Emmy Knopf
| Born: |
01-03-1917 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Emmy KNOPF, born on January 3
rd, 1917 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Leopold and Frieda Knopf, lived in Vienna's 15
th district, Mariahilfer Strasse 150, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 3
rd year of her studies and took courses in German language and literature Studies and History.
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he she was forced to quit her studies for racist reason - her application for further studies under the Numerus clausus for Jewish students in the summer semester of 1938 was rejected - and to leave the University of Vienna
Emmy Knopf was unable to escape from Vienna in time and was deported on June 14
th, 1942 from Vienna's 9
th district, Gruenentorgasse 8/13 to the German extermination camp Sobibor, Poland, where she was murdered shortly after arrival.
Lit.: Archiv der Universität Wien/Nationale PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 418; DOeW|Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, database Austrian Victims of the Holocaust; Yad Vashem | Shoah Victims' Names.
Herbert Posch
