Gertrud Lemberger (Monath)
| Born: |
06-07-1914 |
| Faculty: |
Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Gertrud LEMBERGER (married MONATH), born on June 7th, 1914 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), was the daughter of Siegfried Lemberger (norn on May 8th, 1884, merchant and film producer) and his wife Ella nee Soyka (born on February 21st, 1891 in Vienna). The family lived in Vienna 7th district, Neubaugasse 23/16.
During her studies Gertrud Lemberger met her later husband Josef (later José) Monath (1913-2003), who was able to finish his law studies at the University of Vienna in 1937 and began to work in the office of his father just before the "Anschluss" 1938.
Gertrud Lemberger was finally enrolled in spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 5th year of her studies. Her later brother-in-law,
Eugen (Hans) Monath (1915-2002), who studied at the Medical School, too, was also expelled from the University of Vienna in 1938.
Gertrud Lemberger and Josef Monath married just in 1938 in the "Seitenstettener Tempel" in Vienna. After they received their emigration papers the couple first travelled to Triest. There they took a ship to Buenos Aires/Argentinia, where they arrived on August 22nd, 1938.
Her parents Siegfried and Ella Lemberger were later deported to the concentration campus Auschwitz, where they were murdered in 1942.
In Buenos Aires Gertrud Monath worked as a nurse in a sanatorium, José Monath first as an unskilled worker, later as an accountant. He never again was able to work as a lawyer.
In 1947 their son Thomas was born.
Gertrud Monath later worked for a professional journal publishing house.
She died in February 1996 in Buenos Aires.
Lit. information from Gert Tschögl, Burgenländische Forschungsgesellschaft, Eisenstadt 2015; Gert TSCHÖGL, Barbara TOBLER, Alfred LANG, Hg., Vertrieben. Erinnerungen burgenländischer Juden und Jüdinnen, Wien 2004, 165-170; Josef KLAMPFER, Das Eisenstädter Ghetto. (=Burgenländisches Landesarchiv, Hg., Burgenländische Forschungen, Heft 51), Eisenstadt 1966; Video-Interview by Gert Tschögl with José Monath, Buenos Aires 2001 (partly online available); short portrait of José Monath on the Website of the "Burgenländische Forschungsgesellschaft"; Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW): Austrian Victims of the Holocaust [Ella Lemberger]; geni.com.
Katharina Kniefacz
