Dina Strauss

Dina Strauß was born on February 3, 1900 in Binswangen as the daughter of Salomon Strauß and Betty Strauß, née Binswanger.her father Salomon Strauß traded in country products,lived in Binswangen in today's Hauptstraße 30,then still house number 171 and had a warehouse in Lauingen.in 1913 Dina Strauss moved with her family to Augsburg to the purchased house at Schrannenstraße 6, from where Salomon Strauß ran the grain wholesale business J.J. Strauß. Strauß, named after the company founder Josef Jeremias Strauß, Salomon's father, Dina had three older brothers: Martin, born in 1886 - killed in action in Artois in France during the First World War in 1918, Theodor, born in 1888 and Friedrich, born in 1890.After attending grades 1 - 5 of the "Städtische Tächterschule" (Maria Theresia Gymnasium) from 1911 to 1916, Dina Strauss trained as an opera singer at the conservatory in Augsburg from 1916 and worked as an opera singer from then on after graduating.On June 26, 1929, she married Leo Marx, born on June 5, 1896 in Bettingen, Saarlouis, who was a businessman and ran a shop for radios and gramophones in Frauentorstrasse. 4 children were born to the couple - Heinz, born 1930 - died 1931,Gert Siegbert Arnold, born May 21, 1932 - deported to Kaunas (Kowno) Fort IX on November 20, 1941 - murdered there on November 25, 1941,Brigitte, born 1937 - died 1937 and Joel, born January 30, 1939 - deported to Kaunas (Kowno) Fort IX on November 20, 1941 - murdered there on November 25, 1941.Dina Marx was deported together with her two sons from Munich on November 20, 1941 to Kaunas (Kovno-Lithuania) to Fort IX and shot there on November 25, 1941 together with her sons and other Munich Jews. Leo Marx was first imprisoned in Dachau from April 1934 to November 1935. In 1937, the family moved to Munich. In 1938, Leo Marx was sent to the Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen concentration camp for about a year and then emigrated to Shanghai, where his family was unable to join him.