(Q1361426)

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Ludwig Katzenellenbogen

Jewish industrialist, refugee, Holocaust victim, husband of Tilla Durieux

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30 May 1944
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Sie heiratet ein drittes Mal - den jüdischen Unternehmer Ludwig Katzenellenbogen. Das neue Glück allerdings, das für die 50jährige Schauspielerin eher eine Vernunftheirat zu sein scheint, währt nicht lange. Als 1933 die Nationalsozialisten an die Macht gewählt werden, fliehen sie zunächst in die Schweiz, und als dort ihre Aufenthaltsgenehmigung abläuft, weiter nach Kroatien, wo sie unter anderem ein Hotel betreiben. Während sich Tilla Durieux um Visa nach Amerika bemüht, wird ihr Mann 1941 von der Gestapo verhaftet. 1944 stirbt er im KZ Sachsenhausen (German)
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Since the repression against the Jews in Yugoslavia was increasing as well, in 1941 they tried to flee Europe. For them, as Jews, it was not possible to travel through Italy, so they decided to go to Belgrade in order to get visas and then to go to America through Greece and Turkey. At that time the couple had Honduran passports. While waiting for visas, they decided to wait in Skopje in Macedonia, since the city was closer to the Greek border than Belgrade. In April 1941 the couple split, for reasons that are unclear: Tilla went back to Belgrade to get visas and Ludwig remained in Skopje with their belongings (including her valuable jewelry collection and almost all of their money), expecting her to come back in a day or two. Even though he had money, he couldn’t travel anywhere without his passport which Tilla had with her in Belgrade . However, the day she arrived in Belgrade bombings startedand she couldn’t get back to Skopje. After traveling back and forth through Serbia, she16managed to get back to Zlata in Zagreb . Somehow, Ludwig Katzenellenbogen was arrestedby the Gestapo agents in Thessaloniki and deported to Berlin where he died in the Jewish17 18 hospital in 1943 . (English)
Ludwig Katzenellenbogen
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