Louis Byk

Born:	04-18-1913
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Louis BYK, born on April 18^th, 1913 in Czernowitz/Romania [Tscherniwzi/Ukraine] (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Karl Byk (merchant), lived in Vienna's 20^th district, Klosterneuburger Strasse 84/10, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 3^rd year of his studies. 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 (Leaving Certificate ('Abgangszeugnis') was issued on June 22^nd, 1938). He was deported to Auschwitz [Oswiecim/Poland] in 1942, where he died on September 29^th, 1942.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 371; DOeW 2001; www.yadvashem.org [March 2006], cited there: Auschwitz Death Registers, The State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942, 33217.

Herbert Posch