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From Dachau to Buchenwald

Fritz Löhner, a.k.a. Beda, is deported

DACHAU/BUCHENWALD

Only one day after the “Anschluss” Fritz Löhner was arrested in Vienna and shortly thereafter deported to the concentration camp at Dachau. Löhner was born in Bohemia in 1883. As a young child, he moved with his parents to Vienna. By the 1920s, Beda, as Fritz Löhner sometimes called himself, had become one of the most renowned opera librettists in Vienna. On top of that, he wrote numerous lyrics (some still known today), not to mention satires and pieces for cabaret, always with a clear attitude: his time as an officer in World War I had turned him against the military. On the 23rd of September 1938, the Nazis transferred him from Dachau to the concentration camp at Buchenwald.


SOURCE

Institution:

Jüdisches Museum Wien

Original:

Photography of Fritz Löhner; Inv. No. 24627

 

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