Kurt Rosenkranz
Kurt Rosenkranz (born August 2, 1927 in Vienna ) is an Austrian adult educator .
Life
Rosenkranz grew up in the Brigittenau district of Vienna . His Jewish parents and grandparents had immigrated from Eastern Europe. At the age of 9 he became a choirboy in the house of prayer on Kaschlgasse.
In the course of the annexation to Hitler's Germany in 1938, Rosenkranz experienced riots and humiliations, he had to leave his school and was moved to a collective school for Jews at 43 Währinger Strasse. The family fled to Riga . Since German troops caught up with the family there, the Rosenkranz family was transferred to Soviet prison camps and interned first in Novosibirsk in Russia and later in Karaganda in Kazakhstan.
In 1946 Rosenkranz returned to Vienna and worked with his father in his small shoe factory.
In 1989 he founded the Jewish Institute for Adult Education .
For his services, he was awarded the title of Professor and in 2010 the Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Association of Jewish Religious Communities in Austria.
His brother Herbert Rosenkranz was a historian in Yad Vashem .
Fonts
- with David Zelinger (Ed.): Obligation of a Survivor - Speeches and Reports . Bohmann, Vienna 1993.
literature
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1145.
- Christian H. Stifter, Brigitte Ungar-Klein (Ed.): Education against prejudice. Festschrift on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Jewish Institute for Adult Education . Verlag Österreichisches Volkshochschularchiv , Vienna 2000 (= materials on the history of adult education centers. Volume 4), ISBN 3-902167-01-7 .
Web links
- Jewish Institute for Adult Education
- www.centropa.org: Kurt Rosenkranz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audio tracks, short biography of Kurt Rosenkranz
- ^ Herbert Exenberger: May 16, 1938 - "Training" for Jewish children from Viennese compulsory schools . In: DÖW Mitteilungen. Volume 187, July 2008, p. 7 f. ( Online ; PDF; 130 kB)
- ↑ enken.at Video with Kurt Rosenkranz at school in 1938, Maria Ecker in Vienna, July 2008.
- ↑ adulteducation.at Jewish Institute for Adult Education
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosary, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian adult educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |