Emilie Schenkl

Emilie Schenkl was the wife, or companion, of Subhas Chandra Bosea major leader of Indian nationalismand the mother of his daughter, Anita Bose Pfaff . Schenkl, an Austrian, and her baby daughter were left without support in wartime Europe by Bose, following his departure for Southeast Asia in February 1943 and death in 1945. In 1948, both were met by Boses brother Sarat Chandra Bose and his family in Vienna in an emotional meeting. In the postwar years, Schenkl worked shifts in the Trunk Office and was the main breadwinner of her family, which included her daughter and her mother.

Emilie Schenkl was born in Vienna onDecember 1910 in an Austrian Catholic family. Paternal granddaughter of a shoemaker and the daughter of a veterinarian, she started primary school latetowards the end of the Great waron account of her fathers reluctance for her to have formal schooling. Her father, moreover, became unhappy with her progress in secondary school and enrolled her in a nunnery for four years. Schenkl decided against becoming a nun and went back to school, finishing when she was 20. The Great Depression had begun in Europe consequently, for a few years she was unemployed.

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