Gertrude Winter collection

Gertrude Winter collection of drawings, documents, notebooks, correspondence. Gertrude Winter was born on February 28, 1905. She was a first-and second grade teacher for girls at the "Volksschule der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien," which was located in the Castellezgasse in Vienna. The school was closed in the summer of 1941. The content of the collection includes drawings, poems and essays. There are also nine notebooks with between 22-48 pages of writing. In addition there are 11 photographs of the students and teacher. Altogether 35 of the children can be identified by their names. One known survivor, Herta Griffel, escaped to the United States in November, 1940. Another known survivor, Ruth Weiner, left Vienna on a Kindertransport. A third, Dorit Deutsch, is also believed to have survived. Twenty seven of the children were deported between February 12, 1941 and October 9, 1942. Gertrude Winter was deported a short time before her last students and was killed in Auschwitz in Occtober 1944.