Wiener Straße 58 (laid in 2014)
Johann Braun
The 100th Stolperstein!
Johann Braun, born on 16 August 1902 in Lackenbach, employee,
Wife Maria Braun, née Schmiedl (*1907) and
Son Josef (*1935)
The family was expelled to Vienna. Possibly imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp in 1939; on 20 October 1939 deported to Nisko. Died on 22 March 1940. The fate of his wife and son is unknown.
In 1914, Moritz Mose Braun, his wife Maria, and their children Johann (*1902) and Helene (*1904) moved from Lackenbach to Wiener Neustadt, Kurze Gasse 9. Father Moritz was a peddler/trader; daughter Helene was a clerk. In 1921 the family moved to Deutschgasse 19. Daughter Helene left for Germany in 1927. Father Moritz died in 1935 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Wiener Neustadt.
Johann Braun trained as a locksmith, worked as an employee, and spent some months in Vienna in 1924 and 1925, probably for work. He married Maria Schmiedl (*1907), who bore him a son, Josef, on 19 August 1935. The boy was baptized Catholic. Johann and Maria kept their religious identity. In 1936 the family of three moved from Deutschgasse to Wiener Straße 58.
Although an official deregistration was only recorded for 8 August 1939, and Johann Braun with his wife and son were said to have moved to Vienna, Molkereistraße 4/4, it is quite possible that the family had already been expelled in November 1938. Johann Braun was likely imprisoned in Dachau in 1939. It is certain that on 20 October 1939 he was deported to Nisko and died on 22 March 1940.
Nisko: From 18 to 26 October 1939, Adolf Eichmann, then head of the “Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague,” organized six transports to Nisko. Deportees were supposed to build one large concentration camp for all Jews and “unreliable elements” from the German Reich, though most were not capable of such work. An unknown number of these forced laborers died of hunger and cold. Plans for a comprehensive “resettlement” of Jews from Germany and occupied eastern Europe were not abandoned, just postponed.
Anton Blaha, after “Lebenslinien” by Werner Sulzgruber, wikipedia.org/Nisko