Marko M. Feingold: Austrian Jewish leader and centenarian Holocaust survivor

Marko M. Feingold (1913–2019), Austrian Jewish leader and centenarian Holocaust survivor, imprisoned in Auschwitz and other camps, who later led Salzburg’s Jewish community and preserved survivor testimony.

Marko M. Feingold (28 May 1913 – 19 September 2019) was an Austrian Jewish leader and a centenarian who survived the Holocaust.

Early life

Feingold was born in Besztercebánya/Neusohl when that town was part of Austria-Hungary. The locality is today known as Banská Bystrica in Slovakia. He spent his childhood in the Leopoldstadt neighbourhood of Vienna.

Deportation and imprisonment

During the Second World War he was imprisoned and held in several Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Neuengamme, and later in Dachau and Buchenwald. He survived the imprisonment and the liberation that followed.

Community service and later years

After the war Feingold took an active role in Jewish communal life. He served as president of the Jewish community in Salzburg and was responsible for the city’s synagogue. He lived into his 100s and died in 2019 at the age of 106, having been recognized as one of Austria’s longest-lived Holocaust survivors.