{geni:about_me} Birthdate is found in ''Geburtstags Merkbuch / Birthday Book'' of Ernestine Reif Schlesinger, in possession of Janet Lindner, ERS's great-grandaughter. Entry by Ernestine Reif Schlesinger.
Born [
http://badatelna.eu/reprodukce/?fondId=241&zaz...&reproId=3885948 February 13, 1868] UHERSKÝ OSTROH (Ungarische Ostra, o. Uherské Hradiště), 1000 N (births) 1849 - 1875; 1876-1879, 1880-1881(i), Image #69/150. Name is Hugo.
Hugo [later Hermann, see below] "resigned" from the Jewish faith, per genteam.at ''Jewish Resignations'', in 1902 at age 34:
* Last Name Reif, First Name Hugo
* Date of Birth 1868.02.13 (Feb. 13, 1868)
* Place of Birth Ung.Ostrau, Ungarn [Hungary]
* Profession Kaufmann
* Leaving 1902, age 34, Marital Status '''ledig'''
Birthdate also recorded at
http://www.avotaynu.com/holocaustlist/r2.htm [''list of holders of Austrian bank accounts at time of the Holocaust''] as "13.02.1868"
Per notes from conversation with Ileana Bentia Wexler (recorded by her daughter Janet Lindner), Hugo Reif, Ileana's great-uncle, owned a pretzel factory. The ''High-Life-Almanach: Adressbuch der Gesellschaft Wiens und der österreichischen Kronländer, 1913'', at ancestry.com, says address was Wien IX, Fersteigasse 3. Appeared at this address in the Wien City Directory as late as [
http://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/wbrobv/periodical/pageview/219195 1936].
Buried [
http://www.friedhoefewien.at/eportal/fhw/backSuchergebnis.do Friedhof]: Baumgarten, Gruppe O, Nummer 1003
* Reif, Hugo 71 Bestattungsdatum 27 April 1940
* Timon, Mary 54 Bestattungsdatum 30.08.1933
* Reif Wilhelm (son) 84 Bestattungsdatum 10.05.1988
* Reif Nora 77 Bestattungsdatum 02.07.1945
See [
http://books.google.com/books?id=S4zF0qmfEG4C&...2Wien%22&f=false Unterhändler des Vertrauens: aus den nachgelassenen Schriften von ... by Richard Schüller]: Hugo was ''Hermann'' when he married "Fan" Timmon, an Irishwoman who taught English in Vienna. "She married one of her students, Hermann Reif."