Dr.-Adolf-Altmann-Straße

The street named after Dr. Adolf Altmann on 3 November 1988 commemorates the rabbi and founder of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Salzburg. Born on 8 September 1879 in the then Hungarian Hunsdorf, he assumed the rabbinic post of the Kultusgemeinde Linz in 1907. Only a few years later, in 1911, he founded the Kultusgemeinde Salzburg. Together with his wife Malyne Weisz, he had six children; the family resided in Salzburg. Only a few weeks after the “Anschluss”, he fled with his wife to The Hague in the Netherlands, which the National Socialists occupied in 1940. In 1943, they were forced into the ghetto in Amsterdam, from where the couple was deported via the concentration camps Westerbork and Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on 16 May 1943. Adolf Altmann and his wife Malyine Weisz were gassed on 7 July 1944. One of their sons, a daughter, a son-in-law, and both grandchildren were also murdered in the gas chambers.