| Born: | 04-16-1913 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Laura LORBER, born on April 16th, 1913 in Tarnopol, Galicia/Austro-Hungarian Empire [later: Poland, today: Ternopil|Тернопіль/Ukraine] (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Chaim Lorber (salesman), lived in Vienna's 2nd district, Schoenngasse 16/75, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 5th and last year of her studies.
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism she was forced to quit her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna (Leaving Certificate ("Abgangszeugnis") was issued on July 5th, 1938).
She still had two brothers who were already working independently in the (dental) medical field - the elder Moses Lorbeer (born 1906 Tarnopol) as a dentist and the younger Albert Lorbeer (1917-2005), already born in Vienna, as a dental technician, who, like Laura Lorbeer and her parents, had to flee Austria and all were still able to emigrate to Great Britain in time. Laura Lorber lived and worked in the census in September 1939 in the the Home for aged Jews at 105, Nightingale Lane, Wandsworth, London, England, as an assistant nurse - she held the academic degree "Dr.med" at that time, although it is unclear how and where she was still able to complete her studies in England. In 1940 she lived with her parents at 70 Evering Road, Hackney, London.
Escaping Nazi persecution in Austria to England, she was killed, only 27 years old, in a German air raid on London on October 13th, 1940 at 157/161 Stoke Newington Road along with her parents in London - all three were buried at East Ham Jewish Cemetery, London Borough of Newham, Greater London, England.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 431; www.ancestry.de; www.MyHeritage.at; kind reference from Edith Heller, Vienna 09/2022.
Herbert Posch
