Terese Goldstein

Born 11.1.1908 in Jerusalem / Jeruschalajim
Died 1945 in Mauthausen

Biography

Terese Goldstein was born as Dina Reisel Kohn, the eldest daughter of Shmuel Kohn and Hinda, nee Kohn.

Her father Shmuel was born in about 1885 in the village of Vásárút which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and after its fall was known in the Slovak name of Trhová Hradská. Shmuel is the son of Rabbi Yeruham Fischel Kohn and Malka Esther, nee Ibschitz, who came from Hungary.

Hinda, Terese's mother, was born in Jerusalem, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). Her father is Yehuda Kohn, a descendant of one of the well-known and large families in the old Jewish community of Jerusalem, whose family is originally from Hungary. Her mother is Esther Malka Makovki, whose family comes from Międzyrzec Podlaski, Poland.

Dina Reisel was born in Jerusalem on 11 January 1908. After her, her sister Lea Fradel was born on 9 May 1912, and her young sister Chaya on 30 September 1914. During World War I, the family moved to Istanbul, possibly following the deportation of people with foreign citizenship by the Ottoman authorities. While in Istanbul, the hotel where they were staying caught fire. While fleeing the hotel, Hinda fell down the stairs, was fatally injured, and died a few days later at the age of 27 and in her 9th month of pregnancy. After the death of his wife, Shmuel Kohn married Miriam Sheindel Glazer.

The family whereabouts in the following years are not known for sure, but in 1944 Shmuel Kohn, his wife Miriam Sheindel (then called Sarolta) and the youngest daughter Chaya (Helena) lived in Budapest, Hungary, at 10 Dob Street. Terese married Sandor (Sander) Goldstein, and the two lived on Eötvös Street number 37 in Budapest. Their sister Lea (Polak) was living in Jerusalem at the time.

In March 1944, Nazi Germany took over Hungary, and decrees began against the Jews. Terese and her family moved in together into a sheltered house, under the auspices of a foreign embassy, at Szent István Park number 43. In November 1944, Terese was deported from Budapest, and since then her connection with the rest of her family has been lost. She was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. On 15 January 1945, she was sent from there to the Venusberg camp, a subcamp of Flossenbürg in eastern Germany, near the Czech border. In this camp, Terese received the inmate number 61904. The inmates of the camp worked in a Junkers Company factory, where parts of military aircraft were manufactured. On 14 April 1945, as the Red Army was approaching, Venusberg camp was evacuated. The inmates were put on a train with cattle cars, and after two weeks of wandering, on 29 April 1945, they arrived at the Mauthausen camp. At this point, Terese's traces were lost: she perished on the way to Mauthausen, or in the camp itself, at the age of 37.

Shmuel, Terese's father, his wife Sarolta and her sister Helena survived the war, and on 13 November 1946, arrived in Palestine aboard the ship "Transylvania". In the following years, the family tried to locate Terese and find out what happened to her, but to no avail.

Amir Livnat, family member

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