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About Ettie Steinberg
- Ettie Steinberg (1914–1942) was one of only a few Jewish Irish persons killed in the Holocaust in the second World War.
- Esther Steinberg was born to a Czechoslovakian couple, Aaron Hirsh Steinberg and Bertha Roth, on January 11, 1914.
- Her family included six siblings and lived at 28 Raymond Terrace, near the South Circular Road in Dublin.
- They were educated in St Catherine's School in Donore Avenue.Steinberg worked as a seamstress in Dublin where she met and married Belgian Vogtjeck Gluck in Greenville Hall synagogue in Dublin on July 22, 1937.
- The couple returned to his home in Antwerp.
- However the rising tensions of the Nazi actions meant they moved to be further away, and Leon, their son, was born in Paris.
- They continued to flee the approaching Germans and eventually succeeded in gaining visas to travel to Northern Ireland, arranged by the Steinberg family in Dublin.
- However the papers arrived a day too late.
- The family were rounded up and put on a train to Auschwitz where Steinberg, her husband and her son died.Clearly aware of what the danger was, Steinberg wrote a postcard to her family and threw it from the train.
- It read “Uncle Lechem, we did not find, but we found Uncle Tisha B'Av” which meant “we did not find bread, but we found destruction”.
- A stranger found the postcard and posted it.
- They arrived on September 4, 1942 and, it is believed, were immediately executed.A memorial to her is at a secondary school in Malahide, Co Dublin, as well as at the Irish Jewish Museum in Portobello, Dublin.
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