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Rachel Sperber

Born: 02-27-1911
Faculty: Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category: Expelled student
Rachel SPERBER, born on February 27th, 1911 in Kolomea/Poland [Kolomyja/Ukraine] (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Jakob Sperber (salesman), lived in Wien 2, Stuwerstraße 46/7, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 5th year of her studies. 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 She was deported from Vienna 2nd district, Grosse Sperlgasse 37a/16 to Maly Trostinec/Belarus on September 14th, 1942 and died there on September 18th, 1942.
Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 385; Archive of the University of Vienna/Enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; DÖW 2001; www.yadvashem.org [March 2006].


Herbert Posch


Nationale of Rachel Sperber, fall term 1937/38 (1st form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Rachel Sperber, fall term 1937/38 (1st form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien
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