Ottla, Kafka's sister

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Ottla, Kafka's sister

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Post by chalutzim » 06 Oct 2003, 13:49

Tomorrow, 60 years ago:
[...] Franz's dad and mom lived until 1931 and 1934, respecively. They were buried in the same plot he was.

His sisters did not meet so kind a fate. During World War II, Elli and Valli and their families were shipped off to the Lodz ghetto, and apparently died in the uprisings there or were sent to death camps. Ottla separated from her Gentile husband, Josef David, since she felt she had no right to avoid the suffering of her people, and was sent [1942] to the Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp in northwestern Bohemia. She volunteered, in 1943, to help accompany a trainload of children somewhere, which turned out to be Auschwitz. Here's the entry in Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945 by Danuta Czech:

7 October [1943] - 1,260 Jewish children and their 53 care givers are transferred from Theresienstadt in an RSHA transport. They are killed the same day in the gas chambers.
Ottla:

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http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vermee ... graphy.htm

All three Kafka's sisters (the two others at Lodz) were murdered by the Germans:

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Post by walterkaschner » 07 Oct 2003, 11:49

An extremely moving post! Thank you for the pictures Chalutzim!

Regards. Kaschner


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Post by chalutzim » 07 Oct 2003, 12:50

walterkaschner wrote:An extremely moving post! Thank you for the pictures Chalutzim!

Regards. Kaschner
You're quite welcome, Kaschner. Regards. :)

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Post by Witch-King of Angmar » 14 Oct 2003, 22:26

Strangely(?) the Allies treated afterwards the perpetrators much like their brother had written in Der Prozess("The Trial").

Does this count as "moral revenge"?

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Re: Ottla, Kafka's sister

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Post by PF » 17 Apr 2014, 19:38

Postscript
Link to fate of Kaska sisters in Shoah
http://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/zwoje43/text16p.htm

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