Samuel Schallinger (died 1942) was an Austrian Jewish businessman.

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Schallinger was an Austrian Jewish businessman who was co-owner of the Imperial and the

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hotels in Vienna, Austria, which today are still among the city of Vienna's grandest hotels. In 1938, the hotels underwent

Aryanization Aryanization () was the Nazi term for the seizure of property from Jews and its transfer to non-Jews, and the forced expulsion of Jews from economic life in Nazi Germany, Axis powers, Axis-aligned states, and their occupied territories. It enta ...

and he was forced to sell his shares. He and his family were deported to

Theresienstadt concentration camp Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination c ...

near Prague, Czechoslovakia where they all died in 1942. Details of the property seized from Schallinger and other Austrian Jews under the Nazis, and names the famous beneficiaries who took them and never gave them back, are outlined in the book ''

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'' by Stephan Templ and Tina Walzer.

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