Nellie Bloch (Nely Blochová)

Born:	04-13-1908
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Nellie BLOCH (Nely BLOCHOVà), born on April 13^th, 1908 in Prague/Czechoslovakia [Praha/Czech Republic] (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Prague/Czechoslovakia, Citizenship 1938: Czechoslovakia), daughter of I. Bloch (teacher), lived in Vienna's 9^th district, Kolingasse 6, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 4^th year of her studies (fall term 1937/38 was validated on February 21^st, 1938).

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 (Leaving Certificate ('Abgangszeugnis') was issued on March 21^st, 1938. She was deported from Prague II, Ve Smečkách 7 to Ghetto Theresienstadt [Terezín/Czech Republic] on July 2^nd, 1942, and on September 6^th, 1943, she was deported from there to the German concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz [Oświęcim/Poland], where she was murdered.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; Archiv; Arolsen Archives/Ghetto Theresienstadt Card Files RefNo 11422001; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 365; www.yadvashem.org, cited there: Terezinska Pametni Kniha/Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch, Terezinska Iniciativa, vol. I-II, Prague 1995, vol. III, Prague 2000.

Herbert Posch