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Born in Moravia, Irene Hellmann-Redlich was married to Paul Hellmann, the Austrian textile factory owner, who died in Vienna shortly before World War II. Both played a special role in Viennese cultural life.
Paul Hellmann was one of the financiers of the Salzburger Festspiele. In addition, Irene and Paul supported numerous artists and institutions such as the Wiener Werkstätte. Their house in Vienna and their country house in Alt-Aussee near Salzburg were meeting places for all kinds of artists. A.o. the author Hugo von Hofmannsthal, composer Richard Strauss and opera singer Friedrich Schorr were among their circle of friends. The correspondence between Hofmannsthal and Irene Hellmann has been documented by the German Schillergesellschaft.
English politician Mary Agnes Hamilton wrote of Irene Hellmann in her memoir Remembering my good friends (1944): '' Irene gathered to her everything that was most interesting in the artistic life of the most artistic city in Europe (...) She, with her triangular face, black hair, and immense, wide-apart gray-blue eyes, had a Slav beauty, and the style that one then saw in greater perfection in Vienna even than in Paris. '
In 1939 Irene Hellmann took the neighborhood after her eldest son Bernhard, who had lived in Rotterdam for quite some time. During the occupation Irene lived in Bilthoven for some time. Then she went into hiding in Amsterdam, where she fell into the hands of the Germans as a result of treason. Irene was murdered in Auschwitz. Her son Bernhard was killed in Sobibor. Irene's daughter-in-law and grandchild survived the war.

Bernhard Wolfgang Hellmann was the eldest son of Paul Hellmann and Irene Hellmann-Redlich, who played an important role in Austria's cultural life in the 1920s and 1930s. As the owner of a textile factory, Paul Hellmann was one of the financiers of the Salzburger Festspiele; in addition, he and his wife supported numerous artists and institutions such as the Wiener Werkstätte. In her memoir Remembering my good friends, English politician Mary Agnes Hamilton writes about them: 'Irene gathered to her everything that was most intersting in the artistic life of the most artistic city in Europe; among their intimate friends were Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss, Friedrich Schorr, Ignaz Friedmann, Richard Beer Hofmann, Egon Wellesz, Jacob Wassermann. ' Their house in Vienna and especially their country house in Alt-Aussee near Salzburg were meeting places for all kinds of artists. The correspondence between Hofmannsthal and Irene Hellmann, documented by the German Schillergesellschaft, bears witness to this.
Bernhard Hellmann was destined for a career in 'the textile'. To this end he worked in England and later in Rotterdam, where he married the daughter of a Jewish Russian and a mother from Groningen. Bernhard Hellmann's great interest was biology. His childhood friend Konrad Lorenz (winner of the Nobel Prize in Biology) called him an unsung genius in this respect. In the first years of the war, he provided for himself with the manufacture of wooden jewelry. Then he went into hiding. In early 1943 he was arrested and transferred to Westerbork. After only a week, he was transported to Sobibor, where he was gassed upon arrival. His wife and only child survived the war.

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