Anna Rezek (Bunzl)

Born:	07-28-1895
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Anna REZEK (nee BUNZL) (born on July 28^th, 1895 in Vienna as daughter of Ludwig Bunzl (1857-1928) and Julia Dolly Porges (1867-1932)), had graduated at the Medical School at the University of Vienna  on July 26th, 1921 with the academic degree 'Dr. med.'. In times of Nazism Anna Rezek was able to emigrate to the USA together with her husband (married in 1921) Philipp Rezek (1894-1963) and their two daughters - future art historian Esther Mendelsohn Bunzl (born in 1923), and future medical technician Susanne Lindau (born in 1926).
She - like her husband - was deprived of her academic degree on July 14^th, 1942 with the racist argument, that she as a Jew was not considered dignified an academic degree of a German university ('eines akademischen Grades einer deutschen Hochschule unwuerdig'). It took 13 years since the deprivation – and a very long time since the end of Nazism – until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on May 15^th, 1955. Anna Rezek died in 1974 in the USA.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/graduation registry (" Promotionsprotokoll ") MED XI (1919–1923) Nr. 717, rectorate GZ 118 ex 1941/42, Nr. 112, GZ 561 ex 1944/45 Nr. 15; Deutscher Reichsanzeiger Nr. 242 from October 16, 1941; RÖDER 1983, 565; BLUMESBERGER 2002, 1118f.; POSCH 2009, 464; GAUGUSCH 2011, 367; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022; www.genteam.at; passenger-database Ellis Island; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 05/2020.

Katharina Kniefacz, Herbert Posch