Photoalbum Karola Oesterreicher
The oldes picture of Karola, I know of, was published in a British newspaper and shows her wounded on the ship „Theodor Herzl“, on which she came to Israel. Her legs are bandaged because she had been hit by a British bullet:
The following photos show Karola in Israel. I was able to make copies during my trip to Israel in August 2009. Unfortunately her husband had had just an accident and was in a weak shape and also her son could not help dating the pictures. They were either in frames or in a box - in either case without any writing on the back. I have tried to sort them by the age of Karola’s children and her hair-do. If a picture shows Karola without unknown people, it is often difficult to put the pictures in a chornological order. The following one could be the oldest of the series, but it is difficult to say because I do not know who the other girl is and Karola is so thin that one can hardly estimate her age:
The following photo shows Karola with her eldest son, Shimon. It is likely that she sewed this and the other dresses on the pictures herself. Shimon remembers well, that his mother used to sew her dresses herself, when he was a child:
Karola and her eldest son Shimon at Purim:
At another Purim: Karola and her husband Zwi (Hermann), who is from Fulda (Germany). The boy dressed up as a clown is Shimon. It is possible that the younger child is her son Arie. He is wearing a dress, but Israel was a British colony for a long time and there it was a custom to dress boy in dipers in dresses:
Karolas sons Shimon (left) and Arie (right):
Karola and her daughter Nira:
Karola and her children (left Shimon, right Arie, front Nira):
Karola wearing a dress she sewed from a cut from a Burda-magazine:
Karola on the left - the others are unknown:
Karola (most likely in the 60s) with her daughter Nira and her younger son Arie:
Karola’s husband, Zwi (Hermann) Zucker, sitting on the left:
Karola in a red dress, on the left there are her daughter Nira, and her husband Zwi in a brown jacket:
Karola with her teenage-daughter Nira (the photo was not any sharper):
Karola was a passionate grandmother. Here you can see her on the Bar Mitzwah of one of her 9 grandsons:
Karola with one of her grandsons:
Karola with her husband and 5 of her 9 grandsons:
Karola lived with her husband on the top-level of this house from 1959 until her death on November 4th 2003. Her husband Zwi still lives there (picture taken August 2009):
April 1992: Karola and her husband in thier living room - picture taken during my first stay in Israel:
between August 15th and 20th 1993
Karola and her husband in a park in Vienna, when I met them for the very first time in Austria:
(from left to right: Karola, my mother, Zwi Zucker, my father)
Karola and her husband with my parents and sister in our living room (between August 15th and 20th 1993):
family-portrait in our garden (1993):
saying good bye at the central train station in Vienna (20. 8. 1993) - Mr. Zucker always has been a German patriot and so the two of them always went to Fulda before out after their stay in Laa:
At the train (20. 8. 2003):
August 1994 - Karola, her husband and our dog Susi at the Schiller-park in Laa:
August 1994 - Karola next to one of her beloved statues in Laa, to which she had said good-bye before being forced to leave Laa: in 1938: 
August 1994 - Day-trip to Mazocha (flowstone cave in Brno - Czech Republic):
August 1994 - Taking a walk near the Mazocha:
August 1994: in the garden of my parents - shortly before saying good-bye
August 29th 1995 - Day-trip to Hungary (Karola, her husband, me, my father):
August 29th 1995 - Karola and me:
1999 - Slowakia: visiting the daughter of the cousin, who was in Auschwitz with Karola:
At the grave of the cousin:
September 2000 at the cafe Moser in Laa an der Thaya - Karola and my baby-niece Marie:
September 2000: Karola with me , my mother, my sister and my niece (from left to right):
August 18th 2001 in Laa with my baby-niece:
August 19th 2001 - Karola and I always used to celebrate our birthday together because we were both born in August (she exactly 50 years and 18 days before me):
same day - Karola and her husband in our garden:
February 26th 2002 - Karola with me and my niece in Laa:
same day at the cafe Moser in Laa (Karola with my mother):
August 27th 2002 - Nikolsburg / Mikulov - Czech Republic - Karola at the grave of a relative, who once was county-rabbi of Moravia:
same day: at the grave of Netti and Maier Blau (distant relatives):
at the evening of the same day at a restaurant: the last existing photo together with me:
Karola’s grave (picture taken August 2009):
me at Karola’s grave (picture taken August 2009):
