Berta Amstetter (geb. Smal Broch, verh. Kaufman)

Born:	09-07-1913
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Berta AMSTETTER (nee Beile Broche, recte SMAL BROCH, later married KAUFMAN), born on September 7^th, 1913 in Sandowitz-Zedowice, Upper Silesia/German Empire [Żędowice//Poland (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Lucy Broch (cosmetician), lived in Vienna 9^th district, Liechtensteinstraße 20/12.
Berta Amstetter was enrolled finally in spring term 1937 in the 5^th and last year of his studies ('Absolutorium' was certified on July 18^th, 1938) and was preparing for the final exams ('Rigorosen') in 1938. She could finally finish her medical studies and graduated on July 21^st, 1938, but only with the discriminating ceremony of a "Nichtarierpromotion", which included at the same time that she was banned from her profession. She got married to her american fellow student Samuel KAUFMAN (born 1912), who also graduated on July 21^st, 1938 with the discriminating ceremony of a "Nichtarierpromotion". He as an American citizen had to declare that he is not willing to practice as a physician in the German Reich. They emigrated together in August 1938 to the USA.

Lit: POSCH 2009, 371; Archive of the University of Vienna/Enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED, Protocol of Promotions; information from  Maria Czwik and Barbara Sauer, Vienna 12/2015; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022.

Katharina Kniefacz and Herbert Posch