Stolperstein for Selma Schulamit Fischler

Selma Schulamit Fischler was born on 23 February 1922 as the daughter of Rosa and Berl (Bernhard) Fischler. The family lived in Graz, Wartingergasse 9/II. After the "Anschluss", the family tried to flee from Graz, which proved easier for the siblings Selma and Max than for the parents. Thus, Selma Fischler, who had worked as a commercial apprentice in Graz, was able to reach Palestine in safety via the so-called Jugend-Alija (organization for the immigration of teenagers aged 15 to 17 to Palestine). Selma was allowed to travel from Austria to Palestine on a student visa and left Austria by train on 2 November 1938. She arrived in Trieste via Tarvisio and boarded the Galilea heading towards Palestine, where she finally arrived in Haifa on 7 November 1938, two days before the November Pogrom Night. Selma Fischler remained in Palestine after the war. Her brother Max survived the persecution in Scandinavia and her father survived in Italy. Selma's mother Rosa was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.