Gisela Lewin

Born:	08-20-1913
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Gisela LEWIN, born on August 20^th, 1913 in Kuty, Galicia/Austro-Hungarian Empire [Poland, today Кути/Ukraine] (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Josef Lewin (1884–1941, civil servant) and Bassie Lewin (1890–1941), lived in Vienna's 3^rd ditrict, Untere Weißgerberstrasse 5/6, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 2^nd year of her studies and took courses in History and Romance languages and literature Studies. After the Anschluss in March 1938, she was forced to abandon her studies for racist reasons - after her application to continue her studies for at least three months under the 2% numerus clausus for Jewish students had also been rejected - and had to leave the University of Vienna immediately. Gisela Lewin had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to England/Great Britain in time with a domestic service permit and lived and worked in Wolverhampton in 1939 and was exempted from internment as an enemy alien at that time. Her parents were unable to flee Vienna in time and were deported from their apartment in Vienna's 3^rd district, Untere Weißgerberstraße 5 to the ghetto in Minsk/Belarus on November 28, 1941, where they were murdered.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment form ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 429.

Herbert Posch