Golda Fischer [Joslyn]

Born:	03-28-1913
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Golda FISCHER, born on March 28^th, 1913 in Rohatyn/Poland (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Joel Fischer (merchant), lived in Vienna 9^th ditrict, Glasergasse 11/11, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 3^rd year of her studies. After the "Anschluss" in March 1938, she had to stop her studies for racist reasons and leave the University of Vienna. She had to flee Austria and was able to emigrate to Great Britain in 1938, then to the United States in 1940.
Golda Fischer married Maynard Alexander Joslyn (1904-1985, food technician) and became a doctor, author and university teacher. In Great Britain she could continue her medical studies at the University of South Wales and Cardiff and received her doctorate ("M.D.") in Berkeley in 1943.
Golda Joslyn lived in the United States from 1940, doing research in 1944 at the Babies' Hospital in Philadelphia and in 1945 at Queens General Hospital in New York. From 1945 she worked at the Children's Hospital and from 1947 at the Berkeley General Hospital in Francisco Bay, Professor of Food Technology at the UCLA in Berkeley. From 1946 to 1948 she was a member of the Maternal and Child Welfare Clinic, from 1960 pediatrician at Alameda County Hospital, conducted a private practice and wrote contributions for Jewish and medical journals. She was e.g. member of the Hadassah and corresponding member of the Israelite Medical Association. Golda Joslyn died on August 6^th, 1992 in San Francisco, California / USA.

Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 383; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 2017; GOLD 1971; MÜLLER 1996; BLUMESBERGER 2002, Bd. 1, 323; KOROTIN 2016, 827; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022.

Herbert Posch