Margarete Deutsch

Born:	01-06-1914
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Margarete DEUTSCH, born on January 6^th, 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 6^th district, Gumpendorfer Strasse 93, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 4^th 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 17^th, 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 2^nd district, Czerningasse 8/20 to the Ghetto Litzmannstadt [Łódź]/Poland on October 28^th, 1941 (Transport "Wien IV"), her parents Oskar and Ilona Deutsch were also deported to Łódź only a few days later on November 2^nd, 1938, where her mother died on June 27^th, 1942, and her father on July 3^rd, 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 8^th, 1998, London/Great Britain, interviewer: Marilyn Brunner); www.yadvashem.org [March 2006].

Herbert Posch