| Born: | 06-30-1913 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Mitzi STEINER, born on June 30th, 1913 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Emanuel Steiner (federal civil servant, 1875-1942) and Karoline/Kataline Steiner, née. Hermann (1875-1942), lived in Vienna's 2nd district, Nordbahnstrasse 28/9, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 5th and last year of her studies and received a scholarship from the Municipality of Vienna (25,- Schilling) (fall term 1937/38 was validated on February 7th, 1938).
Under National-Socialism, after the "Anschluss", she was forced to quit her studies and to leave the University of Vienna for racist reasons (leaving certificate ("Abgangszeugnis") was issued on July 13th, 1938).
She had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to the USA with Anna, one of her six sisters. Her oldest sister Margarete Noethling (b. 1904) was already in New York and Mitzi and Anna also managed to obtain visas for the U.S. at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna on September 12th, 1938, and so on December 25th, 1938, they were able to leave with the SS Pennland from Vlissingen/Netherlands to New York, NY, where they arrived on January 4th, 1939.
Mitzi Steiner could not continue her studies for the time being under the conditions of emigration. In the 1940 census she was living with her brother-in-law Karl Muetz and her sister Valerie Muetz (b. 1906, they had married in Vienna in 1929 and in 1935 their son Harry had also been born there), and her sisters Franziska/Frances (b. 1903), Anna (1909-1994, later m. Popper) and Herta Steiner (b. 1916) in the Bronx in New York in a shared apartment in rather poor circumstances - her brother-in-law worked as a machinist in a machine factory, she and her three unmarried sisters as finishers in the textile industry.
Her parents were unable to emigrate in time and were resettled in Jewish collective housing in Vienna and deported on June 5th, 1942 from Vienna's 2nd district, Praterstrasse 60/18, to Izbica in German-occupied Poland, the "waiting room" for the Belzec extermination camp. Both were murdered.
Mitzi Steiner later succeeded in emigrating to the USA to continue her studies or to complete them anew and to obtain a doctorate (Dr.med./M.D.).
She married Friedrich Eisner (1914-1996), born in Vienna, who had already emigrated to New York in 1933 and who served in the U.S. Army/Air Force from 1939 to 1963. On October 19, 1944, daughter Susan Carol was born in New York, NY (married Lewis B. Schiff 1969 in Santa Clara, CA) and on December 6th, 1949, her daughter Vivien Kay Eisner (married Charles A. Fiedler 1978 in Los Angeles, CA) was born in Bexar, TX, where her husband Friedrich Eisner was then stationed, having been stationed in Germany the year before. Until the early 1960s, the family lived at Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, Alabama/USA. Mitzi Eisner's last residence was in Palo Alto, California/USA.
Mitzi Eisner M.D., née Steiner, died on August 13th, 1989 in San Mateo County, CA/USA and is buried at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park in Colma, San Mateo County, CA/USA.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 483; www.genteam.at, www.ancestry.de, www.familysearch.org, www.myheritage.de; kind reference Mag. Brigitte Kutalek-Mitschitczek, Vienna 07/2022.
Herbert Posch
