Marco Feingold

Marko M. Feingold (* 28. May 1913 in Besztercebánya/Neusohl, Austria-Hungary, today Banská Bystrica, Slovakia) is the president of the Jewish community in Salzburg, Austria and is in charge of Salzburg's synagogue.

Marco Feingold was growing up in Leopoldstadt, Vienna. After he had trained in business, he found a work in Vienna, got unemployed and was as traveller with his brother Ernst in Italy. In 1938 he was arrested in Vienna during a short visit. At first he escaped to Prague, was expelled to Poland and turned back to Prague with false papers. In 1939 he was arrested again and deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz. He was also punished in the concentration camps Neuengamme and Dachau and came to the concentration camp Buchenwald in 1941, where he stayed until his rescue in 1945. He moved to Salzburg by chance, where he is living now. Between 1945 and 1948 he helped Jewish survivors who were living in DP-camps in Salzburg and organised with the Jewish refugee organisation Bricha the immigration of Jews from middle- and eastern Europe to Palästina. In 1948 he has got the owner of a fashion store.

Between 1946 and 1947 Feingold was for a short time president of the Jewish community in Salzburg. Just after his retirement in 1977 he get at first vice president and finally in 1979 president of the Jewish community again. .^[1] Since his retirement he is giving a lot of lectures about his time in concentration camps, the holocaust and the Judaism.^[2]

Sources

1. ^ Marko M. Feingold: Wer einmal gestorben ist, dem tut nichts mehr weh. Eine Überlebensgeschichte. Wien 2000. S. 277–279
2. ^ Pressemitteilung Ehrenbürgerschaft für Hofrat Marko M. Feingold vom 18. Januar 2008 auf stadt-salzburg.at

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