Alice Sperber (false Bernzweig)
| Born: |
10-19-1916 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Alice SPERBER (false Bernzweig, change of name to Sperber on March 10
th, 1925), born on October 19
th, 1916 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Hersch/Heinrich Sperber (shopkeeper) anf Gisela Sperber (née Mund), lived in Vienna's 2
nd district, Grosse Schiffgasse 22, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Philosophical School in the 4
th year of her studies and took courses in English and Romance languages and literature Studies and History (in the spring term 1938 she requested to continue her studies in the context of the Numerus clausus of Jewish Students, but was rejected).
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism she was forced to quit her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.
She was able to escape from Vienna and emigrated to Great Britain, where in 1939 she worked as a probationer nurse at the
Prince of Wales's General Hospital in Tottenham, Middlesex/England.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; Archive of the Jewish Community of Vienna/birth and marriage registry; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 479; www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.de.
Herbert Posch
