Loni (Lony) Gottlieb (verh. Bodansky)

Born:	05-23-1919
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Loni GOTTLIEB (married BODANSKY), born on May 23^rd, 1919 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Ing. Hermann Gottlieb (1875-1943, senior official ("Hofrat")) and his wife Camilla, nee Klauber (1884-1964), lived in Vienna 13^th district, Hietzinger Hauptstrasse 69, was enrolled finally in fall term 1937/38 at the Philosophical School in the 1^st year of her studies and took courses in Pharmaceutics and Chemistry. After the "Anschluss" Loni Gottlieb was able to emigrate to New York City/USA in 1938. In 1943 she married Harry Bodansky in New York, who was also expelled from the Philosophical School of the University of Vienna in 1938. The couple had two sons, Harvey and Robert. She made efforts to bring also her parents to the USA, but they failed. They were deported to the ghetto Theresienstadt [Terezín/Czech Republic], where Hermann Gottlieb died. Camilla Gottlieb survived the arrestment and was able to emigrate to the USA in 1946, too, where she lived with her daughter Lony and Harry Bodansky in New York.
When Harry Bodansky accepted a job with the Commerce Department in 1952, the family moved to Kensington, Maryland, where her mother died in 1964. Lony Bodansky died in 1970, Harry Bodansky died on May 21st, 2009.

Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 395; Archive of the University of Vienna/Enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1937-1938; FRITSCH 2007; National Museum of American History/Archives Center: Gottlieb and Bodansky Family Papers; obituary of Harry Bodansky, in: Washington Jewish Week, May 27, 2009.

Katharina Kniefacz