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Hella Roubicek Mautner

Prague, Czech Republic

1896 - 1983
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Hella Mautner posed for photo, wearing black shirt and pearl necklace
Hella Mautner posed for photo, wearing black shirt and pearl necklace

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Name in US
Hella Mautner
Name at Birth
Helena “Hella” Roubičková
Married Name
Hella Roubicek Mautner
Date of Birth

09/06/1896

Country of Birth
Czech Republic
City of Birth

Prague

Parents

Arnŏstka (Ernestine, “Tina”) Popper
(06/01/1869 Královice, Czech Republic – 10/22/1942 Treblinka)

Julius Roubiček
(0/30/1870 Prague, Czech Republic -?)

Married 03/24/1895 Prague, Czech Republic
Divorced 1909

Sibling(s)

Josef “Roby/Pepo” Roubiček (Spouse #1: Leta Beitman; Spouse #2: Beatrice)
(01/28/1898 Prague, Czech Republic – 12/1981 New York City)
To US 1923; To Birmingham 1926

Adéla “Ada/Alice” Roubičková (Spouse: Dr. Artur Steinhauer)
(03/29/1899 Prague, Czech Republic – sometime after 1941 Lodz)
Deported to Lodz Ghetto 10/21/1941 with her husband and 2 children, Tomáš (age 5) and Eva (age 8)
All murdered by the Nazis

Spouse(s)

Dr. Leo Mautner
(03/03/1891 Brno, Czech Republic – 09/02/1944 Birmingham, AL)
Married 12/09/1923 in Prague

Children

Boby Mautner
(1925 Vienna, Austria – 1928 Vienna, Austria)
Died of leukemia

William “Willy” Mautner (Spouse: Norma Ham)
(02/24/1927 Vienna, Austria – 06/21/1996 New York City)

Nelly Mautner (Spouse #1: Stuart Urbach; Spouse #2: Paul A. Caldwell)
(02/21/1931 Vienna, Austria – 9/13/2024 Bethesda, MD)

Religious Identity (Prewar)
Reform Jewish
Religious Identity (Postwar)
Reform Jewish
Dates Lived in Alabama

1939-1983

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Birmingham
Date and City of Death
11/02/1983 Arlington, VA
City of Burial / Cemetery
None; her memoir is her memorial
US Sponsor for Immigration

Sponsored by Josef “Roby/Pepo” Roubiček, Hella’s brother, who had been in Birmingham since 1926

Hella, in turn, sponsored her nephew, Robert “Bobby” Steinhauer, to come to Birmingham after the war; the remainder of his family perished

Year / Ship to US / Arrival City
March 9, 1939 / SS Veendam / New York City
Dates Lived in Alabama

1939-1983

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Birmingham
Date and City of Death
11/02/1983 Arlington, VA
City of Burial / Cemetery
None; her memoir is her memorial
Memoirs / Books

Hella by Nelly Mautner Urbach and Willy Mautner
A family memoir

Memoirs of Hella Mautner / June 1980 / Birmingham Memory Bank Project

Additional Resources

Leo Baeck Institute | Hella Mautner Collection (AR 10299)
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/14414

US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Items not yet catalogued
Includes family photo album created by Artur Steinhauer
Digitized copies available from AHEC

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