Wilhelm Krumholz

Born:	08-20-1915
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Wilhelm KRUMHOLZ, born on August 20th, 1915 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Josef Krumholz (kfm.Angestellter), lived in Vienna 3rd district, Hetzgasse 11, was enrolled finally  in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 4th year of his studies. He emigrated to Switzerland and later to the USA. His parents were deported from their apartment in Vienna 3rd district, Hetzgasse 11 to Daruvar [Croatia] on August 4th, 1941. Josef Krumholz was further transported to Jasenovac, where he died. Fani Krumholz was first transported to Loborgrad and thenm further to Auschwitz [Oswiecim/Poland], where she died. Wilhelm Krumholz died on December 16th, 2002 at the age of 87, in Bohemia, Suffolk County, New York.

More detailed biography only in >>> German - to be translated soon.

Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 424; USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, University of Southern California, Interview 39915 (March 22nd, 1998, Bohemia/USA, Interviewer: Marc Schimsky); information from Dr. Gabriele Bergner, Teltow near Berlin, 2015; Staatsarchiv Basel, Dossier PD Reg. 3a 30164 A Jüdische Flüchtlinge; Wilhelm Vilem Krumholz in prabook.org; ancientfaces.com; Realgymnasium Stubenbastei, Maturajahrgang 1934; Kurt SELIGER [Cousin], Basel-Badischer Bahnhof. In der Schweizer Emigration 1938-1945, Wien 1987; Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW): Austrian Victims of the Holocaust (Josef and Fani Mutter Krumholz); KNIEFACZ/POSCH 2017a.

Katharina Kniefacz