Franziska (Frances) Dubsky (Alt Weinman)

Born:	01-21-1916
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Franziska DUBSKY (Frances ALT, Frances WEINMAN), born on January 21^st, 1916 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Alfred Dubsky (1875-1949, merchant) and Kamila Dubsky, née Pollak (1888-195?), lived in Vienna's 6^th district, Stumpergasse 51/10, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 3^rd year of her studies. In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism she was forced to quit her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna (Leaving Certificate ("Abgangszeugnis") was issued on May 6^th, 1938). She had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to England/Great Britain in time, where she received a U. S. entry visa in London on October 20, 1939. From Southampton, England, she traveled to the U.S. on November 15, 1939, on the SS President Harding, arriving in New York City, NY, on Novmber 24, 1939.
She then moved to Chicago where her uncle Gustav J. Pollak, a brother of her mother, lived and where later her parents also emigrated. Franziska Dubsky married Heinrich (Henry) Alt (1914-1960), a technical chemistry student who had been expelled from Vienna and from technical college, on December 24, 1939, in Chicago, IL, with whom she had two children, George Alt (b. 1942) and Judy Lichterman.
Franziska Dubsky, now Frances Alt, became a U. S. citizen in January 1945. Her husband Henry Alt died in a fire in his chemical laboratory in 1960. In January 1977 she married Frank (Franz) Weinman (1914-2009) in Skokie, IL/USA in her second marriage, who was also expelled from Vienna. Frances Weinmann, née Franziska Dubsky, widowed Alt, died on February 2^nd, 2003 at the age of 87 in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa, CA/USA.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 375; Paulus Ebner, Juliane Mikoletzky u. Alexandra Wieser, "Abgelehnt" ... "Nicht tragbar" Verfolgte Studierende und Angehörige der TH in Wien nach dem "Anschluß" 1938, Vienna 2017, 57; information from Philipp Kafka, Vienna 11/2021; www.genteam.at; www.geni.com; www.ancestry.de.

Herbert Posch