Karl Citron

Born:	05-24-1915
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Karl CITRON, born on May 24^th, 1915 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Mag. David Citron (pharmacist, deceased in 1921) and Anna Citron, lived in Vienna's 5^th district, Margaretenstrasse 166, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 4^th and last year of his studies and took courses in Pharmaceutics and Chemistry. In 1938 he was forced to quit his studies and to leave the University of Vienna for racist reason after the takeover of power of National-Socialism. The family owned pharmacy "Zur Maria Heil der Kranken" in Vienna's 12^th district, Albrechtsbergergasse 25, was expropriated very quickly after the "Anschluss" by a National Socialist employee ("aryanized") and Karl Citron, his mother Anna and his sister Mag. Margarethe Citron (born in 1912 later married Margaret Citron Fisher) had to flee Vienna.
They were able to emigrate on the steamboat "SS President Harding" from Hamburg to the USA on September 14^th, 1938, and they arrived in New York City on September 24^th, 1938. Karl Citron and his family later were naturalized and became American citizens. From the USA, his mother was able to achieve in the postwar period only in tedious processes gradually the refund of the looted pharmacy but never returned to Austria and sold the pharmacy in 1950.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/Enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 372; Alfred Fehringer, Arisierung und Rueckstellung von Apotheken in Oesterreich, Goettingen 2013, 175-177, 237; Ellis Island passager database.

Herbert Posch