Ilse Weber

Ilse Weber, née Herlinger ( born January 11, 1903 in Witkowitz in Ostrava, † October 6, 1944 in the concentration camp Auschwitz -Birkenau ) was a German-speaking Czech Jewish writer.

Life

She wrote at age 14 Jewish children's fairy tales or short plays for children. These were published in German, Czech, Austrian and Swiss newspapers and magazines. In 1930 she married Willi Weber. On February 6, 1942, she was deported from Prague in the Theresienstadt ghetto. There she worked as a head nurse in the children's infirmary.

In stock more poems were written. Famous, most recently interpreted in 2007 by Anne Sofie von Otter, was "I wander through Theresienstadt". This poem has Ilse Weber wrote for her son Hanus, " she had put on a train before the outbreak of war in Prague, in the hope of seeing him again one day ."

Your 1931 born son Hanus Weber was sent from the occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia with a organized by the British Nicholas Winton in Prague Kindertransport to England and escaped destruction. His mother and his brother Tomáš ( "Tommy", * 1934) were murdered on 6 October 1944 at the Auschwitz concentration camp. When walking into the gas chamber Weber is the composer of her lullaby Wiegala have sung for her son and the other children.

Works (selection)

  • The stories about Mendel Rosenbusch. Stories for Jewish children, dyers Ostrava 1929 ( Ilse Herlinger )
  • The Blue Prince. Fairy tale with singing and dancing in e act, press d Zionist Commission. Central Pub. f d čechoslov. Republic, Mähr. Ostrava 1928 ( Ilse Herlinger )
  • Jewish children's stories, Dr. Dyer, Mähr. Ostrava 1928 ( Ilse Herlinger )
  • In your walls, the suffering lives - poems from the Terezin concentration camp ( appeared in 1991 )
  • When well the suffering to an end. Letters and poems from Terezin, edited by Ulrike Migdal, Hanser, Munich 2008
  • I wander through Theresienstadt, songs for voice and piano. According to the sources, and in Rev ed. by Winfried Radeke, Schott, Mainz 2008
  • Ade, comrade
  • And the rain runs down
  • Wiegala
  • The kick scooter races and other stories (1927-1930 published )
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