Grabanlage für Wilhelm und Elisabeth Schneider auf neuem jüdischem Friedhof in Eisenstadt

On the new Jewish cemetery in Eisenstadt is the grave of Wilhelm and Elisabeth Schneider. Wilhelm Schneider was a merchant in Eisenstadt and the last mayor between 1934 and 1938 of the community Unterberg-Eisenstadt, the former Jewish quarter, which became an autonomous community in 1871, largely identical with the Jewish religious community. After his removal, arrest and expulsion in May 1938, he could flee with his wife Elisabeth to New York. After the war, Wilhelm Schneider returned to Austria with his wife, and they lived in Baden bei Wien. After their death, they were buried in their former hometown community of Eisenstadt.