| Born: | 09-28-1908 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Laura UNGAR (née MARGULIES), born on September 28th, 1908 in Gołogóry, Galicia (Austro-Hungarian Empire) [later Poland, today:Holohory|Гологори, Ukraine] (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), daughter of Oskar Margulies (civil servant, deceased) and Antonie Margulies (1881-1942), lived in Vienna's 20th district, Heinzelmanngasse 8/15. The parents had emigrated with their three children from Galicia to Vienna during World War I in 1914, where Laura Margulies completed her schooling. On October 12th, 1932, she passed her school-leaving examination (Matura) at the Bundesrealgymnasium Wien 14 and subsequently began studying at the University of Vienna in the fall term of 1932/33. She had married Friedrich Ungar, a native of Vienna, on December 18th, 1934, at the Vienna City Temple, but the marriage was divorced again as early as August 11th, 1935 - she retained the surname "Ungar," however.
She was last enrolled in the fall term of 1937/38 at the Philosophical School in the 4th and last year of her studies and took courses in German and English language and literature Studies.
She had registered for the viva on December 6th, 1937, passed the first viva on January 21st, 1938, the "Absolutorium" was certified on February 2nd, 1938, but then the graduation procedure broke down. She could not complete her almost finished studies in times of National Socialism for racist reasons.
She had worked as an acountant in addition to her studies and - although she had never gone to the Spanish Civil War, but had only worked in the transport organization - was arrested on March 12th, 1937, but was released after some time.
She had to flee Austria in 1938 and managed to leave the country in time in June 1938, with unknown country of emigration.
Her younger brother Heinrich Margulies (1910-1972), who had studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, was still able to successfully pass the Second State Examination in Architecture on May 30th, 1938, before he had to leave Vienna and was able to emigrate first to Prague, Czechoslovakia, and then on to England in November 1938.
Her older sister Bettina (1903-1942) and her mother Antonie Margulies (1881-1942) did not manage to escape in time, and they were deported from Vienna to the ghetto in Litzmannstadt/Lodz in November 1941 and from there on to the Kulmhof/Chełmno extermination camp in German occupied Poland, where they were murdered on September 12th, 1942.
Laura Ungar survived and returned to Vienna in 1946, continued to live in Vienna at least until the early 1960s, and from the mid-1970s at the latest in the GDR, in East Berlin.
Laura Ungar, née Magulies, died on November 12th, 1987 in Berlin/Germany.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938, final examination files and registry ("Rigorosenakt und -protokoll") PHIL No. 14027; Arolsen Archives; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 491; EBNER/MIKOLETZKY/WIESER 2017, 29; DOEW|Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, database Austrian Victims of the Holocaust; www.genteam.at.
Herbert Posch
