Ernestine Gross

1849–1919 (age 70)

Biography

Ernestine Gross was born in 1849 and lived through the transformative final decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She witnessed significant changes in Jewish life in Moravia and maintained her place within the Brno Jewish community until her death in 1919.

Her life extended into the post-World War I era, a period of considerable upheaval and transition. Ernestine Gross is remembered through her burial in the Jewish cemetery in Brno, where she rests among members of her community.