Henryka Berger (geb. Both)

Born:	01-15-1912
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Henryka BERGER (nee Both), born on January 15^th, 1912 in Lemberg/Poland [Lwiw/Ukraine] (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Dr.iur. Benno Both (lawyer), and Dorothea (nee Spitzmann), lived in Vienna 1^st district, Stadiongasse 5. Henryka was married to the lawyer Dr.iur. Jakob Berger (born on August 8^th, 1908 in Lemberg/Poland [Lwiw/Ukraine]) and was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 5^th and last year of her studies. Henryka and Jakob Berger had to flee Vienna and were able to emigrate to the USA via England from Liverpool on September 21^st,  1940 with the the ship SS Scythia, arriving in New York on October 3^rd, 1940.
Her parents were unable to escape in time and were deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they were murdered on May 21^st, 1944.

Rita Henryka and Jakob Berger lived in New York. Her husband died in 1976. Rita H. Berger died on November 17^th, 2001 in New York City, NY/USA and is buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, NY, USA.

Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 361; Archive of the University of Vienna/Enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; information of Dr.ⁱⁿ Barbara Sauer, Vienna 08/2017 and 12/2020; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 99; Washington Library, Zygmunt William Birnbaum Papers; www.ancestry.de.

Herbert Posch