Samuel Amster

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Samuel Amster (born June 15, 1868 in Dobromyl , Galicia; died after February 5, 1942 ) was an Austrian merchant and a victim of National Socialism .

Life

Amster ran a furniture store and lending money. In the Viennese suburbs of Atzgersdorf and Liesing at the time , he was known as a benefactor , as he offered those borrowers who were in a difficult economic situation or who were unemployed favorable payment methods or deferral of repayments.

Samuel Amster and his wife Ettel (born on March 19, 1867 in Jarosław , Galicia) were deported to Riga on February 6, 1942 , as victims of the Nuremberg Laws , and murdered in 1942. The last known address of the two is the house at Novaragasse 13 in Vienna- Leopoldstadt .

The couple's only son managed to flee to England in time.

Commemoration

Street sign on Amstergasse in Vienna-Liesing

On the basis of a resolution by the municipal council committee for culture on December 18, 1967, Amstergasse in the Liesingen district of Atzgersdorf was named after Samuel Amster.

The Stones of Remembrance Initiative in Liesing lists Ettel and Samuel Amster in the "Prominent Liesinger Victims of the Shoah" section of the Liesinger Victims of National Socialism 1938-1945 list .

Web links

  • Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Patocka: Liesing Victims of National Socialism 1938 - 1945 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steine23.at 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 June 30, 2015
  2. ^ Peter Autengruber : Lexicon of Viennese street names. Meaning, origin, background information, previous designation (s). Vienna Pichler-Verlag, 9th edition 2014
  3. ↑ Heide Liebhart: Persecuted, expelled, murdered ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.david.juden.at 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. , For lasting memory through street names in Vienna 23rd, David, Jewish cultural magazine, accessed on June 30, 2015
  4. ↑ Robert Patocka: Liesing Victims of National Socialism 1938 - 1945 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steine23.at 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 June 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Amster, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian merchant and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobromyl , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH between February 6, 1942 and December 31, 1942