Viennese districts: 9th District

Herbert Blankstein was born in Vienna in 1925 and grew up in the 9th district. In December 1938 he fled with his mother to Brussels. His stepfather was deported to Southern France in 1941 and later to Auschwitz. In Belgium, Blankstein worked in the armaments industry and was protected from deportation due to his knowledge of German. Blankstein married in Brussels and emigrated to Palestine in 1948 together with his mother, wife and son. He worked as a goldsmith. Blankstein lived in Tel Aviv at the time of his interview.

Chava Lifschitz was born in 1924 and lived with her family in the 9th, and later the 2nd district of Vienna. In 1938 she attended the high school that she left after the Anschluss. Through her membership of the Maccabi Hatzair, Lifschitz was able to attend the Hakhshara camp Ahrensdorf in Brandenburg, from where she fled to Palestine. She worked there mostly as a teacher. At the time of the interview she lived in Israel.

Susanna Yokel was born in Vienna in 1923 and attended the Schubert Realgymnasium (high school) in the ninth district until March 1938. She obtained a emigration certificate through her membership of the Zionist youth organisation "Blau-Weiß" and fled in March 1939 via Italy to Palestine where she was a co-founder of the Kfar Blum Kibbutz in 1943. In 1956 she emigrated to the US with the family she had started in Israel. At the time of her interview she was living in Bethesda, Maryland.