered by Germans for the arms trade to Spain, which was brought to Japan for scrapping and on the way deposited Jews for a lot of money in Shanghai, which was still ready to be accepted . So she was able to emigrate to Shanghai with her husband suffering from TB , where he died. It was not until 1948 that she met her son Otto again in Vienna.

Franziska Tausig's parents were deported to Theresienstadt during the Nazi era and later gassed in Treblinka . Her father owned a lumber yard that was "Aryanized" . As compensation, he received 60,000 Reichsmarks , which were transferred to a blocked account that he could not dispose of. When Franziska Tausig found out about this account after her return, she was informed that this money had been transferred to the Gestapo for the resettlement of Jews . In addition, the bank charged 35 shillings (2.54 euros) for the cost of the investigation.

Only a few years ago, their son Otto succeeded in convincing the bank to adjust the amount to today's conditions and to make the money available to people who are in a similar situation today. Finally, an agreement was reached on the sum of 400,000 schillings (29,069 euros), which was used in memory of the grandmother for the diaconal Laura Gatner house for unaccompanied minor refugees in Hirtenberg , Lower Austria .

In 1987 she published her memoirs Shanghai Passage. Escape and exile of a Viennese woman. In this book, she describes the desperate attempts to leave Austria under National Socialism in 1938 and the associated struggle for survival.

In 2013, Tausigplatz in Vienna- Wieden (4th district) was named after her and her son Otto Tausig.

Works

  • Shanghai Passage. Escape and exile of a Viennese woman . Biographical texts on cultural and contemporary history, Volume 5, ZDB -ID 1069480-8 . Publishing house for social criticism , Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-900351-65-1 .
    • Shanghai Passage. Emigration to the Ghetto 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Afterword by Otto Tausig; Preface by Helmut Opletal . Milena, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-85286-144-6 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ivette Löcker: Franziska Tausig: Shanghai Passage. Emigration to the ghetto . In: literaturhaus.at . (Review). March 13, 2007, accessed November 17, 2012.
  2. ↑ Shanghai far from where . (Reviews). In: perlentaucher.de , accessed on November 17, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Tausig, Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Timisoara
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1989
Place of death Vienna