Irene Jerusalem

Irene Jerusalem (born September 10, 1882 in Nikolsburg, Moravia ; died 1941 or 1942 in occupied Poland) was an Austrian teacher.

Irene was the daughter of the teacher and philosopher Wilhelm Jerusalem and his wife Katharina and lived with her brother Erwin (April 27, 1881– January 30, 1943), Richter, and his son Hans (1916–2004), whom she replaced his mother at the address Auhofstraße 7A (= Hietzinger Hauptstraße 34B) not far from Schönbrunn Palace , the summer residence of Emperor Franz Joseph I. She taught German and French as a high school professor at Hietzinger Gymnasium Wenzgasse , then a girls ' high school .

Memorial plaque for the murdered teachers at the school gate in Larochegasse 2; Recording 2014

In the early 1930s, Irene Jerusalem helped finance housing for (initially ten) homeless girls in the 16th district through donations, and also took part in the lives of the girls in care. The institution was supported by the Settlement , an association founded by women in Vienna that was active until 1938.

In 1937 Jerusalem took early retirement. In 1938 more than 100 pupils in Wenzgasse had to leave the grammar school for “racial” reasons.

At the beginning of 1941 she was still listed in Lehmann's Vienna address book as a high school teacher in Hietzing. On October 30, 1941, Irene Jerusalem was deported by the National Socialist regime to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Łódź (renamed 1939–1945) and never returned. Her death has not been officially confirmed; the place of death could also be the Kulmhof extermination camp .

Her brother Erwin Jerusalem, Higher Regional Court Counselor and Senate Chairman in Vienna, was murdered on January 30, 1943 in Auschwitz. On the tombstone of her father, where she is named as a memory like brother Erwin, the time of her death was given as spring 1942 (see picture here ).

Her brother Edmund (born September 17, 1879 in Nikolsburg , Moravia , died March 23, 1962 in Jerusalem , Israel ) survived the Holocaust.

In 2006 the Irene-Jerusalem-Weg, located between Kalmanstrasse and Lainzerbach in the west of the Speising district of Hietzingen , was named after her .

Web links

• Irene Jerusalem at the Hietzing community
• Entries about Irene Jerusalem in the database of Shoah victims
• Entry on the website of the A Letter to the Stars campaign

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data from the father's tombstone
2. ↑ Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator , Vienna 1941, Volume 1, p. 541 (= p. 655 of the digital representation)
3. ↑ A Letter to the Stars : Letter from his son Hans Jerusalem ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.