Margarete KARLINER 1895 - 1985

 
Tuesday, 06 November 2007

Margarete was born on the 9th February 1895 in Peiskretscham, Germany, now Pyskowice 5677, Upper Siesia, Poland to Isidor Karliner and Bianka, nee Pick. She was called Grete by the family, her parents had a clothing shop. Her marriage to Leopold Heilbrunn on the 26th of  November 1919 in Berlin was probably arranged. She was 24 years old and lived in Oschersleben were Werner was born in 1921 and Herta in 1923. In 1939, sponsored by the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, the family followed their son Werner to Australia and settled on a dairy farm at Jilliby, NSW.
  When Leopold passed away in 1941 Grete and Herta moved to Sydney and started a catering business at William Street, Kings Cross but lived at Roslyn Gardens. In May 1946 she asked Werner to apply for her two nephews, Heinrich and Fritz Karliner, for admission to Australia, her given address at that time was 21 Tusculum Street, Potts Point. Grete married Kurt Parker (formerly Pikarski), a drycleaner in 1947. Grete was called Mutti by her children and she loved to be visited by her grandchildren.
  In 1956 Grete went to the US to visit her brother Ernst Karliner. She travelled on a British passport, arriving in Honolulu on April 27th and returning to Sydney on 15 May 1956, although she had a visa valid for four years.
 Grete spent her later years in the Montifiore Home at Hunters Hill and passed away in February 1985 at the age of 90 years and is buried in the Jewish section of the Rookwood Cemetery.
© Marie Heilbrunn 2007