Friedrich (Frederick) Deutsch (Dunston)
| Born: |
05-29-1917 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Friedrich DEUTSCH (later: Frederick DUNSTON), born on May 29
th, 1917 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Oskar Deutsch (1884-1942, manufacturer) and Ilona Deutsch (née Feldmann, 1891-1942) and lived in Vienna's 6
th district, Gumpendorfer Strasse 93. He passed the high school leaving certificate ("Matura"/"Reifepruefung") in 1935 at the Bundesgymnasium in Vienna and then attended the one-year postgraduate course at the Vienna Commercial Academy and then briefly joined his father's business. Soon after, however, he began to study chemistry at the University of Vienna and was enrolled finally in the spring term of 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 1
st year of his studies and took courses in Chemistry and Physics.
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.
His elder sister
Margarete Deutsch, who studied at the Philosophical School, too, was also expelled from the University of Vienna in 1938.
He had to flee from Vienna and was able to emigrate to Great Britain in time in March 1939 via Holland and Dover and lived and worked as farming instructor at
Great Engham Manor in Tenterden, Kent, England. After the Second Worls War began, he was interned as enemy alien in
Kitchener Camp, Sandwich, Kent and released in December 1940.
His sister Margarete and his parents parents Oskar and Ilona Deutsch were deported from Vienna's 2
nd district, Czerningasse 8/20 to the Ghetto Litzmannstadt [Łódź]/Poland on October 28
th, 1941 resp. on November 2
nd, 1938, where his mother died on June 27
th, 1942, and his father on July 3
rd, 1942 and also his sister did not survive and perished in the Shoah.
Friedrich Deutsch married Liese Rubner (1920-?) in spring 1951 in Wandersworth, London, and they had two sons, John and Colin. They lived with in the 1950ies in London-Streatham, Christchurch Road 96.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 373; USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, University of Southern California, Interview 48610 from December 8th, 1998, London/Great Britain, interviewer: Marilyn Brunner); www.yadvashem.org.
Herbert Posch
