Aurelia Frenkel (verh. Fund)
| Born: |
11-25-1915 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Aurelia FRENKEL (married: FUND), born on November 25
th, 1915 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of David Frenkel (born on April 6
th, 1887 in Buczacz/Poland, merchant, owner of a shop for car components in Vienna 7
th district, Neustiftgasse 36) and his wife Esther Frenkel, nee Reiss (born on April 1
st, 1884 in Adamovka/Poland), lived in Vienna 7
th district, Mechitaristengasse 5, until März 24
th, 1938, then in Kellermanngasse 8/6.
She was enrolled finally in spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 5
th and last year of her studies and took courses in Pharmaceutics and Chemistry.
Her first attempt to leave Austria for Switzerland illegally failed in the end of 1938. But Aurelia Frenkel soon got all required documents to emigrate to Switzerland legally. She moved on to Scotland/Great Britain, where she first worked as a maid, but later could continue her pharmazeutical studies in Glasgow and even graduate there. She married Charles Fund (1908-2003) and together they emigrated to the USA. In 1949 their daughter Claire was born.
The property of her parents David and Esther Frenkel – the shop for car components, the warehouse and an apartment house in Vienna 5
th district, Schönbrunnerstrasse 19, was confiscated and "aryanized" in 1942. Aurelia Frenkel‘s brother Otto emigrated to Montreal/Canada, her parents followed via Rome/Italy and Rio de Janiero/Brazil. After the war father and son opened a business together in Montreal. Aurelia‘s older sister Emily Frenkel, who had emigrated to Scotland in 1938, later followed her family to Montreal.
Aurelia Frenkel died on September 16
th, 2009, in Brookline/Massachusetts/USA and is burried in Sharon Memorial Park Sharon, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA.
Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 368, 389; FRITSCH 2007; Archiv der Universität Wien/Nationale PHIL 1937-1938; information by Mag. Lucinda Schmatz-Rieger, Vienna, 2013; Jewish Heritage Collection (Charleston): Oral History-Interview mit ihrer Tochter Claire Fund, 26. October 2005.
Herbert Posch
