Ella Flaum (Féher)

Born:	07-12-1904
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled teacher

Ella FLAUM (nee FÉHER), born on July 12^th, 1904 in Körtvélyes/Hungary [Pama/Burgenland] (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria) as the daughter of Dr. Samuel Fehér (physician) and his wife Sidonie nee Hirschl, died around 1977 in Australia, was in March 1938 research assistant ('wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin') at the Pharmacological Institute of the Medical School of the University of Vienna. She was persecuted in times of Nazism as a Jew, lost her position and was thrown out of the university in March 1938.   ( more detailled biography only in >>> German - to be translated soon )

Lit.: information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 2015; Austrian State Archive/Archiv der Republik/06-Finanzen/Hilfsfonds; Research With Soils And Drugs. In: The Advertiser (Adelaide), 7.3.1939, 6; Norman BENTWICH, The Rescue and Achievement of Refugee Scholars. The Story of Displaced Scholars and Scientists 1933-1952. The Hague 1953; Ella Flaum, in: Migration Museum Adelaide; Birth certificate of Ernst Flaum, in: Migration Museum Adelaide; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022.

Katharina Kniefacz