Elisabeth Maria May (Dickinson)

Born:	11-17-1918
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
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Elisabeth Maria MAY (married DICKINSON), born on November 17^th, 1918 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Gross-Schweinbarth/Lower Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Dr. Richard May (physician in Gross-Schweinbarth/Lower Austria), lived in Vienna's 18^th district, Martinstrasse 14, in 1938 in Vienna's 2^nd district, Taborstrasse 51 and then in Vienna's 6^th district, Strohmeyergasse 6, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 2^nd 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 November 7^th, 1938). Her father was fired in 1938 for racist reasons as a community doctor and lost his pension. Her sister Gertrude May (later: McMahon) and her parents escaped from Austria on July 19^th, 1939 and made a detour to Australia, where they arrived in Brisbane with the SS David Crocket on December 11^th, 1945. In August 1951 he became Australian citizen and lived near Sydney until the late 1950s. Whether Elizabeth Maria Dickinson (née May) could also emigrate to Australia - or another country of exile - has not yet been decided.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED 1937-1938; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022, information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 09/2019.

Herbert Posch