us-005578-irn518486-irn44572
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has or had some members with language: deu
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/2006-12-31
history: Renee Konstandt was born on August 20, 1927, in Vienna, Austria. Her father, Hugo, was born February 1, 1890, in Kostel, Czechoslovakia; her mother, Olga Braun, was born April 7, 1899, in Knittelfeld-Styer, near Graz, Austria. She had an older brother, Raoul, who was born on May 5, 1921, also in Vienna. Her father owned a chain of dry goods and linen stores around Austria. Renee enjoyed a pleasant, comfortable childhood, and was spoiled by her older brother. On March 12, 1938, German troops marched into Austria and annexed the country. Anti-Jewish legislation was soon enacted to exclude Jews from participation in cultural, economic, and social life. The November 1938 Kristallnacht [Night of Broken Glass] pogrom was particularly brutal in Austria. Most of the synagogues in Vienna were destroyed and Jewish businesses were vandalized. Thousands of Jews were arrested and deported to concentration camps. Her father was arrested in May 1938 and deported to Dachau concentration camp, but was released in December 1939. In January 1941, he was arrested again by the Gestapo and held in jail in Vienna for a month before being released. That October, both of Renee’s parents were deported to the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland. Due to a clerical error, Renee and her brother remained in Vienna. Raoul was taken briefly to a work camp outside of Vienna in October 1942, but soon returned. The siblings were deported in January 1943 to Theresienstadt (Terezin) in the former Czechoslovakia. Renee first worked with infants and then was transferred to a small farm detail that worked outside the ghetto. Because of the constant hunger, she and the other workers would often try to smuggle food in under their clothes, despite the body searches and frequent beatings. She occasionally saw her brother, who worked as a tailor, and he would sneak her bread, telling her that he got extra. They remained there until May 1944, when they were transferred to Auschwitz, where they lost contact with each o…
title: Renée Lang papers
record resource structure: The Renée Lang papers are arranged as three series: I. Biographical Materials, 1900-1953, II: Correspondence, 1942-1961, and III. Restitution Paperwork, circa 2006
scope and content: The Renée Lang papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, and photocopies of restitution paperwork documenting Renée Konstandt Lang’s family, their experiences in Austria and in various concentration camps after the Anschluss, the deaths of Lang’s parents and brother in Łódź, Dachau, Schwarzenberg, and possibly Auschwitz and Lang’s efforts to obtain restitution. Biographical materials document the lives of Hugo, Olga, and Raoul Konstandt and Renée Lang and include birth certificates, marriage certificates, citizenship records, passports, certificates of deportation, and a membership card for the Union of Concentration Camp Prisoners. Correspondence includes two 1942 postcards between Renée and her parents in the Łódź ghetto, a 1946 telegram from a friend of her parents, and two 1961 letters regarding the possibility of restitution. Restitution paperwork includes photocopies of documents regarding Jewish property taxes paid by her parents and her father’s imprisonment at Dachau in 1938 and 1939.
record resource extent: folders 6
is or was included in: us-005578-irn518486
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history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1900-01-01
has or had some members with language: eng
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has or had holder: us-005578
identifier: irn44572