| Born: | 02-12-1914 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Ernst LEDERER, born on February 12th, 1914 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Dr. Otto Lederer (1881-1944/5, chief physician of the Austrian railway Company OeBB) and Adele Dora Lederer, née Wottizki (1893-1944/5), lived in Vienna's 10th district, Triester Strasse 17, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 4th year of his studies.
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna (leaving certificate/"Abgangszeugnis" was issued on July 13th, 1938).
He had to flee Vienna and managed to go first to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he obtained a visa for the USA in April 1938 and then emigrated to the USA via Rotterdam on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam, arriving in New York, NY on October 18th, 1938.
His parents were deported from Vienna's 2nd district, Lilienbrunngasse 2/19 to Theresienstadt on October 1st, 1942, and two years later transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp on October 19th, 1944, which they did not survive
Ernst Lederer initially worked as a bookseller in New York, served in the U.S. Army from March 1941 to September 1943, and then was still able to complete his medical studies and became a doctor.
He changed his first name to "Howard E." Lederer and became a U.S. citizen in 1943. He moved across the Hudson River to New Jersey and worked at Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pequannock, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Paterson, Bergen Pines Hospital in Paramus and Holy Name in Teaneck. He was married to M. Chloe Harvey of Hackensack and they had two sons, Robert of Madison, Wisconsin and Joel of Port Charlotte, Florida.
He died on February 17th, 1987 in Rochelle Park, Hackensack, NJ/USA.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 427; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2023; Ellis Island passenger lists; DOeW-victims database; obituary in The News (Paterson, NJ), February 19th, 1987, 16; kind reference Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 09/2019 and from Dr. Robert Lackner Graz 03/2023.
Herbert Posch
