See also
| Husband: | Living LOWY ( - ) | |
| Wife: | Jenny MADER (c. 1912- ) | |
| Name: | Living LOWY | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
Jenny MADER
Jenny MADER
Jenny MADER
Jenny MADER
| Name: | Jenny MADER | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Isaac Groder MADER (c. 1870-c. 1947) | |
| Mother: | Anna MEHR (c. 1870-c. 1948) | |
| Birth | c. 1912 | Belz, L'viv, Ukraine |
| Death | Wien, Austria | |
Story of Jenny Mader by her niece Katherine Mader.
EMail: nkulla AT aol.com
Jenny was born in Belz, Poland, and moved with her family at a young age to Vienna. Jenny married Leo Kaufman and lived in Budweiss, Czechoslovakia. Eventually Jenny's entire family except for Paul and Ello left Vienna and stayed with Jenny in Budwelss. Jenny's husband Leo was the first of the family taken from his job by the Nazis, and no one knew where he had been taken. Jenny tried to pay for information about Leo but did not find out anything. Eventually Leo wrote from Buchenwald Concentration Camp but was soon thereafter killed. Jenny spent the war in Teresianstadt Concentration Camp. (see Lilly Mader notes).
In 1949 Jenny married Max Lowy who had a clothing factory in Vienna. He had spent the war years in Israel.
They lived both in Vienna and in Baden bei Wien, a small town about 15 kilometres from Vienna which was known for its mineral baths. For many years the Mader family owned a city block at 1 Radetzky Strasse in Baden. On the property was an older huge home which had been converted into flats. During the summers the Mader family gathered on the veranda in the back of their flat which overlooked the gardens. Paul Mader, Ello Mader, and their families often visited Baden to see Jenny and Lilly. Eventually half of the property was sold to a bank; when Jenny died the property was inherited by Anita Testa-Mader, Ello's daughter.
When Jenny got older she lived in the only Jewish Old Age Home in Vienna. Kathy and Anita came to visit yearly, and were always amazed that there was a security guard with an Ouzi machine gun guarding the entrance to the home. Apparently, due to the risk of anti-Semitism incidents in Vienna it was necessary to keep the guard, even in the 1990's. For Jenny's 90th birthday, Anita, Kathy, Lizzi, and Kathy's mother-in-law, Isabel Kulla, made a surprise visit to Jenny. Jenny died shortly after that visit, and is buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Vienna along with her sister Lilly, brother Ello, and her parents, Isaac and Anna.
Jenny never worked, and the family always joked that she was extremely lazy. She liked to be taken care of. When anyone is lazy in the Mader family it is said that they take after Aunt Jenny. During WWII Jenny, as was common with other Jews, hid their money in Switzerland where it was called "schwartze geld" (black money). After the war Jenny made frequent trips to Switzerland to retrieve the money, and used it to spend her summers in Baden and at the "spa". It was always the subject of much speculation in the Mader family regarding how much money Jenny really had in Switzerland. Once Kathy's mom, Ruth, went with Jenny to retrieve some money, and Ruth reported that Jenny had withdrawn enough money to buy a full-length mink coat for herself. Unfortunately, Aunt Jenny was in the old age home so long that all of her jewelry disappeared, and the home professed to know nothing about it. This was a very sad end for a women who had been married twice, to wealthy husbands, but never had any children, and ended up poor and alone.