Lucie (Lucy) Smetana (Fowler)
| Born: |
09-06-1919 |
| Faculty: |
Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Lucie SMETANA (married FOWLER), born on September 6th, 1919 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Fritz Smetana (merchant), lived in Wien 1, Schubertring 12, was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Medical School in the 1st year of her studies.
Lucie Smetana emigrated to Great Britain in 1938, she carried out domestic work for a while before enrolling on a nursing course in Nottingham. Despite not speaking English at the beginning of her course, she scored highest in her year due to the medical knowledge she had acquired on her course in Vienna. She became a nurse, married and had three children, Susan, Peter and Stephen. Much later in life, she retrained as a social worker, but always regretted that she had not been able to become a doctor. She died on August 23rd, 2003 in England.
Lit.: information from her daughter Susan Soyinka, UK, 2010; Susan SOYINKA, A Silence that Speaks. A Family Story through and beyond the Holocaust, Eliora Books 2013; geni.com; Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW): Austrian Victims of the Holocaust (parents Fritz and Berta Smetana, grandparents Cäcilie and Josef Smetana, sister Sonia Smetana); myheritage.de; KNIEFACZ/POSCH 2017a; KNIEFACZ/POSCH 2017b.
Katharina Kniefacz
Nationale of Lucie Smetana, fall term 1937/38 (1st form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien
Nationale of Lucie Smetana, fall term 1937/38 (1st form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien
Nationale of Lucie Smetana, spring termn 1938 (1st form front), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien
Nationale of Lucie Smetana, spring termn 1938 (1st form back), Photo: H. Posch (c) Universitätsarchiv Wien
Lucy Fowler (nee. Smetana), 1940ies in England, (c) Susan Soyinka, England
Class photo of Lucie Smetana (later married Fowler) [top-right] and Annie Altschul [bottom-left], high school (Realgymnasium) in Vienna, 1930s, (c) Susan SOYINKA, A Silence that Speaks. A Family Story through and beyond the Holocaust, Eliora Books 2013, p. 138.
Annie Altschul and Lucie Fowler (nee Smetana) with her children Susan and Peter, England 1949, (c) Susan SOYINKA, A Silence that Speaks. A Family Story through and beyond the Holocaust, Eliora Books 2013, p. 139.
Lucie Fowler (nee Smetana) with her husband John and her children Susan, Peter and Stephen Fowler, Nottingham 1960s, (c) Susan SOYINKA, A Silence that Speaks. A Family Story through and beyond the Holocaust, Eliora Books 2013, p. 154.
