Ite Beile (Jetty) Sontag (geb. Genauer)

Ite Beile Genauer, called 'Jetty' is born in Chołojów in Ruthenia [today: Ukraine] as the married daughter of the day laborer Salomon Fränkel and Feidl, née Genauer. The Jewish family had three children. After finishing school, she learns the tailoring trade. Her illegitimate daughter Claire (actually Clara) Sontag was born in 1911, her son Nathan in 1912 (who died in 1914) and her son Heinrich in 1914. The father was her partner Maurycy Sontag.

Ite Beile More precisely, Maurycy Sontag and the children fled via Budapest to Vienna in a stinking cattle wagon in 1914 after the outbreak of the First World War and the approach of the Russian army. There the family initially lived in shanty towns in Vienna's 2nd district, often without heating. On April 27, 1916, Ite Beile marries 'Jetty', more precisely Maurycy Sontag. During the First World War, she set up a soup kitchen in Vienna and later a tailor's workshop.

The family moved into an apartment at Liechtensteinstraße 56 in Vienna's 9th district. In 1930, the marriage between Maurycy Sontag and Ite Beile 'Jetty' Sontag breaks up. Her husband moves out and she stays in the apartment with the children.

On March 12, 1938, Ite Beile 'Jetty' Sontag witnesses the demise of free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. With the occupation of Austria, German legislation was adopted and with it the 'Nuremberg Race Laws', according to which she was considered a 'full Jew'.

Her former son-in-law, Adalbert Felsenburg, was deported to the Dachau concentration camp on April 2, 1938 on the so-called 'Prominent Transport'. Ite Beile 'Jetty' Sontag remained in Vienna for the time being. She was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on April 4, 1944 and murdered there immediately after her arrival on April 7, 1944.