Friedrich Günser correspondence

Friedrich Günser, a native of Vienna, Austria, was interned by the British as an enemy alien after his escape from Austria to Britain at the start of World War II. He had apparently been a baker in Vienna, and his father owned a bakery there. He was interned at Camp Mooragh on the Isle of Man in 1940, before being sent to Australia in the fall of 1940, where he was interned at Camp Hay in New South Wales, and later at Camp Tatura in Victoria. He immigrated to Palestine in August 1943 via the Waipawa. His wife and son, Lilly (Cölestine, born in Lwow, 1905) and Heinrich (born in Vienna, 1933), remained behind in Vienna, hoping to obtain an affidavit to come to the United States, which she had planned to do by travelling across Russia in 1940. Those plans were never realized, and she appears to have been deported to a labor camp before being sent to Theresienstadt in September 1942, and to Auschwitz in January 1943, where both she and her son were subsequently killed. Günser's parents, Jakob (born 1875) and Cäcilie (born 1874), appear to also have been deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942, and then to Auschwitz in May 1944, where they were also killed.