Lilli Tauber

Lilli Tauber

March 13, 1927-Present Day

• Lilli was around 11 years old during WW2, and lived with her father and mother and brother. Before things got too bad Lilli’s parents sent her off to England until the war was over. Her older brother fled to Israel, and her parents stayed in Austria and were sent to a ghetto in Poland still being able to communicate with Lilli through letters. All of a sudden the letters stopped and she never heard from her parents again. To this day she has no clue what extermination camp they were sent to to be killed. Lilli came back to Austria to find everything she once had gone, except for one little black suitcase which contained hundreds of pictures of her family and of life in the ghetto where her mother and father were. The suitcase also contained every single letter she ever wrote or received from her father during the war. Soon after she met her husband and they married and had two sons. Lilli was interviewed in 2003 of her experience during the war.

Lilli Tauber in England with other immigrant girls from

Austria

Lilli at the age of 14 in England

A letter by Lilli written to her father

Lilli in England at the beach during the war

Lilli’s mother Johanna

Lilli’s father Wilhelm Schischa

Lilli as an infant with her older brother Eduard

Post Office in the Opole ghetto

Lilli’s parents in the Opole ghetto

How they slept in the ghetto

Lilli and her husband Max

Lilli and her two sons Willie(left) and

Heinz(right)

Lilli’s Timeline• Born March 13, 1927• November 19, 1938

Kristallnacht• 1938 sent to England

by parents• February 26, 1941

Lilli’s parents brought to Opole Ghetto in Poland

• September 1941 Lilli’s parents are sent to an extermination camp

• October 1946 Lilli returns to Austria

• New Years 1953 Lilli marries her husband Max Tauber

• December 3, 1954 Lilli’s first son Wilhelm is born: named after her father

• August 11, 1957 Lilli’s second son Heinz is born

• 2003 Lilli has her Centropa interview

Austria

Post WWI Post WWII

Austria

Flag of Austria before WWII

Emperor of Austria before and after WW1

At this time Austria was a monarchy between the crowns of Austria and

Hungary

ReligionThe main religion was Roman Catholicism

Up until the “Anschulus”, or the union of Austria and Germany, Jews were looked down upon but could still participate in their religion

Jews worshipping in a synagogue

Economy• During this time Jews were not allowed to

go to the movies, be out after 8 o’clock, and shop, eat, or live anywhere where “Juden” or Jew was not listed

• The currency was called Krone

Austrian currency before the start of

WW2

• After the Anti-Semitism broke out in Austria Jewish children were no longer able to attend school with other children and would often attend school in the local synagogue

• Even before Austria gained forces with Germany many Jews lived together in large communities anyway

Jewish home burnt down during WW2

After the War

• Many came back to nothing, and had to start a new life, and some just never came back home because they were victims of this atrocity

• Many innocent people suffered during this time in history, and we should never forget what happened, because they never will

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