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Zeisler, Gertrude, [1887,1888]-1942

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Personal name headingZeisler, Gertrude, [1887,1888]-1942
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Variant(s)Lion, Gertrude, [1887,1888]-1942
Birth date[1887-10-13,1888-10-13]
Death date1942
Place of birthLiberec (Czech Republic)
Place of deathTreblinka (Poland)
Field of activityHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Profession or occupationJews, Czech Holocaust victims
Found inZeisler, Gertrude. I did not survive: letters from the Kielce ghetto, 1981 title page (Gertrude Zeisler)
Geni, via WWW, viewed June 28, 2019: (access point: Gertrude Zeisler; born on October 13, 1887, in Liberec, Liberec District, Liberec Region, Czech Republic, as Gertrude Lion; wife of Dr. Max Zeisler. Died in 1942 at age 54 in Treblinka, OstroĢw Mazowiecka County, Mazowieckie, Poland. Daughter of Rudolf and Emilie Lion. Sister of: Robert and Arthur Lion, Ilka Illy Pollatschek, and Manfred Lion.) Jewish Families from Liberec (Reichenberg), Bohemia, Czech Republic. About. WWII ("Alternate German name: Reichenberg. Liberec is located in Bohemia, Liberec...)
   <https://www.geni.com/people/Traud-Gertrude-Zeisler/6000000014773915603>
   <https://www.geni.com/projects/Jewish-Families-from-Liberec-Reichenberg-Bohemia-Czech-Republic/13188>
Yad Vshem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center. The Central Database of Shoah victims' names, via WWW, viewed June 28, 2019: A Page of Testimony (Gertrude Zeisler (Lion); born October 13, 1887 in Reichenberg; spouse, Max Zeisler; place of residence before the war Strassergasse, Austria; Died in a concentration camp in Poland in 1942.) Letter signed by Gertrude Zeisler, (Dated: Vienna, 3 November, 1939, Applying for an affidavit to go to America; "I was born the 13th of October 1888 in Reichenberg, now Germany") Information based on the Page of Testimony ("Gertrude Zeisler nee Lion was born in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia in 1887 to Rudolf and Emma. She was married to Max. Prior to WWII she lived in Vienna, Austria. During the war she was in Vienna, Austria. Gertrude was murdered in the Shoah.")
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Treblinka Roll of Remembrance. Last Update 22 April 2006, via WWW, viewed August 2, 2019 (access point: Zeisler, Gertrude; Austrian Jewess who was deported in 1941 from Vienna to the Kielce Ghetto. In the end of August 1942 she was deported with several thousand Jews from Kielce to Treblinka. After the war her relatives published her letters, sent from the Kielce Ghetto to Switzerland. In the letters she described her life in the ghetto. The book has the title "I did not survive. Letters from Kielce Ghetto". Edited by G. Hoffer. Jerusalem-California 1981. Source: K. Urbanski: Kieleccy Zydzi. Kielce)
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