NameMaria Fischer Countess Countess
BurialHampstead Cemetery
Birth20 May 1883, Boskowitz
Death22 Jul 1969
Spouses
BurialGarden of Beginnings
Birth21 May 1874
Death26 Mar 1953
FatherAlois (Lazar) Witrofsky (1838-1905)
MotherAnna Horowitz (~1841-1931)
Marriage16 Jul 1905
ChildrenFranz Alois (1906-1954)
Notes for Maria Fischer Countess Countess
{geni:about_me} Moved with family to live in Brunn and married in the Temple there16 July 1905 to Vikunt Witrofsky but divorced in Vienna 26 January 1912 .

Re-married chapel of the 'Schotten' Benedictine Monastery Vienna 18 April 1912 to Karl Herzfeld, a Viennese society physician who managed military hospitals in Vienna during WWI. Remained in Vienna after the War and death of hersecond husband but her Jewish antecedents caused her to flee Vienna when a member of her household betrayed her to the Gestapo. Thereafter lived London, New York and Washington supported by her step son Karl Herzfeld, an academically accomplished Viennese and later American scientist who refused to join the 'Manhatten' project on ethical grounds when told that Germany could not develop the atomic bomb in the foreseeable future.

Returned London from New York 1958 on Nieuw Amsterdam to Southampton accompanied by wife of son in law, Regina Herzfeld

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===Leavings of the Jewish Community of Vienna===

* No. 12268
* Last Name Witrofsky
* First Name Maria
* Maiden Name Fischer
* Lastname changed
* Date of Birth 1883.05.21
* Birth Place Boskowitz
* Country Mähren
* Leaving 1912
* Age 29
* Marital Status verheiratet
* WStla Brünn
* IKG
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