Lily Salz
| Born: |
03-28-1915 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Lily SALZ, born on March 28
th, 1915 in Vienna/Austro-Hungarian Empire (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship 1938: Austria), daughter of Moses/Moriz Salz M.D. (1871–1943, physician) and Helene Salz, née Meier (1880–1944), lived in Vienna's 2
nd district, Taborstrasse 54, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 4
th year of her studies and took courses in History and Romance language and literature Studies (in the spring term 1938 she requested to continue her studies in the context of the Numerus clausus of Jewish Students, but was rejected).
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism she was forced to quit her studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna.
She had to flee Vienna, but attended courses in shorthand, typing and English commercial correspondence in order to have better chances of leaving the country and work opportunities in emigration. While her brother, the physician Georg(e) Erwin Salz (Solt), had already left for France via Italy at the end of August 1938 and emigrated from there to the USA in January 1940 (he later lived in Chicago, IL), Lily was still waiting for her U.S. visa in Vienna, and when she had received it on July 14
th, 1939, she left for the USA on July 27
th, 1939 from Le Havre/France on the ship
SS Washington. She landed in New York City, NY on August 3
rd, 1939.
Her parents did not manage to escape in time and they were deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt [Terezín/Czech Republic] in 1942 where her father died in 1943 and her mother was further deported to Auschwitz [Oświęcim/Poland] in October 1944 and murdered there.
Lily Salz had listed Tomahawk, WI, as her destination in the U.S. in 1939, and by the 1940 census she was then living not far away in Madison, Dane, WI, where she also graduated from
Madison University with an M. A. in 1940 and a Ph. D. in 1943. She taught at Wisconsin colleges and from 1959 was assistant professor and head of the
foreign language department at
Oshkosh State College in Oshkosh, WI.
In the 1990s, her life centered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Lily Salz died on February 15th, 1996 in Canada.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; Archiv of the Jewish Community of Vienna/"Auswandererkartei"; Austrian state Archives OeStA/AdR/E-uReang/FLD 19235, OeStA/AdR/E-uReang/VVSt/VA/26983; Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna WStLA/ 1.3.2.119.A41 1066 N, Bezirk: 1; DOeW 2001; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 463; Oshkosh Daily Northwestern August 26, 1959, 5 www.genteam.at; www.ancestry.de; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 10/2020.
Herbert Posch
