| Born: | 09-30-1912 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Frieda ZUCKERMANN, born on September 30th, 1912 in Stanislau, Galicia/Austria-Hungary [later: Stanisławów/Poland, today: Ivano-Frankivsk|Івано-Франківськ/Ukraine] (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), daughter of Isak Zuckermann (jewel agent) had moved with her parents to Vienna in 1914 and lived in Vienna's 3rd district, Apostelgasse 36. After her school-leaving examination (Reifepruefung/Matura), she had also graduated from the Teacher Training College in Vienna's 1st district, Hegelgasse 14, and obtained a teaching license for elementary schools, after which she began to study medicine at the University of Vienna. She was last enrolled in the 5th and last year at the School of Medicine in the spring term of 1938.
Under National Socialism, after the Anschluss, she was forced for racist reasons to abandon her almost completed studies and leave the University of Vienna. She had to flee Austria and tried to emigrate to Palestine, the USA or Australia. Finally, she managed to emigrate to England/Great Britain on May 14, 1939. Her mother stayed behind in Vienna, her father and sister were able to emigrate to Belgium.
After her arrival in England, Frieda Zuckermann worked as a probationer nurse at Loughborough General Hospital. On the intervention of Reverend Crane, Bardon Hill Vicarage, Leicestershire, she was exempted from the regulations of internment as an "enemy alien" in 1940. She was able to continue working as a nurse at the District Hospital and Hackney Hospital London and, after passing the nurse's examination in London on November 26th, 1943, she became a State Registered Nurse and later also became a British citizen.
Lit: Archive of the University of Vienna/National MED 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 504; kind reference by Ilsemarie Walter, Vienna 2017; Ilsemarie WALTER, Die Emigration (zukünftiger) Pflegepersonen aus Österreich 1938/39, in: Daniela Angetter, Birgit Nemec, Herbert Posch, Christine Druml u. Paul Weindling, eds, Structures and Networks. Medizin und Wissenschaft in Wien 1848-1955, Goettingen 2018, 621; www.ancestry.de; www.myheritage.com.
Herbert Posch
