| Born: | 10-27-1902 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Gusta SLOPKOWITZER (née KLARMANN), born on October 27th, 1902 in Krakow, Galicia/Austro-Hungarian Empire [Krakow/Poland] (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), daughter of Josef Klarmann (1880-1939, merchant, owner of the real estate and mortgage brokerage and property management company Klarmann & Co, in Vienna's 16th district, Hasnerstraße 17) and Rachel Lea Klarmann (1876-?). She had married Michael Slopkowitzer, a physics student born in 1896 in Kolomea [Kolomyja|Коломия], in the temple in Pazmanitengasse in 1927 (he graduated at the University of Vienna in 1930 "Dr. phil."), who founded the company Klarmann & Co with her father in 1930. Gusta and Michael Slopkowitzer lived in Vienna's 2nd district, Schönngasse 19. Gusta Slopkowitzer was last enrolled in the fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 3rd year of her studies (fall term 1937/38 was no more validated on February 25th, 1938 due to a lack of attendance ("wegen mangelnder Frequenz")).
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.
Gusta Slopkowitzer had already worked as a nurse on occasion alongside her medical studies and registered as a "Jewish nurse" in Vienna in 1942. On October 1st, 1942, she was deported from Vienna to the Theresienstadt [Terezín/Czech Republic] ghetto on transport 43, together with her younger sister Rosalia Amalia Klarmann (born 1907, nurse). On October 9th, 1944, both were deported from there to the Auschwitz concentration camp [Oświęcim/Poland]. Gusta Slopkowitzer survived and returned to Vienna after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1945. Her sister and her husband did not survive and were declared dead at her request after 1945.
In Vienna, she continued her medical studies at the University of Vienna and received her doctorate (Dr.med.univ.) on April 7th, 1949.
She worked as a doctor in Vienna from 1949 and also lived again in Vienna's 16th district, Hasnerstraße 57/II/21, the house that had belonged to her and her sister after the death of their father in 1939 and which was expropriated ("aryanized") after the deportation and for which she had to initiate restitution proceedings from 1948 (among other things, the administrator appointed during the Nazi era was also charged in 1950, who threatened her and her sister with deportation in 1942 if they continued to refuse to give up their shares in the house). She completed her specialist training in dentistry and was licensed as a dentist from 1952 and ran a practice in Vienna's 10th district, Absbergergasse 41, until she had to end her medical practice in 1964 due to illness.
Dr. Gusta Slopkowitzer, née Klarmann, died on January 14th, 1977 in the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna's 16th district and is buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937–1938, graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") MED 1942-1949, No. 2263; Austrian State Archives OeStA/ AdR/ E-uReang/ FLD 16226 und 29976, OeStA/ AdR/ E-uReang/ VVSt/ VA 32795 und VA 32796; Vienna City Archive (WStLA)/Aerztekammer Wien, K2/1 - Kartei: Aerztinnen und Aerzte (registry physicians), WStLA/ 1. 3.2.119.A41 510, Bez.: 16, WStLA/ 2.3.3 A22, 99a; Archives of Berlin ("Landesarchiv Berlin"), B Rep. 025-03 Nr. 4853/51; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 477;SCHNEIDER 1995, 178; information by courtesy of Dr. Ilsemarie Walter, Vienna 2018 and by Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 07/2024; www.myheritage.at; collections.arolsen-archives.org; www.anno.onb.ac.at; www.doew.at.
Herbert Posch
