Nomi Meron

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Nomi Meron , b. Hella Mittler ( March 11, 1924 in Vienna - January 14, 2019 ) was a survivor of the Nazi regime , music teacher and contemporary witness . She lived in Israel from 1939 .

life and work

At the age of fourteen, after the annexation of Austria to the German Empire , Hella was expelled from school, her father lost his job as the main cashier at the Kleine Volks-Zeitung . In September 1938, she and her twin sister Eva were sent to a Hachschara camp in Ahrensdorf near Berlin , where they were prepared for emigration to Palestine . Because she could not get an entry permit for England, she emigrated to Israel with the Youth Aliyah in 1939 , while her parents and older brother emigrated to England . The two sisters lived and worked in the newly established Kibbutz Masada. It was only three years later that she was reunited with her parents. She later started a family in Israel with her husband Isi Meron .

After a few years in agriculture, Meron resumed her musical training, eventually leading several choirs and founding a mandolin orchestra in Kibbutz Massada. She then worked as a music teacher at schools in Degania , Haifa and Jerusalem and developed her own approaches for early musical education based on the mother tongue principle . For several years she was engaged at the Salzburg Summer Music University Weeks at the Orff Institute of the Mozarteum . For more than 30 years, she spent several months of the year in Austria and was involved in the Jewish community as a bridge builder between Jews and Christians. In 2010 she was honored by the Republic of Austria for “her longstanding commitment as a cultural mediator”.

Quote

“Well, that's how it started in school that we were no longer attacked. And then, in April, we were kicked out of school. In the middle of fourth grade high school. [...] And the next day you threw your dad out of work. And then slowly the money ran out. There was no money to buy food. "

- Nomi Meron : A Letter to the Stars, life story

Award

Web links

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  1. ^ Vienna, up to the "Anschluss": Hella Mittler - today: Nomi Meron - Jerusalem - life story of a strong woman
  2. ↑ The Last Witnesses ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2014 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. , accessed November 26, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lettertothestars.at
  3. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved February 7, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Meron, Nomi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mittler, Hella (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Survivor of the Nazi regime, music teacher and contemporary witness
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2019