Unterdrückung–Diskriminierung–Verfolgung. Das Schicksal der Geschwister Olga Quandest und Karl Loewit

Abstract

The following paper aims to reconstruct the life of the siblings Olga Quandest and Karl Loewit, who lived in the city of Innsbruck during the time of National Socialism. Even though they followed the Roman Catholic faith, both of them were categorized as „Jews“ or „Mischlinge“ and therefore had to suffer from oppression, discrimination and persecution. In this paper, these individual biographies have been contextualised with macrohistorical developments and outline the conditions for Jewish spouses in so-called „Mischehen“ in the Gau Tirol-Vorarlberg between 1939 and 1945.