{geni:about_me} Source for birthdate is HUNGARIAN BIRTHS at
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsea...SJ~&mPageStart=1 (must be a member of JewishGen.org to use). Says:
STRICKER, Joseph, b. 10-Nov-1861 M, Parents: '''Salomon Stricker & Rosalie RICS''' (it's RIESZ)
Budapest / 252-14 Local Gov't. Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kis-Kun '''Pest''' LDS 642962, Vol. 5
Josef was a co-owner with brothers Sigmund and Moritz of S. [Salomon] Stricker & Sons, a leather tannery, in [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szombathely '''Szombathely'''], Hungary. Directory listing in Vienna appears in Adolph Lehmann's allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger › 1891-1900 › 1892 › Firmenverzeichnis, Image [
http://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/wbrobv/periodical/pageview/64582 '''1521'''], right-hand column: Stricker S. & Söhne.
Josef married Gisela Jaray. Per genteam.at:
* Year 1892 [Oct. 30], Numerative [
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-2579...,344266302,344281401 '''276''']
* Volume Stadttempel (Innere Stadt)
* Stricker, Josef
* Jaray, Gisela
The marriage record is in ''Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 01. Bezirk (Innere Stadt), Trauungsbuch H 1892-1893'', Image #84 of 230, at FamilySearch.org.
Josef was living at Wien IX, Hörlgasse 4 at time of deportation at age of 80, according to his nephew, Otto Stricker [memoir/D Lavender]. Record appears in ''The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names'' at [yadvashem.org], alsoon Austrian Dokumentationsarchiv:
http://www.doew.at/ausstellung/shoahopferdb_en.html, and also at
http://www.lettertothestars.at/en/liste_opfer.php* Stricker, Josef: Date of Birth Nov 10, 1861
* Deportation Wien to Litzmannstadt [Łódź], Oct 28, 1941
* Last place of residence Wien 9, Hörlgasse 4
* Date/Place of Death [
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005071 Łódź / Litzmannstadt], July 7, 1942
"By the beginning of summer 1942 the SS had killed about half of all the people who had been deported in October/November 1941 from Germany, Austria, Bohemia and Moravia. Of the 5000 Viennese Jews only 615 were still alive in theautumn of 1942. When the ghetto in Łódź was broken up in August 1944 and all the inmates deported to Auschwitz, only between 300 and 400 were still alive. »Selection