Eugenia Wilder
Austrian-Hungarian
Eugenia Wilder was the mother of legendary American feature film director, Billy Wilder. - AsNotedIn
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- Son: Billy Wilder
Eugenia Wilder was the mother of legendary American feature film director, Billy Wilder. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1885/00/00 | Balbina Dittler, wife of Adolf Dittler, gives birth to a daughter, Eugenia Dittler in Nowy Targ, Galicia, Austrian-Hungarian. | Born | |||||
| 1885/00/00 | Genia grows up in Zakopane, a small mountain town 90 km south of Krakow. Balbina Dittler, her mother, owns and operates a small, nine room and a single bathroom, hotel, the Zent'al, in Nowy Targ, which was the next-to-the-last stop on the railway line. | Life | Zakopane | Malopolska Voivodeship, PL | |||
| 1900/00/00 | Genia Dittler spends five or six years in New York City, living with her uncle, a jeweler named Reich, and his family on Madison Avenue. | Life | |||||
| 1903/00/00 | Eugenia Dittler marries Hersch Mendel Wilder. Genia had met Hersch, who goes by the name of Max, working as a headwaiter in a Krakow restaurant. | Bride | |||||
| 1906/06/22 | Eugenia Wilder, wife of Max Wilder who ran a small cafe at the Sucha railroad station, gives birth to a son, Samuel Wilder, in the Galician village of Sucha Beskidzka, south of Krakow, Austria-Hungary (now Poland). | Mother | Billy Wilder's Birthday | ||||
| 1907/00/00 | Following Jewish custom, Samuel, was named for a deceased grandfather. His mother, Genia, prefers calling him "Billie", after Buffalo Bill. | Mother | |||||
| 1911/00/00 | The Wilders settle in Krakow and open a hotel and restaurant at the base of Wawel Castle near Jagiellonian University. Hotel City features a restaurant, an outdoor terrace, and a gaming room with billiards and tables for card playing. | Work | Historic Centre of Krakow | Krakow | |||
| 1917/00/00 | In Vienna, Genia Wilder works with the Austrian Red Cross. Max performs guard duty in the Austrian-Hungarian Army Reserves. | Life | |||||
| 1925/00/00 | Genia Wilder makes a new home for her family in the small flat on Billrothstrasse, Vienna. Her oldest son Willie is living in London. | Home | Wilder Building, Wien | Vienna, AT | |||
| 1943/00/00 | Eugenia Wilder dies at Auschwitz concentration camp. During the war she was in Plaszow, Poland. This is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 1957 May 12 by her brother, a Shoah survivor. | Died | Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp | Oswiecim, PL |
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