Wiener Straße 90 (verlegt 2013)
Emanuel und Theresia Koppel
Shoah and “euthanasia”
Emanuel Koppel, born on 8 March 1881 in Wiesen, salesman.
Therese Koppel, née Gross, born on 15 January 1892 in Gjör.
Children: Alfred, born in 1908; Edith, born in 1912; Helene, born in 1914.
Emanuel and Therese were killed in Zagreb after fleeing to Yugoslavia. Their son Alfred died in the Mauer-Öhling mental and care institution. The two daughters were able to emigrate.
Emanuel Koppel came to Wiener Neustadt with his family in 1925 and lived at Wiener Straße 90 until 1938.
Son Alfred had a mental disability and was transferred in 1932 to the Mauer-Öhling mental and care institution, where he died shortly before the official start of Nazi adult “euthanasia” in the institution from “pulmonary tuberculosis” — possibly a false diagnosis intended to conceal the real cause of death.
The two daughters were able to leave the country. Daughter Helene emigrated to Australia, and daughter Edith survived in Palestine.
Emanuel Koppel and his wife were recorded as having “emigrated to Yugoslavia” on 15 February 1939. They fled to Brčko and Zagreb and died there in 1941.
Anton Blaha, based on Lebenslinien by Werner Sulzgruber.