Else Feldmann

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Else Feldmann (25 February 1884 – 1942) was an Austrian writer, playwright, poet, socialist journalist, and victim of the Holocaust.

She grew up in Leopoldstadt as the daughter of poor Jewish parents with her six siblings. She attended college, but after her father lost his job she was forced to leave school to work in a factory. In 1908, she became a contributor to the socialist newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung and went on to co-found a socialist writers group, Vereinigung sozialistischer Schriftsteller, with Jewish socialist poet Josef Luitpold Stern, communist author, poet, essayist, and songwriter Fritz Brügel, Jewish anarchist and socialist lyricist and poet Theodor Kramer, and early science fiction author Rudolf Brunngraber.^[1]

Feldmann was able to develop stories from her articles into novels to reach a wider audience with her socialist message. She began working full-time for the Arbeiter-Zeitung in 1923 until the newspaper, along with other socialist and communist political activity, was forbidden by the austrofascist Fatherland Front Party in 1934. On 14 June 1942 Feldman was captured by the Gestapo and sent to Sobibór extermination camp, where she was murdered.

Books

References

^ Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers, Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. 1997.

v t e Sobibor extermination camp
Camp organizers	Odilo Globocnik Hermann Höfle Richard Thomalla Erwin Lambert Karl Steubl Christian Wirth
Commandant	Franz Stangl ^a Franz Reichleitner ^b
Deputies	Karl Frenzel Hermann Michel Johann Niemann Gustav Wagner
Gas chamber executioners	Erich Bauer Kurt Bolender
Other officers	Rudolf Beckmann Paul Bredow Herbert Floss Erich Fuchs Siegfried Graetschus Lorenz Hackenholt Josef "Sepp" Hirtreiter Alfred Ittner Erich Lachmann Willi Mentz Paul Rost Ernst Stengelin Ernst Zierke Heinrich Barbl Franz Wolf
Guards	Trawnikis John Demjanjuk
Resistance Survivors	Philip Bialowitz Thomas Blatt Selma Engel-Wijnberg Leon Feldhendler Dov Freiberg Alexander Pechersky Jules Schelvis Joseph Serchuk Stanisław Szmajzner
Nazi organizations	General Government SS-Totenkopfverbände List of Sobibor extermination camp personnel
Aftermath Memorials	Sobibor trial Sobibór Museum Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Escape from Sobibor Sobibor Sobibor perpetrator album
Related topics	The Holocaust Operation Reinhard Höfle Telegram Extermination camp
^a 28 April to 30 August 1942 ^b 1 September 1942 to 17 October 1943 ^c Up to 200 Death camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau Belzec Chełmno Majdanek Sobibor Treblinka