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Leo Luster, the Glossary

Leo Luster (1927–2017) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor.^[1]

17 relations: Alfred Gusenbauer, Allied-occupied Austria, Auschwitz concentration camp, Austria, Bar and bat mitzvah, Death marches during the Holocaust, Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, Displaced persons camps in post–World War II Europe, Holocaust survivors, Israel, Jarosław, Leopoldstadt, Nazi Germany, Red Army, The Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Vienna.
Austrian expatriates in Israel

Alfred Gusenbauer

Alfred Gusenbauer (born 8 February 1960) is an Austrian politician who until 2008 spent his entire professional life as an employee of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) or as a parliamentary representative.

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Allied-occupied Austria

Austria was occupied by the Allies and declared independent from Nazi Germany on 27 April 1945 (confirmed by the Berlin Declaration for Germany on 5 June 1945), as a result of the Vienna offensive.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Bar and bat mitzvah

A bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, or b mitzvah (gender neutral), is a coming-of-age ritual in Judaism.

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Death marches during the Holocaust

During the Holocaust, death marches (Todesmärsche) were massive forced transfers of prisoners from one Nazi camp to other locations, which involved walking long distances resulting in numerous deaths of weakened people.

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Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

The Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich) is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria.

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Displaced persons camps in post–World War II Europe

Displaced persons camps in post–World War II Europe were established in Germany, Austria, and Italy, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe and for the former inmates of the Nazi German concentration camps.

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Holocaust survivors

Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Jarosław

Jarosław (Yaroslav,; Yareslov; Jaroslau) is a town in southeastern Poland, situated on the San River.

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Leopoldstadt

Leopoldstadt (Leopoidstod; "Leopold-Town") is the 2nd municipal district of Vienna (2.) in Austria.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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Theresienstadt Ghetto

Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czechoslovakia).

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Luster