Robert and Louise Brunner papers

Robert and Louise Brunner papers 

Robert Brunner (1901-1969) was born in Vienna to Richard and Hermine Brunner. He attended trade school and started his own business selling books. At the beginning of the war Robert was questioned by the Gestapo and went into hiding at a beekeeping school while arrangements were made to flee with his fiancée, Louise Koblitz. Some of his family stayed in Vienna while other fled to various countries. His father passed away in 1934 and his mother was deported to Kielce in 1941. Robert’s cousins, Leo Lederer and Fritz Fink, survived the war by fleeing to the United States and Argentina. Louise Brunner (1909-1992) was born in Vienna to Julius Koblitz and Agatha Delicat. Louise fled to France with her fiancée, Robert Brunner, in 1938 where they worked until they were able to obtain visas to the United States in 1939. They settled in New York, were married, and had a son, Thomas Brunner, in 1945. Many of Louise’s family members stayed in Vienna. Her father passed away in 1922 and her mother, bother Rudolf, niece Erika, nephews Heinz and Felix, and Uncles Oskar and Arthur were deported to Wlodawa in 1942 

Robert and Louise Brunner papers