Alexander Blumenfeld
| Born: |
10-30-1919 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Alexander BLUMENFELD, born on October 30
th, 1919 in Szászvár/Hungary (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Szászvár, Citizenship 1938: Hungary), son of Daniel Blumenfeld (cantor), lived in Vienna's 2
nd district, Haidgasse 15/I/5. In 1937 he had passed the school-leaving examination (Matura) at the Bundesgymnasium in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria and in the fall term of 1937/38 began to study at the Philosophical School in the 1
st year of his studies and took courses in English language and literature Studies and Psychology.
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.
Alexander Blumenfeld perished in the Shoah in German-occupied Stary Oskol/Soviet Union [Ста́рый Оско́л/Russia] according to his father's testimony in Yad Vashem.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 366; Yad Vashem | Shoah Victims' Names [March 2006], cited there: testimony, sent to the Shoah-Foundation by his father in July 1957.
Herbert Posch
