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86 Postcards / letters of a Jewish family Steiner, perished in Holocaust. To Pressburg – Bratislava from over the world, early 20th cen., in German - 86 Postcards / letters of a Jewish family Steiner, perished in Holocaust. To Pressburg – Bratislava from over the world, early 20th cen., in German Most of postcards were sent to Hermann Steiner. Many of postcards are lithographed. Most of members of the family perished in Holocaust. Gustav-Mordechai Steiner Was Born in Bratislava in 1893, The Seventh of Nine Children Born to Herman and Selma-Sara Steiner. Herman Owned a Publishing House and a Large Antiquarian Bookstore in the City; Three of His Sons Worked There. The Family Belonged to An Orthodox-Zionist Stream of Judaism. During the First World War Four of Herman and Sara’s Sons Served in the Austro-Hungarian Army-Siegfried, Max, Gustav and Józzi. All Four Returned from the War Unscathed. GUSTAV Served as a Medical Officer in the Army and Was Awarded with A Medal for HIS Accompplishments. In 1930 He Married Gita Kürcz (B. 1907), The Daughter of a Metal Trader from St. Nikolaus in Central Slovakia. The Couple Had Two Children: Karl-Nathan (B. 1933) and Alice-Sara (B. 1934), and the Live in Bratislava. Gustav Opened a Practice in Their Home and Gita Ran The Clinic. Gustav Also Worked Several Hours a Week at the Jewish Hospital in Bratislava. In June, 1940, Dr. GUSTAV Steiner’s License to Practice Medicine Was Revaked, Despite this, He Continued Treating Patients, Among Them Jewish Refugees. Later He Was Allowed to Practice Again, But Was Forced to Relocate Along with His Family to the Nearby Village of Stupava. AFTER The SUPPRESSION OF SLOVAK NATIONAL UPRISING, and The German Invasion, The Exempions Issued by the Slovakian Regime Were Annulled. In October 1944 Gustav, Gita and Their Two Children Were Imprisone. GUSTAV and her daughter alice were deported on the lastrsport from bratislava to auschwitz, on the 17th of october 19th of October 1944, a day Before Her Tenth Birthday. On the 27th of October Gustav Was Sent from Auschwitz to Kaufring, and Satellite Camp of Dachau, Were He Perished in December of 1944. Gita and Her Son, Nathan, Were Deported To Bergen-Bel Sen and Survved. Herman and Sara Steiner Passed Away in Bratislava Before The War. Their Eldest Son, William, Was the Only One of their Nine Children to Survive the Holocaust. He Passed Away in Bratislava in 1948. Of the Couple’s 16 Grandchildren, Five Were Murdered During the Holocaust. By 1949 All Surviving Members of the Family Had Immigrated to israel with the Exception of Two of their Granddaughters - Selma, Siegfried ’Daughter, and Lydia, Joqsi’ S Daughter. In 1991 Selma Succeeded in Reopening the Steiner Family Bookstore in Bratislava. Today, Herman and Sara Steiner’s Grandson, Nathan, Is the Head of the Union of Czechoslovakian Immigrant’s in Israel, and is Active in commemerating the jews of czeschosl Ovakia.