Deportations to the
"Generalgouvernement" in February/March 1941
Kielce
On Feburary 19, 1941, a deportation transport left Vienna Aspang Station with 1,004 Jewish men, women and children on board, bound for Kielce, a town north of Cracow. A considerable proportion of the population of Kielce was Jewish, and it had risen since the beginning of the war, as people were forced to move there from other parts of Poland. The deported Viennese Jews were at first billetted on Jewish families. On March 31, the ghetto was set up in Kielce. It was fenced in with barbed wire, and no one was allowed to leave on pain of death. At the end of 1941 about 27,000 Jews were living here. Men capable of work were deployed as forced labourers in quarries. In the ghetto itself cobblers, tailors and other tradesmen could carry on their trade.
Between April 1941 and April 1942 about 6,000 persons died of typhoid; many were shot, hanged, or starved to death.
Within a few days (August 20 to 24, 1942) the ghetto was liquidated, and about 21,000 Jews were deported to the extermination camp at Treblinka and murdered. The 2,000 still remaining in the ghetto were then sent to the neighbouring labour camps at Pionki, Blizyn, and Skarzysko Kamienna. The last deportation from Kielce in August 1944 brought the few remaining Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
Of the 1,004 deported Viennese Jews 18 survived.
Dr. Isidor Ehrenfest was born on Dezember 29, 1870. He was a general practitioner at
Simmeringer Hauptstraße 45 in the eleventh district of Vienna. On November 11, 1938, an SA-Mann told
him to vacate his apartment. His last residential address in Vienna was the third district at
Sechskrügelgasse 8. From there he was deported to Kielce on February 19, 1941. His subsequent
fate is unknown.
Group picture taken on June 1, 1941, in Kielce ghetto.
In the 3rd row (standing with black shirt) is Eduard Schleifer, born on February 9, 1887, in Amstetten. In the row in front (far right, seated) is his wife Anna Schleifer née Kohn, born on August 1, 1898. In the front row (in the middle, seated) is their daughter Alice Rusz née Schleifer, born on June 1, 1922. She was the only survivor of her family.
Group picture taken on June 1, 1941, in Kielce ghetto.
In the 3rd row (standing with black shirt) is Eduard Schleifer, born on February 9, 1887, in Amstetten. In the row in front (far right, seated) is his wife Anna Schleifer née Kohn, born on August 1, 1898. In the front row (in the middle, seated) is their daughter Alice Rusz née Schleifer, born on June 1, 1922. She was the only survivor of her family.
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