Samuel Kaufman

Born:	07-01-1912
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled student

Samuel KAUFMAN, born on July 1^st, 1912 in Trenton, New Jersey/USA (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Brooklyn, New York/USA, Citizenship: USA), son of Morris Kaufman (Brooklyn), lived in Vienna 8^th district, Breitenfelder Gasse 14/5, from 1937 on in Vienna 9^th district, Schwarzspanierstrasse 9/9.
Samuel Kaufman was enrolled finally in spring term 1937 in the 5^th and last year of his studies ('Absolutorium' was certified on July 18^th, 1938) and was preparing for the final exams ('Rigorosen') in 1938. He could finally finish his studies and graduated on July 21^st, 1938, but only with the discriminating ceremony of a "Nichtarierpromotion". He as an American citizen had to declare that he is not willing to practice as a physician in the German Reich. He got married to his Viennese fellow student Berta Amstetter (born 1913) in Vienna, who also graduated on July 21^st, 1938 with the discriminating ceremony of a "Nichtarierpromotion", for her as a former Austrian citizen of Jewish faith this included in the Third Reich that she was banned from her profession at the same tim. They emigrated to the USA in August 1938.

Lit: POSCH 2009, 371, Archive of the University of Vienna/Enrollment forms ("Nationale") MED, Protocol of Promotions; information from Mag. Maria Czwik und Dr. Barbara Sauer, Vienna 12/2015; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022.

Katharina Kniefacz und Herbert Posch