Sigmund Eckhaus

Born:	11-17-1912
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Sigmund ECKHAUS, born on November 17^th, 1912 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Elias (Elkune) Eckhaus (1880-1934, merchant) and Taube Eckhaus, née Marhoffer (1880-1942), lived in Vienna's 20^th district, Gaussplatz 7, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 4^th year of his studies. 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 (Leaving Certificate issued on June 22^nd, 1938). His mother Taube Eckhaus could not escape from Vienna in time and was deported from Vienna's 2nd, Zirkusgasse 10/16 to Izbica on May 12th, 1942 and murdered. Sigmund Eckhaus and his brother Fritz (1919-1942) were able to escape from Vienna in time and reached Belgium and lived in Brussels as furtailor and jeweller, where they were captured and interned in the SS-Sammellager Mecheln [Mechelen|Malines/Belgium] in the Dossin barracks. From there, Fritz was deported to the German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz [Oswiecim/Poland] on August 25^th, 1942, and Sigmund Eckhaus on October 24^th, 1942, where they were murdered.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 376; DOeW 2001; www.yadvashem.org [March 2006], cited there: Testimony sent to the Shoah-Foundation by a cousin in April 1977; www.genteam.at.

Herbert Posch