Zappert family: papers

Julius Zappert (1867 Prague-1941 Slough), the great-great-grandson of Wolf Zappert, was a paediatrician and university professor working in Vienna. From 1903 to 1918 he worked as head of the paediatrics department at the Kaiser Franz Joseph Ambulatorium. In 1918 he was nominated director of the newly established Kinderspital der Israelischen Kultusgemeinde where he worked until 1938. He became senior lecturer ('ausserordentlicher Professor') at the University of Vienna in 1915. In 1917, he received the military medal of the Red Cross for his services during World War I. Zappert was nominated privy councillor ('Hofrat') in 1937. From 1930 to 1938 he was a paediatrics consultant for the public health department. Zappert was also actively involved in building and managing a summer camp for sick Jewish children between 1920 and 1938, and held a number of other honorary and charitable positions. After being imprisoned for being Jewish in 1938 he emigrated to England in 1939.

Karl Zappert (1902-1981) was one of three children of Julius Zappert. He fled Vienna with his wife Hilde (née Singer, 1903-1995) and their daughter Marianne shortly after the annexation of Austria, when Marianne was still a toddler. They initially went to Denmark where they were staying with a family of farmers. At the end of 1939 they managed to obtain permission to go to England. They lived in Slough for about two years before emigrating to Brazil. Marianne taught English as a foreign language. She returned to England in 1960 and soon found employment with the BBC where she made her career as programme producer in the Latin American department. She retired in 1982.