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Fritz Grünbaum - Gedenktafel

Wollzeile 36, Innere Stadt (1010), Vienna

The record

Type
Commemorative plaque (Gedenktafel)
Material
Metall (Nirosta), Glas
Plaque made
1955
Epoch
Nach 1945
Address
Wollzeile 36
Location
Kabarett "Simpl"
District
Innere Stadt (1010)
City
Vienna (Wien)
Country
Austria
Coordinates
48.20766, 16.37847
Object number
96963

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1813 map "Sect. 161. Theil von Oestreich = Partie d'Autriche" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1813 · Sect. 161. Theil von Oestreich = Partie d'Autriche (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1837 · I, II, III, IV Sections. Umgebung von Wien. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1843 · (With directional lighting) Neuester Plan von Wien und Dessen 34 Vorstaedten in Relief. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1866 · Plan der Haupt-u. Residenz Stadt Wein mit der neuen Bezirkseintheilung, Strassenbenennung… (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1877 · Wein. (Nieder-Osterreich) (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)

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The City of Vienna's record

In diesem Haus wirkte / der grosse Künstler / Fritz Grünbaum / 7.4.1880-14.1.1941 / er war ein guter Österreicher / und hat für dieses Bekenntnis / im Konzentrationslager / den Tod gefunden. / Er wollte in seiner / Menschenliebe / nicht an das Grauen glauben / dem er dann selbst zum Opfer fiel. /
KZ. Gemeinschaft Dachau / Lagergemeinschaft Buchenwald

Fritz Grünbaum war Schriftsteller und Künstler im Wiener Kabarett "Simpl". Als Betroffener der Nürnberger Rassengesetze wurde er in die KZ Buchenwald und Dachau deportiert, wo er an den Folgen von Mißhandlungen, Hunger und Erschöpfung starb.Seine Urne wurde 1941 auf dem alten jüdischen Friedhof (Zentralfriedhof) beigesetzt.

English translation

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In this house worked / the great artist / Fritz Grünbaum / 7.4.1880-14.1.1941 / he was a good Austrian / and for this conviction found death / in a concentration camp. / In his / humanity / he did not want to believe in the horror / to which he himself then fell victim. /
KZ. Dachau Community / Buchenwald Camp Community

Fritz Grünbaum was a writer and artist at the Viennese cabaret "Simpl". As a person affected by the Nuremberg Racial Laws, he was deported to the KZ Buchenwald and Dachau, where he died of the consequences of maltreatment, hunger and exhaustion. His urn was interred in 1941 in the old Jewish cemetery (Zentralfriedhof).

Other plaques nearby

Other plaques in the City's record within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Datenquelle: Stadt Wien – data.wien.gv.at (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0). Inscriptions and notes are reproduced unchanged. Stadt Wien · CC BY 4.0
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