Moritz Deutsch & Therese Kohn

Moritz Deutsch may also be listed as Morris Deutsch or Markus Deutsch. In official records he is often written as “Dr. Markus recte Moritz Deutsch”.  "Recte" is probably best understood by translating as "Really". It's implying that he went by Markus, but his official name was Moritz.

  Moritz Deutsch and Therese Kohn married (probably in Austria) and had the following children:

• Siegfried Deutsch

There are several men from Vienna who are named Siegfried Deutsch, who were killed in the Holocaust. One of them may be our Siegfried. The one born on March 4 1883 is the closest in age to the other siblings, but he would be quite a bit older. It's also possible that he survived but was separated from his family.

Link to the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names

• Henrietta Deutsch.

There is a Henriette Deutsch born June 5, 1881 who was taken from Vienna and died in the holocaust at Maly Trostenets. Again, she would have been a lot older than Mathilde and Stefan, but could have been a sister to Siegfried.

• Mathilde Franziska Doris Deutsch was born on 02 Aug 1890 in Vienna, Wien, Vienna, Austria. She married Hermann Franz Josef Paul Niederweiser on 02 Feb 1909 in Vienna, Wien, Vienna, Austria. She died on 30 Aug 1969 in Bad Reichenhall, Berchtesgadener Land, Bavaria, Germany.

• Stefan Deutsch was born on 03 Nov 1894 in Vienna, Wien, Vienna, Austria. He died between 1942-1943 in Auschwitz. He is listed in the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.

According to the Database, Stefan Deutsch was born on November 3, 1894 in Vienna. During the war he was living at Wien 4, Graf Starhemberg Gasse 37. He was taken to Auschwitz on July 17, 1942 and was eventually killed.

It appears that a religious shift may have been happening in the family, for Mathilda is listed in the record books of the Jewish community in Vienna, yet she also has a baptism certificate from the Catholic church. Her husband would be Christian.

Birth record for Mathilde Deutsch in the Jewish records of Vienna.

Baptism record for Mathilde Deutsch in the Roman Catholic church

Birth record for Stefan Deutsch in the Jewish records of Vienna.