I don't know what to say to anyone who would believe this steaming pile of horse shit.
Katalin Weinberger
Holocaust survivor gunned down in tailor shop
by Kirk Mitchell on May 3, 2009
Denver Post
Name: George Weinberger, 58
Location killed: Tailor shop, 1443 Welton St.
Investigative agency: Denver Police Department
Date killed: June 7, 1974
Cause of DeathShot in chest
Suspect: None identified
When Katalin Weinberger entered the tiny tailor shop that she and her husband owned, a trail of blood led to a closet.
George Weinberger, a 58-year-old Hungarian immigrant who had survived Nazi prison camps for four years, was crumpled up inside, dead, according to Denver Post newspaper accounts.
The tailor had been beaten and fatally shot in the chest in his small shop, Royale Custom Tailors and Furs, at 1443 Welton St. The attack happened between 3:50 p.m. and 4 p.m. on June 8, 1974.
His wife had only been gone 10 minutes.
Minutes before she left the shop for an errand, witnesses had overheard a loud argument between the Weinbergers and a customer who had paid them with a bad check.
Even though the shooting happened in a busy part of town during business hours, police had no suspects.
They found a large pipe on the cutting-room floor that apparently had been used to beat Weinberger before he was shot. The spent casing of a .22-caliber cartridge was found on the floor.
Robbery did not appear to be the motive because Weinberger’s wallet was still in his pocket and a cash box that Weinberger kept store payments in hadn’t been disturbed.
A crowd of rush-hour commuters gathered outside the store of the man who sometimes refused to accept payment for sewing repairs he considered too small.
By the day of his death, Weinberger had already endured a lifetime of pain and suffering.
He learned to tailor clothes when he was 14, three years after his father died, leaving his mother to care for a family of five children. When he turned 24, he joined the Hungarian army.
During World War II, he was loaded onto a train boxcar with 80 other Jews and taken to a concentration camp in Germany. During the war he was forced to work in construction, building defense structures for the Germans.
Katalin Weinberger was also in a German concentration camp at the end of World War II. There she helped save the life of her sister, Charlotte Frimm, when she was sick with typhus.
Katalin buried her sister in a remote part of the camp with just a small pipe sticking up through the soil for her to breathe. For 30 days she snuck food and water to her sister. A Jewish doctor at the camp snuck medicine to her. Frimm continued to suffer from severe asthma after they were freed.
Following the war, the Weinbergers met in Budapest, Hungary, where they were married in October of 1945. George Weinberger worked as a tailor.
During the Hungarian revolution in 1956, the Weinbergers escaped to Israel, where they lived for nine years. The couple didn’t have any children. They moved to New York City in 1967, so Katalin could care for her sister, who was living there.
When Frimm moved to Denver for treatment, the Weinbergers followed.
Weinberger opened up a small shop where he arrived each day at 7:30 a.m. and made suits. He had a thick accent and didn’t speak English in complete sentences. But his reputation as a skilled tailor who charged affordable prices helped him stay very busy.
His shop was around the corner from a previous location of The Denver Post. His customers were employees of the paper including reporter Fred Gillies, who wrote that Mr. Weinberger was affable, prompt and professional.
After her husband was murdered, Katalin Weinberger borrowed $3,000 to pay for his body to be shipped back to Israel.
Friends opened a memorial fund to cover her costs.
She wanted her husband to be buried next to his mother. She planned on moving to Israel to be close to her brother-in-law, also a tailor. She wanted to work in a hospital to care for Israeli army war casualties.
Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said like all cold case investigations, homicide detectives have recently reviewed the file for leads.
No arrests have ever been made. No suspects have been identified.
If anyone knows something about the case they should contact the police department, Jackson said.
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