Elisabeth Frankl
| Born: |
07-09-1915 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Elisabeth FRANKL, born on July 9
th, 1915 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Heinrich Frankl (1868-1944, merchant) an Gisela, née Schlesinger (1883-1942), lived in Vienna's 2
nd district, Obere Donaustrasse 65, was enrolled finally in the fall term 1937/38 at the Philosophical School in the 2
nd year of her studies and took courses in English and Romance languages and literature Studies.
She had registered for the final exams (viva voce) on October 8
th, 1937 and passed the first viva on October 30
th, 1937, but the examination procedure was interrupted.
In the spring term of 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism in March 1938, she requested to continue her studies in the context of the 2%-Numerus clausus of Jewish Students but was rejected was forced to quit her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.
Her brother
Paul Frankl (1909-1944) had studied medicine at the University of Vienna and was still able to graduate in 1938, but only in the context of a discriminatory "non-Aryan doctorate" with which a professional ban was associated throughout the Third Reich.
Elisabeth Frankl had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to England/Great Britain in time, where she lived in Tavistock, Devon, in 1939. Presumably she emigrated at the end of December 1939 from Southampton/England with the
SS Oronsay further to Palestine [Israel].
Her parents, her brother and his wife were deported from Vienna's 2
nd district, Novaragasse 40/17, to the Theresienstadt ghetto [Terezín/Czech Republic] on September 10
th, 1942, where her mother perished; the other three were deported from there to the Auschwitz [Oświęcim/Poland] concentration camp and murdered on October 19
th, 1944.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; final examination regitry and -file ("Rigorosenakt und -protokoll") PHIL 13762; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 386; Yad Vashem | Shoah Victims' Names; Arolsen Archives; www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.de.
Herbert Posch
