Paul Zwick

Born:	11-06-1913
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Paul ZWICK, born on November 6^th, 1913 in Vienna/Austro-Hungarian Empire [Austria], entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Moses Zwick (merchant) and Frieda/Freide Zwick, née Uri, lived in Vienna's 2^nd district, Obere Donaustrasse 49, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 4^th year of his studies. In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reasons and to leave the University of Vienna (Leaving Certificate ("Abgangszeugnis") was issued on May 17^th, 1938). Paul Zwick was able to flee Vienna in time and escape to Switzerland for the time being, where he was able to complete his medical studies at the University of Lausanne and earn his medical doctoral degree "M.D." in 1939. On April 13^th 1939, he was also able to obtain his U.S. visa at the Zurich consulate and travelled to England/Great Britain where he married Adolfine "Dina" Ascher (1911-1994), a refugee from Romania, in Surrey, Greater London N.W., England, on July 7^th, 1939 and emigrated to the U.S. shortly thereafter: He sailed on the SS Ile de France from Southampton/England on July 16^th, 1939 and arrived in New York City, NY in the U.S. on July 21^st, 1939. His mother Frieda (1888-1944) and his sister Fanni (1917-1944) were not able to escape from Vienna in time and were deported from a Jewish collective apartment in Vienna's 1^st district, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Platz 2, to the Kielce ghetto near Warsaw on February 19^th, 1941 and on its dissolution in August 1942 from there on to the Treblinka extermination camp in German-occupied Poland where they were murdered in 1944. Paul A. Zwick was able to take up a fellowship in child psychiatry in Philadelphia in the USA and have his Swiss diploma recognized. He moved to Rochester, NY in 1948, where he joined the Rochester Child Guidance Center as director and opened a private psychiatric practice, but also taught and did research at the Medical School of the University of Rochester. But he was also active as a singer in the Rochester Oratorio Society, the Eastman Rochester Chorus, Fairport Musicale and the Temple B'rith Kodesh. With a wife Dina, he had two daughters, Linda Shapiro (Rochester, NY) and Rebecca Zwick (Lawrencehill, NJ) and lived and worked with his family as a physician in Rochester, NY/USA and was a member of the American Psychiatric Association. Paul A. Zwick died on February 4^th, 1996 in Rochester, Monroe, NY/USA.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937–1938; Archive of the Jewish Community of Vienna, birth records; U.S. National Archives Washington D.C./Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Group 36/Passenger Lists; U.S. Nationals Archives Philadelphia, PA/Declarations of Intentions for Citizenship; General Register Office, London/England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 505; www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.de; www.findbuch.at.

Herbert Posch