Herbert Schwarcz

Herbert (Josef) SCHWARCZ (הרברט שורץ), born on January 28^th, 1917 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Lajos/Ludwig Schwarcz/Schwarz (merchant, business owner corsage-preduction in Vienna's 2^nd district, Taborstrasse 4) and Janka Schwarcz, née Doehrn and lived with his parents in Vienna's 2^nd district, Grosse Mohrengasse 3. He had graduated from the Realgymnasium in Moedling/Lower Austria (Franz-Keim-Gasse) and passed his school-leaving examination (Reifepruefung/Matura) there in 1936 (at that time he lived in Moedling, Goethestrasse 31) and began to study at the University of Vienna in the fall term of 1936/37 and was last enrolled in the 2^nd year at the School of Philosophy in the fall term of 1937/38, taking lectures in history, art history, philosophy and musicology.

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.

He was forced to flee Austria and married the orphan Luise Lotte Ticho (1921-2011, later married Saxl), born in Meran/Italy, still in Vienna on January 13^th, 1939 (civil marriage at the Vienna-Leopoldstadt registry office) and they both managed to emigrate to the British Mandate territory of Palestine [Israel], where they arrived on September 26^th, 1939 and were naturalized at the end of 1941. He lived at that time in Jerusalem, 211 Mamillaroad, and worked as a civil servant in the military (regimental paymasters office).

Little is currently known about the further life of Herbert Schwarcz.

His name is mentioned and commemorated on the "Memorial for History Students and Teachers of the University of Vienna Expelled under the Nazi Regime" since May 2022.

Lit.: Archives of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 472; www.genteam.at; www.myheritage.at; www.ancestry.de.

Herbert Posch