Background
Marco Feingold grew up in Leopoldstadt, Vienna.
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In 1938, he was arrested in Vienna during a short visit. At first he escaped, to Prague, was expelled to Poland and turned back to Prague with false papers. In 1939, he was arrested again and deported to the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
He was also imprisoned in the concentration camps at Neuengamme and Dachau and finally the concentration camp Buchenwald in 1941, where he stayed until his liberation in 1945.
He moved to Salzburg by chance, where he now lives. Between 1945 and 1948, he helped Jewish survivors who were living in displaced person camps in Salzburg and organised, with the Jewish refugee organisation Bricha, the emigration of Jews from middle and eastern Europe to Palestine.
In 1948 he acquired a fashion store. Between 1946 and 1947, Feingold was briefly the president of the Jewish community in Salzburg.
Just after his retirement in 1977, he was at first vice president and then, in 1979, president of the Jewish community once again.
Achievements
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Decoration for Services to the Liberation of Austria (1977) Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria (1985) Civil Letter of the City of Salzburg (1985) Medal of the City of Salzburg coat of arms in gold (1988) Golden Cross of Merit of the Federal State of Salzburg (1988) Appointed Councillor (1991) Honorary cup of Salzburg (1993) Golden Medal of Honour of the Province of Salzburg (1998) Ring of the City of Salzburg (2003) Honorary Citizen of the city of Salzburg (2008) Kurt Schubert Memorial Award (2010) Golden Ring of Honour of the University of Salzburg (2012) Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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Austria