HARALD LEUPOLD-LCWENTHAL
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November 1941 to RM 51.67. There is a letter ofJanuary 15, 1941
to Dr. Fuhrer:
Dear Doctor: Extreme need forces us in spite of your rejecting
disposition
(ablehenende Haltung)
on the question of our apartment
to request your help. After having to take two couples into our
apartment three months ago we have been assigned another
eight persons, and we four sisters are limited to
one
room, to
serve as bed- and livingroom. As you know, we are somewhat
sickly, often bedridden persons, and the proper ventilation and
cleaning is thus impossible without danger to health, as well as
the accommodation of the things essential to us. The most simple
commandment of
humanity
speaks against such a limitation
[Zwang]
and we cannot believe that you will accept this order
without feeling for us and will refuse us your help. That is why
we appeal to you dear doctor , as our representative, with the
humble plea to interfere with the
ReJerenten
der-
Judenumsiedlung des
Wohnungamtes for
den
1.
Rairk
to assign us an additional four
rather than eight persons. In certainty that you will listen to our
desperate call for help , we are , Sincerely, Marie Freud, Adolfine
Freud, Pauline Winternitz .
On the following day the sisters wrote that this intervention no
longer would be pertinent, eight persons had already moved in.
On March 18, 1942 "Maria Sara Freud" received a letter from
her lawyer: "I have received a notification from the finance office,
Wien Ost, that you are RM 22 . in arrears and they are trying to
have me pay. Lack of money does not allow me to layout this sum.
Therefore it is necessary that you immediately, within the next few
days, go to the above named finance office and speak with the ar–
bitrator about your financial situation." The nonpayment of such
sums could have prevented the emigration of Rosa Graf and Pauline
Winternitz . .
On June 29, 1942 Marie Freud, Adolfine Freud and Paula
Winternitz were brought to Theresienstadt. Rosa Graf followed on
the transport of August 28, 1942 . According to the records, Adolfine
Freud died of "inner bleeding" on February 5, 1943 (most likely of a
syndrome due to hunger). Marie Freud and Pauline Winternitz
were sent to the extermination camp Maly Trostinec on September
23 , 1942 . The record shows a question-mark as to the fate of Rosa
Graf. However, she must have been sent to Treblinka between Oc–
tober 5th and 10th, 1942.
