| Born: | 10-09-1904 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Isidor SCHENK, born on October 9th, 1904 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Hermann/Armin Schenk (born 1878, rabbi) and Franziska/Fani Schenk (née Fischer, born 1879), lived in Vienna's 2nd district, Franz-Hochedlinger-Gasse 26/31. He was enrolled since 1934 (with interruption 1935/36) until finally fall term 1937/38 at the Philosophical School in the 3rd year of his studies and took courses in Psychology, Chemistry, History, Philosophy and Art History (Leaving Certificate ('Abgangszeugnis') was issued on April 28th, 1938).
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he she was forced to quit his her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.
Isidor Schenk had to flee Vienna, lived in Vienna's 2nd district, Rembrandtstrasse 16/14 from March to September 1938, and was officially deregistered to "Czechoslovakia" from September 13th. His parents were able to flee to Palestine [Israel] in June 1939, and his brother Gottli(e)b Schenk (b. 1903) was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp [Oświęcim/Poland] in 1944, and later transferred to Mauthausen.
The 2010 exhibition "Ausgegrenzt, Vertrieben, Ermordet" (Excluded, Expelled, Murdered) at the Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna commemorated Isidor Schenk and 20 other former students of the University of Vienna from 1938, who were attending courses in art history at the time.
Little is known about his further life so far.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 466; Exhibition "Ausgegrenzt, Vertrieben, Ermordet" 2010.
Herbert Posch
