Ipswich in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom — Northwestern Europe (the British Isles)
Dr. Kurt Erich Glauber
(1902-1945)
— In Memoriam —
Photographed By Dan Fox - AJEX
1. Dr. Kurt Erich Glauber Marker
Austrian born, Jewish, British Military Volunteer, MI6 Secret Agent, WW2.
King's Commendation for Brave Conduct, 1944/1945. while investigating and reporting on factories where Nazis were thought to be developing nuclear weapons, he was betrayed.
He was harshly treated for being a British Agent and a Jew. Glauber was killed in Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
U.K. Branch, AJEX
Erected 2023 by Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, AJEX.
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, World II. In addition, it is included in the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation. series list.
Location. 52° 4.02′ N, 1° 10.168′ E. Marker is in Ipswich, England, in Suffolk. Marker can be reached from Belvedere Road. War Memorial is located in the Ipswich Old Cemetery, IP4 4AL, along the path passing the Jewish section. It is on the right hand side as one heads to the WWI cemetery and the Cenotaph War Memorial. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 7 Belvedere Rd, Ipswich, England IP4 4AL, United Kingdom. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 3 other markers are within 11 kilometers of this marker, measured
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More about this marker. The marker is not a funerary memorial. There is no body at the site. By Hitler's orders, Glauber's body was to be burned at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp he was murdered in.
Regarding Dr. Kurt Erich Glauber. Dr. Kurt Glauber was an Viennese born Austrian Jew. He escaped to England when Hitler took over Austria. In England, Glauber enlisted in the British Army. Because of his perfect German being blond-blue eyed, and intense desire to fight Hitler, he was recruited by MI6 - as a secret agent. Glauber was smuggled into Nazi Austria with a specific mission, to spy and report on weapons development, with special attention to possible Nazi nuclear weapons developments.
He was betrayed by a double agent and captured by the Gestapo. He was subjected to extra brutal interrogation by the Nazis because of his being a Jew and a Secret British Intelligence Agent. Glauber refused to divulge any information to the Nazis.
He was sent to Mauthausen Concentration Camp where he was coldly murdered a few weeks before the Camp was liberated by American forces in May.
His body
Photographed By Dan Fox - AJEX
2. Dr. Kurt Erich Glauber Marker
Dedication ceremony of the Dr. Kurt Erich Glauber memorial
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1. Kurt Glauber. (Submitted on September 14, 2023, by Jerry Klinger of Boynton Beach, Florida.)
2. Jewish MI6 Agency -commeorated Vienna Grid - Austrian News. <blockquote>Dr Glauber enlisted in the British Army in January 1940, initially joining the Royal Artillery, before volunteering to join MI6 to work as a secret agent.
MI6 smuggled him back into the city on a secret mission, where he was hidden by his sisters, Daniza and Rada Illitsch, in their apartment.
One report suggests Dr Glauber was investigating and reporting on factories where German Nazis were thought to be developing nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, the newly released Oppenheimer shows the titular character leading the Manhattan Project in a bid to create the atomic bomb, driven by the possibility that the Nazis had a nuclear weapons program underway. (Submitted on September 14, 2023, by Jerry Klinger of Boynton Beach, Florida.)
3. War Memorial for British Jewish MI6 Secret Agent. (Submitted on September 14, 2023, by Jerry Klinger of Boynton Beach, Florida.)
4. jewish-mi6-agent-kurt-erich-glauber-honoured.
For five months, he courageously passed information to the British. Dr Glauber and his fellow British agents trusted a woman who allowed them to use her flat on as a safe house.(Submitted on September 14, 2023, by Jerry Klinger of Boynton Beach, Florida.)
This decision would cost them their lives. In early 1945, Dr Glauber and his fellow agents entered the flat – and came face to face with the Gestapo who were lying in wait.
Credits. This page was last revised on December 21, 2023. It was originally submitted on September 14, 2023, by Jerry Klinger of Boynton Beach, Florida. This page has been viewed 95 times since then and 23 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on September 14, 2023, by Jerry Klinger of Boynton Beach, Florida. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
