| Born: | 08-14-1917 |
| Faculty: | Philosophical School |
| Category: | Expelled student |
Carl NACHMIAS, born on August 14th, 1917 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna, citizenship 1938: Austria), son of Moise/Moses Benjamin Nachmias (1870-1943, salesman unemployed) and Bella Nachmias, née Elias (1881-1942), lived in Vienna's 2nd district, Josef-Gall-Gasse 3/6. On June 21st, 1935, he had passed the school-leaving examination (Reifepruefung/Matura) at the Bundesgymnasium in Vienna's 3rd district, Kundmanngasse 22, and began to study classical philology at the University of Vienna. He was last enrolled in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 3rd year of his studies and took courses in classical philology and art history.
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.
He was able to emigrate in time and went to France. But his parents didn't succeed - his mother Bella Nachmias, b. 1881 in Sofia|София/Bulgaria, was deported from Vienna to Maly Trostinez near Minsk [Мінск/Belarus] in October 1942 and was murdered there shortly after arrival on October 9th, 1942; and his father Moise Benjamin Nachmias, b. 1870 in Rustschuk [Russe|Русе/Bulgaria], was deported from France to concentration camp Auschwitz [Oświęcim/Poland] and murdered there on February 16th, 1943.
Carl Nachmias was naturalized on February 22nd, 1947 and became a French citizen. He was married to Paris born Germaine Barthelmé (1903-1991), was a professor and lived in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s.
The exhibition "Ausgegrenzt, Vertrieben, Ermordet" (January 22nd - May 14th, 2010) at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna was dedicated to the memory of Carl Nachmias and 20 other former students focused on art history and expelled from the University of Vienna in 1938.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1935–1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 442; Exhibition "Ausgegrenzt, Vertrieben, Ermordet" 2010; www.ancestry.de; www.myheritage.at; www.doew.at; vng.yadvashem.org.
Herbert Posch
