Ernst Schafer 1898 - 1942
Born 25.3.1898 in Wien
Died 28.9.1942 in Mauthausen
Biography
The author Ernst Schafer lived at 14 Bergsteiggasse in Vienna’s Hernals district. As a Jew he was persecuted by the National Socialist regime of terror on racist grounds, was imprisoned at Vienna’s regional court from May 1941 to August 1942, and subsequently in Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was murdered.
Peter Ulrich Lehner
Sources:
Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW), DÖW 20100/10102.
Translation into English: Joanna White