Steiner, Endre
| Surname, Name The spelling of names follows “Spis imion żydowskich” [The list of Jewish first names] (Warszawa 1928), as it was the only means to avoid the doubling of people on the list. Exception was made for famous individuals whose names are widely known in another form than that proposed in “Spis”.
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Steiner, Endre |
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| Date of birth | 1908 |
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Location The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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Bratislava |
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State The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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CZ |
| Document | passport of Paraguay |
| Fate | survived |
Steiner, Endre (1908–2009) – an architect
Born on 22 August 1908 to a Jewish family in Dunaszerdahely in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he completed his secondary education in Hungary. In the years 1925–1932, he studied at the German Technical University in the Czech city of Brno. Following graduation, he worked for Ernst Wiesner, but after serving his traineeship in 1934, he set up his own architectural bureau. One of his first independent design projects was the residential building at Plac Kamenné in Bratislava. In the years 1931–1938, he published the “Forum” architectural journal in Bratislava together with Endre Szőnyi. In 1935, he married Hetta Weiner, with whom he had two sons.
In 1940, he was briefly detained at a Nazi concentration camp. Later that same year, Endre fled with his wife and young son to Slovakia in order to avoid further persecution. While there, he joined the Bratislava Working Group – an underground Jewish organization. Endre helped save more than 7,000 people from deportation to Auschwitz.
He and his family later hid in the mountains, and this allowed them to survive the War.
Following the liberation of Slovakia by the Red Army in 1945, he resumed his architectural career. He also administered a rehabilitation center for Jewish children. But when the Communists took over power in Czechoslovakia in 1948, he decided to emigrate to the United States. For a short time, he resided in Cuba. In 1950, having been offered the position of chief architect at an American bureau, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia. He also served as Vice-President of the Department of Urban Planning at the American Institute of Planners. Endre Steiner died in Atlanta on 2 April 2009 and was buried at Oakland Cemetery.