Kurt Rosenkranz (2 August 1927 – 13 March 2024) was an Austrian adult educator.
Biography
Kurt Rosenkranz was born in
Vienna. He grew up in the Viennese district of
Brigittenau. His Jewish parents and grandparents had emigrated from
Eastern Europe to Vienna. At the age of 9 he became a member of the boys' choir at the
temple (de) in
Kaschlgasse.
In the year 1938, in the course of the “
Anschluss” Rosenkranz experienced riots and humiliation. He was transferred from his old school to a “Sammelschule” for Jews in Währingerstraße 43. The Rosenkranz family fled to
Riga
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, but when the German troops arrived there, the members of the Rosenkranz family were transferred to Soviet camps and interned first at
Novosibirsk
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in Russia, then in
Karaganda in Kazakhstan.
In 1946 Kurt Rosenkranz returned to Vienna to work with his father in their small shoe factory.
In 1989 he founded the Jewish Institute for Adult Education.
Rosenkranz earned the title “Professor” for his merits. His brother
Herbert Rosenkranz
Herbert Rosenkranz (7 July 1924 in Vienna – 5 September 2003) was a Jewish historian.
Life
Herbert Rosenkranz grew up in the Viennese district of Brigittenau. His Jewish parents, Michael and Mircia, (maiden name Kesten), and his grandparents h ...
worked as a historian at
Yad Vashem.
He died on 13 March 2024, at the age of 96.
Nachruf: ERINNERN:AT trauert um Kurz Rosenkranz
Writings
* Together with David Zelinger
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(ed.): Verpflichtung eines Überlebenden – Reden und Berichte. Bohmann, Vienna 1993
Literature
* "Encyclopaedia of Austrian Authors of Jewish Descent. 18th to 20th Century"; Ed.: Austrian National Library, Vienna. K.G. Saur, Munich 2002, (Volume 2)
* Christian H. Stifter, Brigitte Ungar-Klein
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* Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), a French actress and singer
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(ed.): Bildung gegen Vorurteile, Festschrift aus Anlass des 10jährigen Jubiläums des Jüdischen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung, Wien 2000
References
External links
Jewish Institute for Adult Education
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1927 births
2024 deaths
Austrian educators
Austrian Jews
Businesspeople from Vienna
People from Brigittenau
Austrian prisoners and detainees