Heinrich (Henry Joseph) Glas (Grant)
| Born: |
09-29-1912 |
| Faculty: |
Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Heinrich GLAS (later: Henry Joseph GRANT), born on September 29
th, 1912 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Dr. Ernst Glas (1872-1944, lawyer) and Anna Josefa Glas, née Dinzl (1886-?), lived in Vienna's 7
th district, Kaiserstrasse 77, was a member of the zionist scholar fraternity "Massada" and was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 5
th and last year of his studies.
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason. In the spring term of 1938 he was one of the few who were allowed to continue their studies in the context of the 2% Numerus clausus of Jewish Students until the end of the term (spring term 1938 was validated on September 5
th, 1938). But in the end he was forced to leave the University of Vienna without graduation (Leaving Certificate ("Abgangszeugnis") was issued on November 14
th, 1938).
He had to flee Vienna and was able to leave for Switzerland, where he lived in Lausanne and was able to complete his medical studies and to graduate before being sent to an internment camp there. He then emigrated to the USA only after the end of the Second World War on the
SS Queen Mary, which left Southampton/England at the end of July and arrived in New York, NY/USA on August 5
th, 1947, where he also completed his medical training with a medical internship at
New York Hospital.
His father Dr. Ernst Glas, who had been working as a lawyer in Vienna since 1905 with an office in Vienna's 9
th district, Kolingasse 11, was forced to close his law practice for racist reasons in 1938 and was deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt [Terezín/Czech Republic] on July 22
nd, 1942, where he died on February 2
nd, 1944. Heinrich Glas' mother and his older sister Elisabeth were able to emigrate to England in time on a domestic-permit and survived.
Heinrich Glas moved to California, trained as a psychiatrist for three years at
Sawtelle Veteran Hospital in Westwood, California, and then lived and worked as a psychiatrist in Beverly Hills near Los Angeles, where on December 19
th, 1949, he married Swiss-born Antoinette B. Jason (born October 8
th, 1925, in St. Gallen, Switzerland), who had already emigrated to the United States in February 1941 and become a U.S. citizen on January 5
th, 1948 (divorce in 1955). They had a daughter, Catherine Mann, née Glas.
He himself became a U.S. citizen on January 12
th, 1951, and became a professor of neuropsychiatry at the
University of Southern California where he worked for more than 30 years and was also a court appointed psychiatrist for the
Los Angeles Superior Court.
He was an avid boxer, tennis player, and skier, and a member of the
National Ski Patrol and the
Far Western Medical Association, an organization that combined enthusiasm for skiing with furthering research for physichians. An accompished violinist, he helped founding the
Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra.
In 1992, he settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico/USA.
Henry Joseph Grant, née Heinrich Glas, died on December 24
th, 2007 in Santa Fe, New Mexico/USA.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 392; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 152; Robert C. DAILEY, Resilience. A Journey from Fear to Freedom: Henry J. Grant, MD, Kindle Ebook 2014; obituary in Santa Fe New Mexican from December 29th, 2007; www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.at; DOeW|Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, database Austrian Victims of the Holocaust; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 10/2021, and from Dr. Gregor Gatscher-Riedl, Perchtoldsdorf, 02/2022.
Herbert Posch
