Tony Goldschlag

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Tony Goldschlag , also Toni Goldschlag (born as Tony Lermer on September 22, 1890 in Krakow , Austria-Hungary ; died around October 3, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German singer and a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Born Tony Lermer, she came to Germany at a young age, where she made a modest career as a concert singer in Berlin. As a Jewish choir singer, she also performed in the Berlin synagogue and, after Jews had been deprived of all other artistic activities, most recently appeared in events organized by the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden . Tony Goldschlag was used as a slave laborer during World War II. Her deportation and that of her husband Gerhard Goldschlag , a conductor and composer, were postponed for a long time because their daughter Stella Goldschlag worked as a grabber for the Gestapo and helped track down so-called “U-Boats” (Jews submerged in Berlin during the war) in order to then hand them over and thus expose them to their deportation and murder. In the end, Stella's protection didn't help either, and Tony and Gerhard Goldschlag were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on February 23, 1944 by various transports . A good seven months later, they were both deported to Auschwitz. There Tony and Gerhard Goldschlag were allegedly gassed immediately after their arrival on October 3, 1944

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SURNAME Gold strike, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldschlag, Toni; Lermer, Tony (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German concert singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH around October 3, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp