Gaby Blessed

Gaby Glückselig (born April 27, 1914 in Wiesbaden as Gaby Netter ; † April 22, 2015 in New York ) was a German-American goldsmith who fled National Socialism to New York. After the end of her professional activity, she volunteered at the New York Leo Baeck Institute and hosted the Oskar Maria Graf regulars' table .

biography

Gaby Netter came from the Jewish jewelry family Netter. She wanted to study art history , but was not admitted to the course during the Nazi era . Therefore, after graduating from high school in 1933 , she trained as a goldsmith.

In 1938, the parents' business in Wiesbaden was " Aryanized ". Gaby Netter fled to New York, where her parents and sister followed two years later. Several close relatives, including her grandmother, were murdered by the National Socialists.

Gaby Netter worked as a jewelery designer in New York. In 1942 she married the Vienna- born poet and art dealer Friedrich Glückselig (known as Friedrich Bergammer ), who died in 1981. After her retirement, she volunteered at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York , an independent research and documentation facility for the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry .

At the end of the 1980s, Gaby Glückselig hosted the “ Stammtisch der Emigranten ”, which was founded in 1943 by Oskar Maria Graf , as a meeting place for Germans and Austrians who had fled the National Socialists. Until her death in 2015 shortly before her 101st birthday, Gaby Glückselig received German-speaking emigrants in her New York apartment every Wednesday evening.

On her 90th birthday, Gaby Glückselig received the golden citizen medal of the city of Wiesbaden.

In 2007 the film "That's inside me - Gaby Netter Glückselig - Wiesbaden and New York" was made about the life of Gaby Glückselig.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Obituary Gaby Glückselig . Active Museum Spiegelgasse , Wiesbaden
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Heidi Friedrich: 100 years of bliss . Der Spiegel , April 28, 2014
↑ ^a ^b Aliza Schulman: Gaby Glueckselig: Stammtisch Hostess Celebrates a Century of Bliss on the pages of the Leo Baeck Institute, July 18, 2014 (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Happy, Gaby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nice, Gaby (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American goldsmith
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH	April 22, 2015
Place of death	new York

[amspiegelgasse-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Obituary Gaby Glückselig . Active Museum Spiegelgasse , Wiesbaden

[friedrich-2] Heidi Friedrich: 100 years of bliss . Der Spiegel , April 28, 2014

[schulman-3] Aliza Schulman: Gaby Glueckselig: Stammtisch Hostess Celebrates a Century of Bliss on the pages of the Leo Baeck Institute, July 18, 2014 (English)