The Egger family

Ernst Joseph Egger and his wife Fanny Egger, born on July 12, 1870, were the owners of the house at Mommsengasse 25. They lived at the address until the Gestapo picked up the elderly couple in 1944 because of their Jewish origins. Fanny was imprisoned in the Rossau barracks, where she died shortly afterwards as a result of mistreatment by the guards. Ernst was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and murdered on December 9, 1944. The couple's two daughters, Elisabeth and Marianne, are also taken away and deported. Marianne survived the Shoah, while Elisabeth was murdered in Auschwitz.