| Born: | 12-03-1910 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Felix SCHREIER, born on December 3rd, 1910 in Vijnita, Bukowina/Austro-Hungarian Empire [later: Vizhnitsa/Romania, today: Wyschnyzja/Ukraine] (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Markus Schreier (1886-? (1886-?, accountant) and Klara Schreier (1885-?), lived in Vienna's 2nd district, Engerthstrasse 230/12, was enrolled finally in fall term 1935/36 at the Medical School of the University of Vienna in the 5th and last year of his studies ("Absolutorium" was certified on July 18th, 1938).
Felix Schreier was no longer enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine in 1938, but was already in the final examinations stage ("Rigorosen"). After a lengthy period of uncertainty, he was able to complete his studies after all and was awarded his doctorate on July 21st, 1938 under numerous symbolic discriminatory measures as part of a "non-Aryan doctorate" ("Nichtarierpromotion"), while at the same time being banned from working in the entire German Reich.
He had to flee Vienna and managed to emigrate to Colon/Panama at the end of 1938. On June 21st, 1939 he traveled on the Norwegian ship SS Ivaran from Cristóbal/Panama to New York, NY/USA where he arrived on June 28th, 1939 (he gave as destination: his uncle Dr. J. Klepper in New York, as next of kin: his uncle M. Baumgarten in Cristóbal/Panama), but did not stay there.
After the Anschluss, his father was dismissed without pay and in May 1938 the family was deprived of their council apartment (reason for dismissal: "non-Aryans") and his brother Philipp (born 1915), a car mechanic who had just joined the Austrian army at the time of the Anschluss, also became unemployed. The family had to move to Vienna's 2nd district, Sterneckplatz 17/6, where they were also soon "rented out" and Felix Schreier had to flee Vienna and, with the help of the emigration department of the Jewish Community Vienna and the Gildemeester campaign, managed to emigrate from Amsterdam/Netherlands on November 25th, 1938 with the SS Simon Bolivar to Colon/Panama, where his uncle Max Baumgarten lived in Cristóbal/Panama and where he was offered a job in a hospital. However, on June 21st, 1939, he traveled on the Norwegian ship SS Ivaran from Cristóbal/Panama to New York, NY/USA, where he arrived on June 28th, 1939 (he gave his uncle Dr. J. Klepper in New York as his destination), but did not stay there.
He traveled to Palestine [Israel], lived as a doctor in Haifa, became an Israeli citizen and emigrated to Brazil in Latin America in 1957.
Felix Schreier died on February 17th, 1961 and is buried in Tel Aviv/Israel.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment form ("Nationale") MED 1930-1936; geraduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") MED 1929-1941, 4115; POSCH 2009, 370; www.genteam.at, www.ancestry.de; information by courtesy of his cousin Jacob Kaplan 07/2022 and 12/2023.
Herbert Posch
