Marco Feingold
Marko M. Feingold ( born May 28, 1913 in Besztercebánya / Neusohl, Austria - Hungary, today Banská Bystrica, Slovakia) is president of the Jewish Community of Salzburg and the Salzburg care synagogue.
Life
Marko Feingold grew up in Vienna's Leopoldstadt. After an apprenticeship as a clerk he found work in Vienna, became unemployed and was with his brother Ernst traveling together as a traveler in Italy. In 1938, he was arrested during a short stay in Vienna. He fled first to Prague, was deported to Poland and returned with false papers back to Prague, where in 1939 he was again arrested, imprisoned and deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz. Finally, through the concentration camp Neuengamme and Dachau in 1941 he came to Buchenwald, where he was interned until the liberation. By chance, he settled in 1945 in Salzburg, where he lives since then. Between 1945 and 1948 he helped Jewish survivors living in DP camps in Salzburg and organized with the Jewish refugee organization Brichah the (illegal ) transit of Jews from Central and Eastern Europe to Palestine. In 1948, he was owner of a fashion business.
Commitment
Already from 1946 to 1947 was of fine gold short President of the Jewish religious community of Salzburg. Only after his retirement in 1977 was of fine gold sitting vice president, and finally again in 1979 President of the Jewish Community in Salzburg. Since then he has also deployed an extensive lecturing, especially as a witness in schools and parishes about the Holocaust, his experiences in the concentration camps and Judaism. He is also an active participant in inter-religious dialogue.
In the season 2013-14 he took part in the eyewitness production with The Last Witness by Doron Rabinovici and Matthias Hartmann at the Burgtheater in Vienna; production was related to the pogroms of November 1938, gained high esteem by the public and press and became the Berlin Theatre Meeting and to the Dresden State Theatre invited.
Publications
- (Ed.): An eternal Nevertheless. 125 years Jews in Salzburg. Vienna, Cologne and Weimar 1993.
- Anyone who has ever died, which nothing hurts. A story of survival. Picus Verlag, Wien 2000. ISBN 3-85452-441-2
- Anyone who has ever died, which nothing hurts. A story of survival. New edition by Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg, 2012. ISBN 978-3-7013-1196-5