Friedrich Eitelberg

Friedrich Eitelberg was born in Vienna as the legitimate son of the Jewish lawyer Maximilian Eitelberg and the Jewish Else, née Billitz. It cannot be determined from the records whether Else Eitelberg died or the marriage was later divorced, but Maximilian Eitelberg later married Helene Eitelberg from Neutra [today: Nitra in Slovakia].

Nothing has been preserved about Friedrich Eitelberg's school career. At the age of 14, he witnessed 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 Friedrich Eitelberg was considered a 'full Jew'. As such, he is forbidden from attending a grammar school.

Friedrich Eitelberg is raised together with his father Maximilian, Helene Eitelberg, and his aunts Melanie and Gertrude Eitelberg were deported to the KZ Kauen on November 23, 1941, his 17th birthday, where they were all murdered on November 19, 1941. Only his uncle Cornelius Eitelberg survived, as he was married to a Catholic 'Aryan woman' and was not deported due to his 'mixed marriage'. Friedrich Eitelberg survives his 17th birthday by six days.