Karol Wilhelm Bieler

Karol Wilhelm BIELER, born on May 30^th, 1911 in Tarnopol, Galicia/Austro-Hungarian Empire [later: Poland, today: Ternopil|Тернопіль/Ukraine] (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Tarnopol/Poland, citizenship 1938: Poland), son of Isaak Bieler (1876-?, merchant) and Ruchel Bieler, née Köstenblatt/Goldbrum (1874-?), lived in Vienna's 9^th district, Servitengasse 14/9, was enrolled finally in the spring term of 1938 at the Medical School in the 4^th year of his studies (spring term 1938 was validated on October 5^th, 1938).

In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna (Leaving Certificate ["Abgangszeugnis"] was issued on December 13^th, 1938.

He married on July 25^th, 1938 Polish cosmetician Sonja/Sara/Sala Schmarak (1913 in Tarnopol-?) in Vienna, left Vienna for Poland on September 7^th, 1938 and could work there possibly as a doctor in a hospital. Later he and his wife and their newborn child (b. February 24^th, 1940) were deported to concentration camp Bergen-Belsen and were murdered in the Shoah.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 362; www.genteam.at, www.geni.com; collections.yadvashem.org/de/names; project Servitengasse; information by courtesy of  Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 11/2024.

Herbert Posch