| Born: | 11-28-1914 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Josef EISENBERG, born on November 28th, 1914 in Budapest, Hungary/Austro-Hungarian Empire (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Abraham/Adolf Eisenberg (1887–1968, merchant/lumber trade) and Czarne Eisenberg, née Kandel (1889–?). Although the parents had already moved to Vienna in 1912, the father had served as a deputy officer in the Imperial and Royal Army in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Budapest/Hungary, respectively, from 1912 to 1921 and the family did not finally live in Vienna's 2nd district, Am Tabor 18/12a, until 1921. Josef Eisenberg studied medicine at the University of Vienna and was last enrolled in the fall term 1937/38 at the Medical School in the 4th year of his studies.
He was forced to quit his studies and leave the University of Vienna for racist reasons under National Socialism after the Anschluss (Leaving Certificate ('Abgangszeugnis') was issued on May 17th, 1938).
He had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to Great Britain in time, where he lived together with mother Czarné (1889–?), brother Egon (1917–1994) and sister Gertrude (Dvorkin, 1920–2016) in Hackney, London in 1939 and he had to earn money as a hatter's apprentice. They were later interned as enemy aliens and deported to Canada (Josef Eisenberg on July 3rd, 1940 on board of the SS Hettrick) and were not able to return to Great Britain until 1941/42 (Josef Eisenberg on February 25th, 1942).
Later both he and his parents and siblings emigrated further to the USA and he became a US citizen on August 17th, 1954.
He died in June 1983 in New York, NY/USA.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937–1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 377; www.ancestry.de, www.myheritage.com.
Herbert Posch
