Neunkirchner Straße 35 (laid in 2011)
The Beinhacker Family
From the Opole Ghetto to the extermination camp.
Arnold Beinhacker, born on October 15, 1892, in Lackenbach, merchant.
Margarete „Mina“ Beinhacker, née Leitner, born on October 17, 1903, in Lackenbach.
Son Eugen Beinhacker, born 1936 in Wiener Neustadt.
Arnold was deported to Nisko on October 20, 1939, but was able to return. The family was deported on February 15, 1941, to the ghetto in Opole and murdered after its dissolution in 1942 in the extermination camp Belzec or Sobibór.
Arnold Beinhacker moved to Wiener Neustadt, Promenade 5, in May 1927. In 1935, he married Margarete „Mina“ Leitner and moved to Neunkirchner Straße 35. About a year after the birth of their son, they moved one house down to Neunkirchner Straße 33. Arnold Beinhacker ran his business at Industriegasse 20, where he traded in wood and coal.
In mid-May 1938, Arnold Beinhacker applied for exit permits for himself and his family to North America or Palestine. In late summer 1938, the family had to look for new accommodation and moved into a sublet at Gymelsdorferstraße 30. As of October 20, 1938, the family was officially deregistered to Vienna.
Arnold no longer had any income, as he had been forced to close his business. On October 20, 1939, Arnold Beinhacker was sent to Nisko, but was later transported back to Vienna, where he was once again able to live with his wife and son.
On February 15, 1941, the family was deported from Vienna’s Aspangbahnhof to Opole, where, in 1942, the ghetto was dissolved and the Jewish population—including the entire Beinhacker family—was sent either in March 1942 to the extermination camp Belzec or in May or October 1942 to Sobibór. All three were murdered.
Anton Blaha according to “Lebenslinien” by Werner Sulzgruber
Image: Stolpersteine, 2011 (© Harald Haberstroh)