Elise Steiner: Copy family correspondence

Elise Steiner: Copy family correspondence 

Hermann Steiner (b.1883) was born in Saitz, Moravia. He served in the Austrian army during World War One. He worked in the family stationary business, G. Sax & Companie, until it was expropriated by the Nazis in 1938. He married Johanna Neuspiel (b. 1890) who was born in Lednice, Moravia. Her parents, Leopold and Julie, ran an inn there. they had two children: Elise (Lisl) Steiner (b. 1923) and Leopold (Leo) (1926-1941).

Elise Steiner, the depositor, and addressee, managed to emigrate to Great Britain on 26 November 1938, where she ended up going to school in Southampton. She worked with evacuated school children in a residential nursery during the war and later trained to be a teacher. The parents and Leo, her younger brother, were transported to Kovno on 23 November 1941, where they died 6 days later, probably part of the action which took place in the ghetto on that date in which 10,000 inhabitants were murdered.

 

Elise Steiner: Copy family correspondence