Jonny Moser
Jonny Moser (born December 10, 1925 in Parndorf ; † July 23, 2011 ) was an Austrian historian and survivor of the Holocaust.
Life
Jonny Moser was born to Jewish parents Josef and Katharina Moser, who owned a general store in Parndorf . In the course of the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany, the National Socialists drove the Jews in Burgenland to Hungary . For the Moser family, the months of house arrest in Parndorf and the Aryanization of the property were. The family then moved to Vienna , where the father was arrested again by the Gestapo . In 1939 his father Josef Moser was able to leave for Budapest and was interned by the Hungarians. In October 1940 the mother was able to travel to Budapest with son Jonny and daughter Herma, where the family lived in several Hungarian camps. In the summer of 1944 the family was unexpectedly released and presented to the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg at the Swedish embassy, provided with Swedish protective passports and housed in sheltered houses . Jonny Moser was accepted as a member of the aid team around Raoul Wallenberg.
After the war, Jonny Moser studied history at the University of Vienna , later doing his doctorate. phil. with a dissertation on "Anti-Semitism in Austria". He published works on the National Socialist persecution of Jews in Austria. Jonny Moser was a co-founder and from 1964 a board member in the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance . From 1964 to 1996 Moser was a district councilor of the SPÖ in Vienna's 1st district . He was a member of the federal executive committee of the Social Democratic Freedom Fighters , as well as the Association of Victims of Fascism and Active Anti-Fascists and acted as treasurer of the campaign against anti-Semitism in Austria . His autobiography “Wallenberg's errand boy. Jugenderinnerungen 1938-1945 ”was published in 2006.
Awards
- 2011 Federal Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria together with the freedom fighters and activists Gertrude Spieß , Hugo Pepper and Peter Weidner
Publications
- The persecution of the Jews in Austria. 1938-1945. Monographs on contemporary history, Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1966.
- Alex Colman: In silence for forty years. Revision by Jonny Moser, materials on contemporary history - Volume 4, Geyer Edition, Vienna 1985.
- with Wolfgang Neugebauer , Anton Steier: Risen from the ruins. 40 years of the SPÖ Vienna Inner City . 1945–1985. Socialist Party of Austria - District Organization Inner City, Vienna 1988.
- Demography of the Jewish population in Austria 1938–1945. Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-901142-42-8 .
- Wallenberg's errand boy. Youth memories 1938–1945. Autobiography, Picus-Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-85452-615-5 .
- Nisko . The first deportations of Jews. History 1939, Joseph W. Moser and James R. Moser (Eds.), Ed. Steinbauer, Vienna 2012.
literature
- Margit Craß: Dr. Jonny Moser 'Wallenberg's errand boy' and historian p. 56f. In: Burgenland. 90 years - 90 stories. Accompanying volume for the exhibition. Scientific papers from Burgenland (WAB) Volume 137, Landesmuseum Burgenland , Eisenstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-85405-180-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jonny Moser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jonny Moser (1925-2011) on www.doew.at
- "Kezeket fel!" Raise your hands! on www.oesterreich-2005.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jaroslav Pánek, Svatava Raková, Václava Horčáková: Scholars of Bohemian, Czech and Czechoslovak History Studies , Institute of History, 2005, Volume 2, p. 288
- ^ Federal Chancellor Faymann on the death of the Austrian freedom fighter Prof. Jonny Moser APA / OTS, July 25, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moser, Jonny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian historian and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parndorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 2011 |