Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers

Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers 

Joseph Weiss (1903-1986) was born in Vienna and married Margaret Goldstein (1903-1983), with whom he worked at the Anglo-Austrian Bank (later Anglo-International Bank). In July 1938 they left Austria for Czechoslovakia with Joseph’s mother, Olga Weiss (1882-1942), and stayed with relatives in Německý Brod (now Havlíčkův Brod). In December Joseph and Margaret traveled to Paris and then London where, in January 1939, they boarded SS President Harrison for New York. They arrived in the United States in February and settled in Indiana. Olga Weiss soon moved to Prague, was transported to Theresienstadt on January 30, 1942, deported to Izbica on March 17, 1942, and did not survive. Margaret’s mother, Mathilde Goldstein (1870-1942) had remained in Vienna and was deported to Theresienstadt on July 14, 1942, and to Treblinka on September 21, 1942, where she was killed. Joseph Weiss’s cousin Georg Weisz emigrated to the Dominican Republic where he died of illness on September 28, 1942. Mathilde Goldstein’s niece, Bertha Reichmann (1897-1942), was deported from Vienna on October 5, 1942 to Maly Trostinec where she died October 9th, 1942. Arnošt (Ernst) Pachner (1872-1942) and Elsa Pachner (1879-1942) (Olga Weiss brother-in-law and sister) lived in Německý Brod until 1939 when they were forced to move to Prague. They were transported to Theresienstadt on May 15, 1942, then to Treblinka on October 19, 1942, where they are believed to have been killed immediately. Arnošt’s brother Artur Pachner (1874-1944) and his wife Gabriela (Ella) Pachner (1881-1944) were transported to Theresienstadt on December 5, 1942, and then deported to Auschwitz on December 18, 1943. Artur died there in January 1944 and Ella was killed a few months later. Another relative, Hermine Brodheim (1883-1942), was deported from Vienna to Maly Trostinec on August 31, 1942 and was killed on September 4th, 1942. 

Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers