Gertrude Würzburger

Gertrude Würzburger (born as Gertrude Hirsch on October 20, 1889 in Offenbach am Main , German Reich ; died on May 3, 1942 in the Kulmhof extermination camp ) was a German teacher , pianist and music teacher . She became a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

The daughter of the Poznan merchant Isidor Hirsch and his wife Auguste Hirsch grew up in Offenbach, but came to Frankfurt am Main as a teenager, where she would spend most of her artistic life. After her training, Gertrude Hirsch worked as a teacher for religion, English and French at the Holzhausenschule. Together with her husband, the organist Siegfried Würzburger , she set up a musical support program called “Jugend musiziert”. Like her husband, she also gave private piano lessons and worked as a music teacher.

In autumn 1941 Gertrude Würzburger and her husband were deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto . In the following year after the death of her husband, the musician and teacher was transferred to the Kulmhof extermination camp, where she was murdered in early May 1942. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, three of the four children Hans, Walter, Paul Daniel and Karl Robert were rescued by their parents to safe foreign countries; only the son Hans, who had asthma, stayed with his parents and also died a violent death.

Web links

• Vitae family Würzburger on frankfurt.de
• Gertrude Würzburger on lexm.uni-hamburg.de
• Gertrude Würzburger on ushmm.org

literature

• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 421 f.