Bosel, Siegmund 1893-1942

Sigmund Bosel was a well known financier in Vienna, Austria in the 1920s and 1930s. He was deported with other Viennese Jews to the Riga Ghetto in 1942 and killed during the journey by SS Hauptsturmführer Alois Brunner.

Bosel’s daughter, Julie Marks, née Bosel, was born 1927 in Vienna, Austria. She emigrated to Prague, then to Paris and London, where she lived until 1950. During this time she served 3 years with the US Army Intelligence Corps in occupied Germany. After her immigration to New York in 1950 she worked as an interior designer.

From the guide to the Siegmund Bosel Collection, 1924-1939, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives)