Fischauergasse 17 / Drehergasse 1 (laid 2014, Rosa 2018)
Bianka Wilder, Rosa Wilder
As Jews, no chance to survive
Rosa Wilder, born on 18 May 1877, widow of a doctor.
Daughter Bianka Wilder, born on 2 January 1910 in Wiener Neustadt, student, unmarried, Jewish. Son Dr. Alfred Wilder, born in 1906, lawyer, and another daughter, Elfriede, born in 1915, kindergarten teacher.
Bianka Wilder was murdered in Hartheim on 12 July 1940. Her mother Rosa was deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Łódź) on 23 October 1941 and died there. Son Alfred fell at the front, and only daughter Elfriede survived in exile in the United States.
The surviving records show that after a brief stay in the psychiatric clinic of the Vienna General Hospital, Bianka Wilder was admitted on 22 November 1932 to the “Am Steinhof” mental and care institution and transferred already on 24 November 1932 to the Mauer-Öhling institution.
The discharge entry in the registry book bears the stamp: “Transferred to the Niedernhart-Linz mental and care institution on 12 July 1940” — the usual cover designation in 1940 for deportation to Hartheim, where she was murdered by carbon monoxide gas together with 62 other patients from Mauer-Öhling.
There are no other records apart from these entries in the registry books. What is certain is that with the Anschluss to the German Reich, Bianka Wilder had no chance of survival. It was enough to be diagnosed as “Jewish.”
In 2018 a Stolperstein was also laid for Bianka Wilder’s mother, Rosa Wilder. After Kristallnacht she, like almost all Jewish residents of Wiener Neustadt, was taken to Vienna. On 23 October 1941 she was deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Łódź), where she did not survive. Mother and daughter were thus symbolically reunited by the two Stolpersteine.
Anton Blaha