Gertrude Tausinger: family papers

Gertrud Rosa Josefine Weinreich was born into a well-to-do family of mixed race in Vienna in 1912. Her father, Max Weinreich (1881-1951), was of Jewish descent. He owned a cloth business. Her mother, Josefine ('Josefa') Leopoldine (1889-1970, née Magor) was a Roman Catholic. Gertrud also had a younger brother, Walter Maximilian, who was born in 1914. Gertrud got married to Emil Glaser (b 1892) in Vienna in 1933, a Jewish wholesaler and manufacturer of dental goods. She assisted her husband in his business in a clerical capacity. Three days after the annexation of Austria the businesses of her father and her husband were seized and Gertrud's parents, brother and husband imprisoned at Rosauerlände. Their personal bank accounts were frozen. Over the next three months all family members were released. Gertrud's father had to sign an undertaking to leave Austria. Gertrud and Emil Glaser fled to England via Prague. They arrived in April 1939. Emil Glaser enlisted in the Pioneer Corps. Gertrud's parents escaped to Prague in December 1938. They obtained a visa for France in 1939 where they lived in a hotel in Paris. After evading numerous Nazi search parties, the couple travelled to Vichy-France in 1940. They were later interned at Camp de Gurs. Max and Josefine Weinreich survived the Holocaust and joined their daughter in London after the Second World War. Max Weinreich started a business as a textile merchant. In 1948 Gertrud got married to Leslie ('Ladislas') Geiger (1897-1965), a Hungarian refugee. They had a son, Peter, in 1950. In 1978 Gertrud got remarried to Albert Tausinger, also a Holocaust survivor.

Family papers- 1 box

Donated August 2008

Donor: Peter Geiger