2nd Generation Holocaust Survivor
Kerzner Family History
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Madeleine Kerzner
Grandad Mechel Kerzner
The Kerzner family lived at: Karmelitergrasse 8/19 Vienna 2 Austria Mechel Kerzner had a perfumary shop on the Opposite the Market of Karmeliterplatz. In 1938 the Jewish Community got together both in England and Austria and planned for trains to transport children of of Vienna and the Nazis Party had gained power and a severe hatred of the Jews had risen up all over Austria In 1939 Isidor and Norbert Kerzner where being persecuted on the streets - they where all forced to where a gold star of David on all there clothes so they could be identified. Mechel Kerzner saw the danger and sent Isidor and Norbert Kerzner on a train to England which was being organized by Jews in the United Kingdom. This is called the Kinder-transport
my Father remembers being put on a train with his brother with no explanation by his father and they never saw him again.
my Father remembers being put on a train with his brother with no explanation by his father and they never saw him again.
Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Berlin Germany
Mechel Kerzner born 7.11.1895 lived Karmeliterstrasse . His two sons where Isidor and Norbert Kerzner his only grand daughter - Madeleine Kerzner. Mechel Kerzner was deported 2.10.1939 to Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Weimar (near Berlin) Germany. He was held in this camp till 21.3.1942 when he died this was the spring of great mass killings in all the concentration camps around Europe. His ashes were sent back in an Urne to Vienna and where subsequently buried at Vienna Cemetery 16.6.1942 by
volunteers from Vienna.
His memorial is on Gate 4 - |Groupe 18a row 19 Mechel Kerzner – Sterbeurkunde Arolsen 1764/69
