Pepi Reich

Born:	12-01-1912
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Pepi REICH, born on December 1^st, 1912 in Rozwadów, Galicia/Austro-Hungarian Empire [today part of Stalowa Wola/Poland] (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Ephraim Reich (1884-1942(?), merchant) and Khana Reich, née Tzange, lived in Vienna's 2^nd district, Tandelmarktgasse 9, was enrolled finally in fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 1^st year of her studies (fall term 1937/38 was validated on February 28^th, 1938). In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism she was forced to quit her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna. Later she worked as unoaid trainee ("unbesoldete Hospitantin") at the hospital of the Jewish Community of Vienna at Vienna 18^th district, Waehringer Guertel 97. She was deported from Vienna 2, Tandelmarktgasse 9 to concentration camp Auschwitz [Oświęcim/Poland] on July 17^th, 1942 and did not survive the Shoah.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna: enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 455; information from Dr. Christine Kanzler, Vienna 11/2019; DOeW-Austrian Victims' Database; YadVashem-Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.

Herbert Posch