Marko Feingold was born on 28.05.1913 in Neusohl, Slovakia, and died on 19.09.2019 in Salzburg at the age of 106. For teens, the key point in his story is that a life shaped by four concentration camps kept actively shaping Salzburg for decades after 1945.
Anyone who looks into his biography finds more than a textbook name: an address, a liberation date, and a still-visible honour in the cityscape.
Who Marko Feingold was – explained briefly
Persecution, four camps, and liberation in 1945
Feingold was arrested in 1939. He was held in the concentration camps Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Dachau, and finally Buchenwald, where US troops liberated him on 11.04.1945. He was the only member of his family to survive the Nazi persecution. After liberation, he ended up in Salzburg somewhat by chance: onward travel to Vienna was impossible because of the Soviet occupation zone. There, he first opened a fashion shop.
34 years as president of the Jewish Community
After the death of Ladislaus Friedländer in November 1982, Feingold took over leadership of the Jewish Community of Salzburg. From 1985, he was its official president, until his death in 2019. During this time, he gave many talks about his time in the camps, the Holocaust, and Jewish life in Salzburg.
Where the work becomes concrete in Salzburg
The City of Salzburg officially lists Feingold as president of the Jewish Community and documents his fresh start in Salzburg after 1945.
The page on his honorary grave notes that Feingold became an honorary citizen of the City of Salzburg in 2008, and that his honorary grave is at the Jewish Cemetery in Salzburg-Aigen.
The obituary from the National Fund of the Republic of Austria places his work in a national context, as a witness to history and a voice against antisemitism.
Why the Salzburg connection stays this concrete
The connection runs through three fixed places: the synagogue at Lasserstraße 8, the honorary grave in Salzburg-Aigen, and the Marko-Feingold-Steg bridge over the Salzach, named after him in 2020. None of these places is interchangeable or vague.
The City of Salzburg, the honorary grave page, and the National Fund's obituary show three angles on the same path: civic honour, a memorial site, and national context. This source picture was checked again for SalzburgTeen on 03.08.2026.
Why this can matter to teens
For teens, it matters that remembrance culture doesn't stay an abstract duty here. A bridge in daily life, a grave, and a Jewish Community make a historical name into a place you can walk past every day.
His 34 years as president in particular show real continuity: decades of public work against forgetting, far beyond a single moment.
Age fit, registration and support
The profile fits from about age 14, because the concentration-camp history assumes some basic understanding of Nazi-era history. For younger teens or school classes, a companion, teacher or parent helps place open questions about that period.
Visiting the public memorial sites in the city costs nothing; for guided tours by the Jewish Community itself, registering in advance through the City of Salzburg's official contact channels is recommended.
How to connect with this path
- If you're interested in his biography, start with the City of Salzburg: Marko Feingold.
- If you want to see how Salzburg honours him, read the page on his honorary grave in Salzburg-Aigen.
- If exile and persecution history from Salzburg interests you further, also check the profile of Stefan Zweig, who left Salzburg in 1934 for a different political reason.
What matters so this profile stays honest
The statements here rely on the City of Salzburg, the obituary from the National Fund of the Republic of Austria, and the honorary-grave documentation, last checked on 03.08.2026.
The profile names the four concentration camps openly and factually, and avoids telling Feingold's survival as a plain success story rather than traumatic persecution.
Conclusion
Marko Feingold's Salzburg trail can be traced through a liberation date, an address at Lasserstraße 8, and a bridge named after him in the cityscape. For teens, what counts is less the fame than the question of how one person's 34 years of active remembrance work stayed visible in a city.