Ida Barons de Feury

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Ida Freifrau von Feury , née Freiin von Hirsch , (born November 23, 1877 in Munich , † December 23, 1957 in Steinhöring) was a German baroness who belonged to the Planegger branch of the Bavarian aristocratic family of the former Jewish faith of the Barons von Hirsch . She was a survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

Ida Freiin von Hirsch, daughter of Freiherr Emil von Hirsch and Mathilde Ladenburg , married Friedrich Wilhelm von Feury auf Hilling in 1904. The marriage resulted in three children, Irene Marie Freiin von Feury (later married Countess Deym), another daughter who died early, and Otto Freiherr von Feury , who later became President of the Bavarian Farmers' Association . She worked as a charity in Munich and was largely related to the Bavarian royal family. During the First World War she worked as a Red Cross nurse in the military hospital that was set up in her parents' home at Schloss Planegg . She was awarded the Red Cross Medal and, after her husband had died in World War I , the Cross of Honor for surviving dependents.

Ida Baroness von Feury was because of their Jewish origin joined by her brothers Karl Freiherr von Hirsch and Rudolf Freiherr von Hirsch / with the first Munich Age Transport II 1 in the Theresienstadt ghetto deported , where she arrived on June 4 1,942th Because of her merits and her family connections, she was considered a "Celebrity A". She shared a room with her brothers in the "Prominentenhaus", which the housemates called the "Deer Park", and was spared from being transported to the extermination camps. She experienced the end of the war in Theresienstadt and returned to Munich on June 23, 1945 with 297 other Bavarian internees liberated in Theresienstadt. Feury died in Steinhöring in 1957.

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  1. ^ Jörg Zedler: Karl Graf von Spreti. Pictures of a diplomatic career , 2008 Munich p. 29
  2. ^ Institute Theresienstädter Initiative: Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch. The victims of the transport of Jews from Germany to Theresienstadt 1942–1945 , 2000 Prague p. 320
  3. ↑ Elsa Bernstein: Life as a drama. Memories of Theresienstadt , 1999 Munich, p. 178 f.
  4. ↑ Martin Broszat, Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Hans Woller: From Stalingrad to currency reform. On the social history of upheaval in Germany , 1990 Munich p. 334
personal data
SURNAME Feury, Ida of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baroness and survivor of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1957
Place of death Munich