| Born: | 05-18-1914 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Sigmund [Zygmunt] LEWITUS, born on May 18th, 1914 in Tłumaczyk, Galicia/Austro-Hungarian Empire [later: Tłumacz/Poland, today: Tlumatsch|Тлумач/Ukraine] (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Tłumacz/Poland, citizenship 1938: Poland), sson of David Haliczer, née. Lewitus (1890-1942, clerk "Kanzleioberoffizial" in Tłumacz) and Lea Lewitus, née Haber (1890-1942), lived in Vienna's 14th [today: 15th] district, Oelweingasse 35/30, was last enrolled in the spring term of 1938 at the Medical School in the 5th and last year of his studies ("Absolutorium" was certified on November 15th, 1938).
After the Anschluss in 1938, he was forced to quit his studies and to leave the University of Vienna for racist reasons after the takeover of power of National-Socialism. But after numerous incertainties he could finally finish his studies and graduated on December 16th, 1938, but only with the discriminating ceremony of a "Nichtarierpromotion", which included at the same time that he was banned from his profession in the entire German Reich.
In 1938 he married in Vienna the tailor Feige Dworje Inslicht (1909-1964), also from Tłumacz. He had to flee Vienna and with the support of the emigration department of the Jewish Community he tried to emigrate to the USA, where his uncle Schojl-Mayer Haber and his cousin Schmiel Haber lived, or to Palestine, where his uncle Mojsche Haliczer and his cousin Schulim Streit lived in Tel Aviv. He did not succeed in the first run but was able to emigrate with his wife at least in time to the S.H.S. Kingdom/Yugoslavia, where they last lived in Split [Spalato/Croatia]. From there they came to Italy, where they were deported to an internment camp for foreign Jews in Lastebasse (near Vicenza/Venetia) on November 24th, 1941, and further to the camp in Enego on October 10th, 1942, from where they were released only on September 17th, 1943.
They later managed to emigrate to Palestine [Israel], where they then lived in Tel Aviv and where Zygmunt Lewitus worked, among other places, in the Beilinson Hospital in Pétah Tiqvà.
After the death of his first wife Feige, he married Esther Alzahar (d. 1982) in his second marriage.
Dr. Zygmunt Lewitus died at the age of 78 on February 25th, 1987 in Israel and is buried at Holon Cemetery, Holon/Israel.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938, graduation registry ("Promotionsprotokoll") MED 1931-1941 No 4266; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 429; POSCH 2009, 372; Who's Who in World Jewry, New York 1972 and Tel Aviv 1978; ; www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.de; www.myheritage.at; www.annapizzuti.it/database/ricerca.php?a=view&recid=5280; kind reference from Gerd Gabriel, Vienna 07/2023.
Herbert Posch
