Salle Pleyel,
the largest symphony concert hall in the city of Paris, founded in 1827 by Ignaz Jozef Pleyel.
Saltenburg, Heinz
1882–1948, German actor, librettist, director and theatre producer in Berlin; emigrated to Vienna in 1933 and to London in 1935. Administrator and director at the Blue Danube Club from 1943 to 1948.
Sassoon, Victor
(1881-1961) was a businessman and hotel operator.
Scheyer, Emilie Esther
1889 – 1945, after assuming US cititzenship in 1931, officially became Galka Scheyer. Painter and art dealer with a great influence on the US West Coast where she represented the exhibition group Die Blaue Vier, whose members were Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Alexej von Jawlensky.
Schindel, Dora
1915-2018, worked with Hermann M. Görgen to organise the emigration of 48 endangered persons (the Görgen group) to Brazil, worked there as a management assistant. Returned to Germany in 1955, lifelong commitment to German-Brazilian dialogue.
Schmirger, Gertrud
1900 – 1975, Austrian writer who wrote historical novels for children and adults under the pseudonym Gerhart Ellert; received the Austrian National Award for Children’s Literature in 1959.
Schocken, Salman
(1877-1959) businessman, publisher and patron of the arts. Starting off with a department store in Zwickau, the family built up an empire with 14 stores until the Nazis came to power in 1933. In 1931 he set up the Schocken Verlag publishing house in Berlin. He moved to Palestine in 1934 and then on to the USA where he lived in exile from 1940 onwards.
Schoenberner, Franz
1892–1970, from 1929 to 1933 Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Simplicissimus, fled in 1933 to the South of France and, in 1941, with the help of Hermann Kesten and the Emergency Rescue Committee, managed to reach the USA.
Schönthan, Doris von
1905-1961, journalist, photographer
Schuschnigg, Kurt
1897-1977, Austrian politician; initially the Justice Minister, then the Federal Chancellor from 1934 to the annexation of Austria in March 1938. Emigrated to the USA after the war, where he took up a professorship in Constitutional Law. 1968 Return to Austria.
