Gröhrmühlgasse 31 (laid 2011, Friedrich 2018)

The Buxbaum Family

Without financial means, emigration was unthinkable.

Julius Buxbaum, born April 20, 1894, in Mattersdorf (Mattersburg),
Grete Buxbaum, née Bohenszky, born February 18, 1895, in Deutschkreuz,
Max Buxbaum, born December 22, 1927, in Wiener Neustadt, student,
Julie Buxbaum, born December 21, 1929, in Wiener Neustadt, student,
Friedrich Buxbaum, born June 23, 1932, in Wiener Neustadt.
The family was deported to the ghetto in Lodz (Litzmannstadt, Poland) on November 2, 1941, where Julius Buxbaum died. The mother and three children were murdered in the Chelmno extermination camp.

In the 1920s, Julius Buxbaum worked – with a brief interruption – as a cellar assistant and later as a cellar master in Wiener Neustadt. It is not verifiable in which of the local wine production or wine trading companies he was employed, but it could have been one of the approximately eight Jewish firms, such as Mandl, Reininger, or Ungar.

In 1927, Julius Buxbaum married Margarete Bohenszky and lived with her from then on at Gröhrmühlgasse 31. In the same year, she bore him a son, Max. Daughter Julie followed in 1929, and son Friedrich in 1932. During these years, Julius Buxbaum worked as a sales representative to support his family.

The children Max and Julie soon attended elementary school: Max the „Jubiläumsschule-Knaben-Volksschule“ (Jubilee School for Boys) and Julie the „Jubiläumsschule-Mädchen-Volksschule“ (Jubilee School for Girls) on Baumkirchnerring. In 1938, however, the children were forbidden from attending school further for racist reasons.

Julius Buxbaum, who had been unemployed even before the „Anschluss“ in 1938, now found no way to obtain employment and remained without any income. After the impoverished Buxbaum family also lost their rented apartment in Wiener Neustadt, they had to leave the city and moved to Vienna. Without financial means, emigration had become unthinkable, and so the parents and their children were, as it were, trapped.

On November 2, 1941, the entire family was deported to Lodz in Poland. In 1942, Julius Buxbaum died there in the Jewish ghetto. Margarete Buxbaum and her children were transported to Chelmno and murdered there in September 1942.

After the murder of the son Friedrich, together with his family, was confirmed, a Stolperstein was also laid for him in 2018. This reunited the family, as it were.

Werner Sulzgruber

The 4 memorial stones for the Buxbaum family are „Stolpersteine of the BRG Gröhrmühlgasse“ – i.e. „Stolpersteine“ financed by parents, students and teachers of the BRG (secondary school)

The Jewish Buxbaum family was selected as victims of National Socialism for the project „Stolpersteine for Wiener Neustadt“ because they had lived near today’s school location (Gröhrmühlgasse 27).