Oscar Gruenwald

Private, Pioneer Corps
Service no: 13809112
Died 3 May 1943
Buried El Alia Cemetery, Algeria
Age 33

Headstone Inscription
‘IN MEMORY OF MY BELOVED BROTHER’


The CWGC records state that Oscar’s parents were Leopold and Theresia. Leopold and Theresia were both killed in the Holocaust, Leopold in 1943 in Theresienstadt and Theresia in 1942 in Treblinka. Research has established that Oscar had a brother Rudolf who was married to Julie Weiss and they both died in the Holocaust. Another sister Katharina escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 and travelled to USA to her mother’s brother Ignatz.

Further details about Oscar’s family are unknown. Please contact us if you can provide more information.

Courtesy of the CWGC