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Ettie Steinberg

1914 – 1942

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About Ettie Steinberg

Lived 1914 – 1942 (aged 28). Ettie Steinberg was an Irish tailor.

Stolperstein in Dublin; her birthplace is given as "CZ" (Czechoslovakia) because that's where Veretsky was located in the interwar period. Esther "Ettie" Steinberg (11 January 1914 – 4 September 1942; married name Ettie Gluck) was one of only a few Irish Jews murdered in the Holocaust.

Early life Steinberg was born to Aaron Hirsh Steinberg and Bertha Roth, on 11 January 1914, in Veretsky, Austria-Hungary; the family moved to Dublin in 1925.

Life Steinberg worked as a seamstress in Dublin where she met and married Belgian Vogtjeck Gluck in Greenville Hall synagogue in Dublin on 22 July 1937. The couple returned to his home in Antwerp. However the rising tensions of the Nazi actions meant they moved to be further away, and Leon, their son, was born in Paris.

Death They continued to flee the approaching Germans and eventually succeeded in gaining visas to travel to Northern Ireland, arranged by the Steinberg family in Dublin. However the papers arrived a day too late. The family were rounded up and put on a train to Auschwitz.

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Who was Ettie Steinberg?

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When was Ettie Steinberg born?

Ettie Steinberg was born on 11 January 1914 in Mukachevo.

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Ettie Steinberg died on 4 September 1942 in Auschwitz.

What was Ettie Steinberg's occupation?

Ettie Steinberg was a tailor.

What nationality was Ettie Steinberg?

Ettie Steinberg was Irish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ettie Steinberg

· Wikidata: Q56036390

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