Museumstraße

Downtown

November 2008 © Thomas Kleissl

6, Museumstraße

Dr. Eduard Fuchs lived with his wife Sara and their daughter Wally at 6, Museumstraße, where they also had a watch and jewellery shop. In the night a group of people forced their way into the flat and injured Eduard Fuchs. (I)

Stadtarchiv Fuchs Museumstrasse

Museumstraße 6 – Jewellery shop Leopold Fuchs, 1938 (a)


 

November 2008 © Thomas Kleissl

8, Museumstraße

The family of Simon and Sofie Graubart, née Königsbacher, lived on the third floor of the house at 8, Museumstraße, which they purchased in 1910, with their sons Siegfried, Alfred, and Richard. Simon Graubart’s “First Viennese Hat and Footwear Branch of S.J. Graubart” was also located there. The “Graubart Shoe Store” was the largest in Tyrol and unique in its specially trained orthopedic staff. While Sofie Graubart died of heart failure in November 1928, her husband Simon lived alone in the apartment until his death in February 1936. He was involved in the establishment of the Israelite Cultural Community in Innsbruck and served as a religious councilor there.

Fanny Graubart, née Lang, was the mother of the oldest son, Siegfried, and died in Meran in 1892. Siegfried Graubart served as a soldier in the First World War in the Regiment of the 1st Tyrolean Kaiserjäger and was taken prisoner of war in Russia. He had been living in Vienna since 1927, where he married Oda Soloweitschik and founded the “PAGA – Shoe Sales Company” together with Friedrich Pasch. The couple fled to London in the autumn of 1938 with their 8-year-old son Michael.

Alfred Graubart, a wounded soldier of the First World War, was taken prisoner by Italy. He was married to Maria “Mimi” Herold and lived with their son Erich at 8, Haydnplatz in Innsbruck, where he was severely injured during the pogrom night. He fled to the United States via England and returned to Austria in 1960, where he died on March 23, 1980, in Vienna.

Richard Graubart was the youngest son and had to enlist as a soldier in the First World War at the age of seventeen. He lived with his wife Margarethe and daughter Vera Evelyne at 5, Gänsbacherstraße, where he was murdered during the pogrom night. Margarethe returned to Innsbruck for a few years after the war.

After the Anschluss in March 1938, most Jewish businesses were vandalized. In the autumn of 1938, the shoe store owned by the brothers Alfred and Richard was taken over by the National Socialists Rudolf Mages and Karl Kastner, and later acquired by Hans Mariacher. A transfer of ownership to Maria Graubart, who was an “Aryan” left in Innsbruck, was prevented by the Aryanization office.

The sisters-in-law Maria and Margarethe Graubart litigated for the inheritance after the war. In 1952, the “Graubart Shoe Store” was dissolved and sold to a shoe retail chain. (II)

Stadtarchiv Graubart Museumstrasse

8, Museumstraße – Shoeshop Graubart, 1938 (b)


update 23.10.2023

Translation:

(I) Gerhard Buzas

(II) Translated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Literature:

Christoph W. Bauer < Graubart Boulevard > Haymon Verlag Innsbruck-Wien 2008

Michael Gehler < Spontaner Ausdruck des “Volkszorns”?, Neue Aspekte zum Innsbrucker Judenpogrom vom 9./10. November 1938 > in: Zeitgeschichte, 18.Jahr, Okt.1990-Dez.1991, Heft 1-12 

Horst Schreiber < Jüdische Geschäfte in Innsbruck – Eine Spurensuche > Projekt des Abendgymnasiums Innsbruck; Tiroler Studien zu Geschichte und Politik 1, Michael-Gaismair-Gesellschaft (Hg.) , StudienVerlag 2001, S 55-56 

References:

1. http://www.hohenemsgenealogie.at/gen/getperson.php?personID=I2456&tree=Hohenems – last visit 07.10.2014

Picture credits:

(a, b) © Stadtarchiv / Stadtmuseum Innsbruck

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