Marko Feingold

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Marko Feingold (2015)

Marko M. Feingold (born May 28, 1913 in Neusohl , Kingdom of Hungary , today Slovakia ; died September 19, 2019 in Salzburg ) was President of the Salzburg Jewish Community until spring 2019 and looked after the Salzburg synagogue . At the age of 106, he was the oldest Holocaust survivor in Austria .

Life

Marko Feingold grew up with his three siblings in Leopoldstadt, Vienna . After an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk, he found work in Vienna. In 1932 he became unemployed and went to Italy with his brother Ernst, where he successfully worked as a salesman for floor wax and liquid soap.

Shortly after the “Anschluss” in 1938, he was arrested during a short stay in Vienna. He first fled to Prague, was deported to Poland and returned to Prague with false papers, where he was arrested again in May 1939, imprisoned and finally deported to Auschwitz . Via the Neuengamme and Dachau concentration camps , he finally came to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1941 , where he was interned until the liberation.

By chance he settled in Salzburg in 1945, where he has lived ever since. Between 1945 and 1948 he helped Jewish survivors who lived in DP camps in Salzburg and organized the (illegal) transit of 100,000 Jews from Central and Eastern Europe to Palestine with the Jewish refugee organization Bricha . In 1948 he became the owner of a fashion store (Wiener Moden) in Salzburg. During this time he was initially a member of the SPÖ , but resigned from the party in the 1950s after experiencing intrigues and anti-Semitic politicians, namely Karl Renner . Feingold later became an honorary member of the SPÖ. He was the only one of his family to survive the concentration camps. Feingold was married twice.

Act

“The last witnesses” with Marko Feingold

Feingold was President of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Salzburg from 1946 to 1947. After his retirement in 1977 Feingold became the acting vice-president and in 1979 again president of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Salzburg. Since then he has also developed extensive lecturing activities, especially as a contemporary witness in schools and parishes, about the Holocaust, his experiences in the concentration camps and Judaism . He was also an active participant in interreligious dialogue .

Marko Feingold has been an honorary member of Alpine Peace Crossing since 2007 . The APC peace hike leads every last weekend in June along the route laid out by Feingold over the 2634 meter high Krimmler Tauern to South Tyrol. In 1947 he smuggled over 5000 inmates of the Givat Avoda ( Labor Hill ) DP camp in Saalfelden on foot from Austria.

In the 2013/2014 season he took part in the contemporary witness production The Last Witnesses by Doron Rabinovici and Matthias Hartmann at the Burgtheater in Vienna . The production related to the November pogroms in 1938 , was highly valued by the public and the press and was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden . On the occasion of his 105th birthday, he realized that Salzburg had become “different” than it used to be. As part of the celebrations, he kicked off the football integration world championship, in which 40 nations took part.

Marko Feingold died on September 19, 2019 at the age of 106 in Salzburg.

Publications

  • (Ed.): An eternal nonetheless. 125 years of Jews in Salzburg. Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1993, ISBN 978-3-205-98109-1 .
  • Once you've died, nothing hurts anymore. A survival story. Picus Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85452-441-2 . New edition: Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7013-1196-5 .

Awards and honors

Feingold was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) Class VII: Religions of the World,

Since 2013, the State of Salzburg and the City of Salzburg together with the University of Salzburg have awarded the Marko Feingold Prize for a dissertation that deals with the material culture, life and / or work of the Jewish population, their work and influence on culture, science, Deals with literature of the respective society and time period or their persecution, expulsion, exile and / or diaspora experiences in the most varied of world regions and historical time contexts. The first award winner was the historian Jacob Eder from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , who received the award for his study of the reactions of West German politicians and diplomats to the increasing grappling of American society with the history of the Holocaust since the 1970s.

Web links

Commons : Marko Feingold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. Alexandra Föderl-Schmid : Marko Feingold died: Der Retter. In: sueddeutsche.de . September 20, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019.
  3. The Enlightenment from Leopoldstadt. In: wienerzeitung.at . May 28, 2016, accessed September 20, 2019.
  4. a b Marko Feingold is dead. In: orf.at . September 20, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019.
  5. ^ Albert Lichtblau: Interviews with victims of National Socialism from Austria: Marko Feingold . Lichtblau Collection in the Austrian Media Library , May 9, 1999, accessed on February 17, 2018 (Feingold tells of his deportation to Auschwitz; audio 6:11 minutes).
  6. Max "Marko" Feingold: "Even with the socialists it was said: Saujud, sneak up!" In: stern.de. February 17, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 . 1st SPÖ president "was known for a long time as an anti-Semite". In: krone.at. June 3, 2018, accessed June 5, 2018 .
  7. At the age of 100 in the middle of a job , kurier.at , May 22, 2013
  8. Marko M. Feingold: Anyone who has died once no longer hurts. Pp. 277-279.
  9. Peace Walk . In: alpinepeacecrossing.org. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
  10. Alexandra Föderl-Schmid: Marko Feingold: Holocaust survivor and contemporary witness. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .
  11. Feingold: Even prisoners don't want to remember . In: salzburg24.at. May 30, 2018, accessed May 30, 2018 .
  12. Harald Saller: Integration World Cup: Marko Feingold makes the honor kick. In: Salzburger Nachrichten. May 30, 2018, accessed May 30, 2018 .
  13. Honorary citizenship for Councilor Marko M. Feingold . Press release of the City of Salzburg, January 18, 2008, accessed on February 17, 2018.
  14. Marko Feingold receives Otto Bauer badge . Salzburger Nachrichten, May 13, 2015, accessed on November 13, 2015.
  15. Tolerance price for Marko Feingold . orf.at, January 21, 2018, accessed on February 17, 2018.
    Franziska Huber: Prize of Tolerance to Marko Feingold . European Academy of Sciences and Arts, January 26, 2018, accessed February 17, 2018.
  16. Honor for Holocaust survivors Feingold. In: derstandard.at . February 1, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019.
  17. EASA website → Organization → Members. ( Memento of September 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  18. First Marko Feingold Prize awarded in Salzburg . Salzburger Nachrichten , January 22, 2014, accessed on February 17, 2018.
  19. Marko Feingold Prize awarded for the first time . Salzburger Nachrichten, January 21, 2014, accessed on February 17, 2018.