Dr. Maximilian Eitelberg
Personalia
Curriculum Vitae
Maximilian Eitelberg was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of the well-known ear specialist Abraham Josef Eitelberg and Jetty, née Pordes. A Jewish doctor from Tarnopol in Galicia [today: Tarnopil in Ukraine], Abraham Eitelberg graduated in medicine from the University of Vienna [today: Medical University of Vienna] in 1878 and, together with his wife Jetty, who was also Jewish, had four children, Maximilian, Cornelius and twins Gertrude and Melanie.
After elementary school, Maximilian attended the Akademisches Gymnasium in Vienna, where he graduated in 1895. In the same year, he enrolled in law at the University of Vienna and was awarded a doctorate in law in 1899.
After his legal internship, Maximilian Eitelberg set up his own business as a lawyer in Vienna. In 1920, he married Else Billitz and became the father of Friedrich Eitelberg in 1924.
On November 23, 1941, a deportation transport with 1,000 Jewish men, women and children left Vienna's Aspang train station. However, this transport never arrived at its originally planned destination of Riga.
The transport from Vienna, like several deportation transports from the "Altreich" planned for Riga, was diverted to Kaunas in Lithuania for reasons that have not yet been clarified and handed over to Einsatzkommando (EK) 3. This unit of Einsatzgruppe A had been working since June 1941 with the massive participation of local forces to "make Lithuania free of Jews" and had murdered more than 130,000 people in total. Immediately after their arrival, the deported Viennese Jews were shot in Fort IX, part of the old Tsarist fortifications in Kaunas, which had become the site of regular massacres, by Lithuanian "helpers" under the command of members of EK 3.
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Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (WStLA)
Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstands (DÖW)
Archiv der Universität Wien
Medizinische Universität Wien (MU)
Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde (IKG)
