Stella Arzt

     Stella Arzt was born on 4 August 1911, in Vienna, Austria.^1,2 Prior to 1942 Stella lived at Pichlergasse 4/9, Vienna 9, Austria, . This was the wartime address.² 14 June 1942 Maximillian, his wife Chana and his sister Stella were all sent from Vienna to Sobibor oder Majdanek, a concentration camp in Wlodawa, Lublin, Poland. Also deported at the same time was Hans Georg Arzt (b 12 Jun 1887) living at the same address (possibly an uncle). (see appendix for more information).^3,2 She died on 15 June 1942 at the concentration camp at age 30.³ Sobibor was an extermination camp set up in the Lublin region of Poland. In May of 1942 the camp began mass gassing operations. Trains entered the railway station and the Jews onboard were told they were in a transit camp, then were forced to undress and hand over their valuables. They were then led along the 100-metre-long (109 yards) Road to Heaven (Himmelstrasse), which led to the gas chambers, where they were killed using carbon monoxide released from the exhaust pipes of tanks. Between 200,000 and 250,000 people were killed there.⁴