Ettie Steinberg
Ettie Steinberg | |
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| Born | Esther Steinberg 11 January 1914 |
| Died | 4 September 1942 Auschwitz |
| Nationality | Irish |
Ettie Steinberg (1914–1942) was one of only a few Jewish Irish persons killed in the Holocaust in the second World War.[1][2] [3]
Esther Steinberg was born to a Czechoslovakian couple, Aaron Hirsh Steinberg and Bertha Roth, on January 11, 1914. Her family included six siblings and lived at 28 Raymond Terrace, near the South Circular Road in Dublin. They were educated in St Catherine's School in Donore Avenue.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Steinberg worked as a seamstress in Dublin where she met and married Belgian Vogtjeck Gluck in Greenville Hall synagogue in Dublin on July 22, 1937. The couple returned to his home in Antwerp. However the rising tensions of the Nazi actions meant they moved to be further away, and Leon, their son, was born in Paris. They continued to flee the approaching Germans and eventually succeeded in gaining visas to travel to Northern Ireland, arranged by the Steinberg family in Dublin. However the papers arrived a day too late. The family were rounded up and put on a train to Auschwitz where Steinberg, her husband and her son died.[4][5][6][7][9][10]
Clearly aware of what the danger was, Steinberg wrote a postcard to her family and threw it from the train. It read “Uncle Lechem, we did not find, but we found Uncle Tisha B'Av” which meant “we did not find bread, but we found destruction”. A stranger found the postcard and posted it.[4][6] They arrived on September 4, 1942 and, it is believed, were immediately executed.[9]
A memorial to her is at a secondary school in Malahide, Co Dublin,[5][6] as well as at the Irish Jewish Museum in Portobello, Dublin.[9][10]
References
- ^ "RTE Nationwide Special Irish Jewish Community : Irish Jewish Community". www.jewishireland.org.
- ^ [1] Irish Central, "Irish-born Holocaust victims discovered in new research", February 5, 2019
- ^ [2]Irish Times "New research reveals three previously unknown Irish Holocaust victims", January 27, 2019
- ^ a b c "The Dubliner who died at Auschwitz now centre stage". The Irish Times.
- ^ a b c "Memorial to Ireland's only Holocaust victim unveiled". The Irish Times.
- ^ a b c d "Ireland's only Holocaust victim: the story of Ettie Steinberg". IrishCentral.com. 10 April 2017.
- ^ a b Shortall, Eithne (13 August 2017). "Ettie Steinberg: Ireland's only Holocaust victim". The Sunday Times.
- ^ "New play tells of the Cork woman who helped Jewish children escape the Nazis". 14 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d "WOMEN S STORIES OF WORLD WAR II - PDF". docplayer.net.
- ^ a b c "Women's Museum of Ireland: Ettie Steinberg". womensmuseumofireland.ie.