Margit Alice Bardach-Chlumberg (Halsey)
| Born: |
05-07-1918 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Margit Alice BARDACH-CHLUMBERG (later married HALSEY), born on May 7th, 1918 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria) as the daughter of Hermann Bardach Chlumberg (born in 1880, lawyer) and his wife Josefine, lived in Vienna 8th district, Skodagasse 21. After she had graduated from high school, she began to study at the University of Vienna in fall term 1936/37. She was finally enrolled in spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 2nd year of her studies and took courses in Chemistry.
Margit Alice Bardach-Chlumberg had to break off her studies after the „Anschluss“. She emigrated from Austria on March 28th, 1939 and arrived in Australia on May 4th, 1939. Both of her parents became victims of the shoah.
In Australia Bardach-Chlumberg initially worked as a housemaid and as a pharmacist's assistant from 1939 to 1940. In 1940 she began as a trainee nurse at the Training School for Nurses at Prince Henry Hospital in Little Bay, Sydney, and received her diploma on June, 20th, 1944.
Margit Alice Bardach-Chlumberg received the Australian citizenship and worked as a nurse. She married Thomas Hans Halsey (formerly Halasi, born on June 21st, 1913 in Vienna, alumni of the
'Hochschule für Bodenkultur' in Vienna – today University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences), who had emigrated from Vienna in 1939, too. Together with her husband Margit Alice Halsey lived in Ainslie, a suburb of Canberra/Australia, and from 1959 to 1961 temporarily in the Federal Republic of Germany, where Thomas Hans Halsey worked as a Commonwealth public servant.
On November 20th, 1956, she made an application for compensation at the "Fonds zur Hilfeleistung an politisch Verfolgte, die ihren Wohnsitz und ständigen Aufenthalt im Ausland haben" (Hilfsfonds). but soon retracted, because her husband had also submitted an application. On January 4th, 1963, she made a new application for compensation for the loss in her education.
After her husband Thomas Hans Halsey had died on November 2nd, 1974, she moved to Curtin, another suburb of Canberra. She made another application at the „Fonds zur Hilfeleistung an politisch Verfolgte (Hilfsfonds)“ on March 3rd, 1977, but it was rejected in 1979.
Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 358; information from Barbara Sauer, Vienna 11/2015; Austrian State Archive/Archiv der Republik/06-Finanzen/Hilfsfonds; SAUER/REITER-ZATLOUKAL 2010, 83 [Dr. Hermann Bardach-Chlumberg]; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022.
Katharina Kniefacz
