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Margarete Deutsch

Born: 01-06-1914
Faculty: Philosophical School
Category: Expelled student
Margarete DEUTSCH, born on January 6th, 1914 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Oskar Deutsch (1884-1942, manufacturer) and Ilona Deutsch (née Feldmann, 1891-1942), lived in Vienna's 6th district, Gumpendorfer Strasse 93, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 4th and last year of her studies and took courses in English and German language and literature Studies. She registered for the final exams ("Rigorosen") on January 17th, 1938, but wasn't allowd to sit for them after the "Anschluss" in March 1938. After the takeover of power of National-Socialism she was forced to quit his her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna. Her younger brother Friedrich Deutsch [Frederick Dunston], who studied at the Philosophical School, too, was also expelled from the University of Vienna. He could emigrate in time to England/Great Britain and survived.

She was deported from Vienna's 2nd district, Czerningasse 8/20 to the Ghetto Litzmannstadt [Łódź]/Poland on October 28th, 1941 (Transport "Wien IV"), her parents Oskar and Ilona Deutsch were also deported to Łódź only a few days later on November 2nd, 1938, where her mother died on June 27th, 1942, and her father on July 3rd, 1942. Margarete Deutsch did not survive either and perished in the Shoah - her exact date of death is not yet known.

Lit.: Archive  of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938, final examination file and registry ("Rigorosenakt und -protokoll") PHIL 14121; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 374; BARANOWSKI 2004, 44; USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, University of Southern California, Interview 48610 of her brother, Frederic Dunston, from December 8th, 1998, London/Great Britain, interviewer: Marilyn Brunner); www.yadvashem.org [March 2006].


Herbert Posch


Nationale of Margarete Deutsch, fall term 1937/38 (1st form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Margarete Deutsch, fall term 1937/38 (1st form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Margarete Deutsch, fall term 1937/38 (2nd form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Margarete Deutsch, fall term 1937/38 (2nd form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Margarete Deutsch, spring termn 1938 (1st form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien

Nationale of Margarete Deutsch, spring term 1938 (1st form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien
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