Alfred Mahler

Emil Alfred Mahler was born on 12 October 1912 in the then Austrian city of Lemberg (from 1918 Polish Lwów, now Ukrainian Lviv). Little is known about his family. His father’s first name was Wolf, and his mother’s maiden name was Körner. Alfred Mahler’s paternal grandparents were Adolf and Regina Mahler, and his maternal grandparents were Wolf and Rachel Körner.

Alfred Mahler studied medicine at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów and became a neurologist. He belonged to the Jewish religious community. In 1939, Alfred Mahler lived in Lwów at 12 Zamojskiego Street. Following Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland, all men of military age in Poland were conscripted into the army. Later that same year, in 1939, Alfred Mahler was taken prisoner of war by the Germans in Pilsen and was initially interned at Stalag VIII A in Görlitz. From there, he was selected as a Jew in 1941 and deported to the Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp. Presumably from there, he was transported at an unknown date to the Lemberg-Janowska extermination camp, where he was murdered on 26 May 1943.

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