Dr. Paul Herzog
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Paul Herzog was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of the merchant Emil Elkan Herzog and his wife Klara, née Handl. Paul Herzog had four other brothers and a sister in his Jewish family. After elementary school, he attended the k.k. Erzherzog Rainergymnsaium in Vienna's 5th district [today: Rainergymnasium], where he graduated on July 11, 1905. In the same year, he enrolled in law at the University of Vienna and was awarded a doctorate in law in 1909.
After the defeat of Austria-Hungary, the break-up of the dual monarchy and the expulsion of the House of Habsburg, Paul Herzog married the Catholic Karoline Leopoldine Manhardt in 1922 (she herself used her middle name as her main name). Their son Peter was born in 1925 and daughter Renate in 1931.
On November 10, 1938, Paul Herzog is arrested by the Gestapo in the course of the Jewish pogrom, the so-called 'Reichskristallnacht', and deported to the Dachau concentration camp on November 15, 1938.
On January 2, 1939, Paul Herzog emigrated from Vienna to Sluis in the Netherlands. His wife and two children tried to join him six months later, but were refused entry at the Dutch border. However, she manages to get to a fishing village in Belgium near the Dutch border, where her husband also joins her.
With the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the family moves to Bruges in Belgium, where the children attend school. At the start of the German Wehrmacht's 18-day campaign in the West on May 10, 1940, the family fled to France, where they were driven directly to the front.
After the armistice between France and Germany on June 22, 1940, the family was picked up by the German field police. Leopoldine, Peter and Renate Herzog are sent back to Vienna, Paul Herzog to a labor camp in Dinant in Belgium, where he works as a farm worker.
In Vienna, Peter Herzog falls ill with pulmonary tuberculosis and Renate Herzog is also very often ill. Leopoldine Herzog tries in vain to obtain an entry permit to Belgium so that she and her family can be close to her husband. The German authorities consistently refused every application.
On October 19, 1942, Paul Herzog was taken to a collection camp in Mechelen in Belgium and deported to the KZ Auschwitz
Leopoldine, Peter and Renate Herzog experience the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in Vienna in April and May 1945. Peter Herzog is hospitalized and undergoing treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis, Renate Herzog suffers from a nervous disorder.
Leopoldine Herzog joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. After being cured, the children manage to pass their school-leaving exams in Austria. The
Leopoldine Herzog died in Syracuse, New York, in 1975, 33 years after her husband.
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Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (WStLA)
Archiv der Universität Wien
Arolsen Archives
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