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Series 1: Children’s work, circa 1939-1941 File 1: Essays, poems, and letters, circa 1939-1940 File 2: Essays and poems, circa 1941 File 3: Holidays, circa 1939 File 4: Letters, 1940-1941 File 5: Math and dictations, 1941 File 6: Student notebooks, 1939-1940 (2 folders) File 7: Time and clocks, circa 1941 Series 2: Lesson plans, photographs, receipts, and other material, circa 1939-1941 File 1: Lesson plans and student lists, 1941 File 2: Photographs, circa 1939-1940 File 3: Receipts, circa 1939-1940 File 4: Other material, circa 1939-1941
Gertrude Winter papers
Gertrude (Gertrud) Winter (1905-1944) was born February 28, 1905. She was a first- and second-grade teacher at the"Volksschule der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien" the Jewish community elementary school in Castellezgasse in Vienna. The school was forced to close in the summer of 1941. Winter was deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt on September 24, 1942. She was deported to Auschwitz Birkenau killing center on October 23, 1944 and murdered upon arrival. The fates of the following student of Gertrude Winter have been traced: Elisabeth Bäcker: October 9, 1942, Theresienstadt; October 4, 1944, Auschwitz Erika Bloch: April 27, 1942, Wlodawa [Sobibor] Ilse Breuer: June 6, 1942, Izbica [Belzec] Ruth Cucilower: October 23, 1941, Litzmannstadt (Lodz) [Chelmno, Auschwitz] Lia Dalfen: October 9, 1942, Theresienstadt; October 28, 1944, Auschwitz Rita Dawid: Sept. 10, 1942, Theresienstadt; May 16, 1944, Auschwitz Sonja Deutsch: March 5, 1941, Modliborzyce (Lublin) [Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka] Elisabeth Eckstein: Sept. 14, 1942, Maly Trostinec Herta Engelberg: June 2, 1942, Maly Trostinec Miriam Fraenkel: October 9, 1942, Theresienstadt; October 19, 1944, Auschwitz Hella Geller: February 6, 1942, Riga Herta Griffel: SURVIVED Gitta Haber: May 12, 1942, Izbica [Belzec] Suse Kellmann: March 5, 1941, Modliborzyce (Lublin) [Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka] Olga Langer: June 9, 1942, Maly Trostinec Gitta Mandelbaum: October 1, 1942, Theresienstadt; October 4, 1944, Auschwitz Gerda Pisk: June 5, 1942, Izbica [Belzec] Berta Plawes: October 5, 1942, Maly Trostinec Susi Schwager: Sept. 24, 1942, Theresienstadt; October 4, 1944, Auschwitz Ruth Sternlieb: October 23, 1941, Litzmannstadt (Lodz) [Chelmno, Auschwitz] Selma Streigold: October 1, 1942, Theresienstadt; May 18, 1944, Auschwitz Renee Tauber: May 27, 1942, Maly Trostinec Else Traube: October 1, 1942, Theresienstadt; January 23, 1943, Auschwitz Susanne Walter: June 9, 1942, Maly Trostinec Ruth Weitzner: Dec. 12, 1941, Riga Eva Wellisch: October 1, 1942, Theresienstadt; October 4, 1944, Auschwitz Klara Zimet: April 27, 1942, Wlodawa [Sobibor] The fates of the following student of Gertrude Winter are unknown: Hilde Gerstl, Elisabeth (Lisl) Goldmann, Ruth Löwentag, Alize Nichtburg, Eva Piltschik, Anni Schwatz, and Franzi Winter
The Gertrude Winter papers include children’s work, lesson plans, student lists, photographs, and receipts documenting Winter’s work as a first- and second-grade teacher at the Jewish community elementary school in Vienna as well as the students she taught. Winter likely gathered the children’s work, lesson plans, and photographs and gave them to a neighbor for safekeeping after the school was forcibly closed in 1941 and before her deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942. Children’s work includes essays, poems, letters, drawings, math problems, and dictations in notebooks or on loose sheets of paper. Photographs depict Winter and her students. Receipts document supply and travel expenses and are stamped “Rechnungskontrolle d. Israel. Kultusgem. Wien.” Some of the children represented in the collection include Breuer, Ilse; Cucilower, Ruth; Dalfen, Lia; Dawid, Ritta; Deutsch, Sonja; Eckstein, Elisabeth; Engel, Gertrude; Engelberg, Herta; Engler, Sophie; Färber, Eva; Frankel, Mirjam; Friedmann, Edith; Geller, Hella; Gerstl, Hilda; Goldmann, Lisl; Grüner, Helle; Grunseid, Alfred; Haber, Gitta; Jungleib, Lisl; Kellmann, Suse; Konisgberg, Ruth; Kurzbauer, Sonja; Lange, Sophie; Länger, Olga; Löwenthal, Ruth; Mandelbaum, Gitta; Piltschik, Evi; Preminger, Edith; Ratz, Anitta; Ringel, Renee; Roth, Rita; Rübner, Jenny; Schagel, Anny; Schwager, Susi; Springer, Gerti; Steiner, Käthe; Steiner, Ruth; Sternlieb, Ruth; Streigold, Selma; Tauber, Renee; Tisk, Gerda; Traube, Else; Walter, Susanne; Weinsaft, Eva; and Weitzner, Ruth. Most of the children were deported from Vienna between 1941 and 1944. Two known survivors are Herta Griffel (later Baitch) and Ruth Weiner. Dorit Deutsch is also believed to have survived.