Fink, Eugenie (Jenny) Scheindel (née Monheit)
Biographical details: 24 December 1891 in Zülz (now: Biała, Poland) – 15 June 1942 in the Maly Trostinec extermination camp
Occupation: Poet
Eugenie Fink and her husband, Isaak Fink, applied for a visa for the USA in August 1938 in Vienna. By October 1939 their financial resources were depleted. They had to take free meals offered by an aid organization and ask relatives for money. The waiting time for the visa was too long because they came under the Polish contingent. Eugenie and Isaak Fink were deported and murdered.
Fink, Isaak Leser (Lazar)
Biographical details: 29 March 1881 in Rzeszów, Austria-Hungary (now: Poland) – 15 June 1942 in the Maly Trostinec extermination camp
Occupation: Cantor, poet
Isaak Fink and his wife, Eugenie Fink, applied for a visa for the USA in August 1938 in Vienna. By October 1939 their financial resources were depleted. They had to take free meals offered by an aid organisation and ask relatives for money. The waiting time for the visa was too long because they came under the Polish contingent. Isaak and Eugenie Fink were deported and murdered.
Flechtheim, Ossip K.
Biographical details: 5 March 1909 in Nikolayev, Russia (now: Mykolaiv, Ukraine) – 4 March 1998 in Berlin
Occupation: Jurist, political scientist
Exile: 1935 Belgium, 1935 Switzerland, 1939 USA
Remigration: 1952 Germany/FRG
In Switzerland the doctor of law was able to study again upon obtaining a scholarship. In 1939, he passed his diploma after the University of Cologne had stripped him of his doctorate in 1938. From 1939, Flechtheim taught at various universities in the USA. He returned in 1946 for the first time to Germany as a member of the U.S. armed forces. In 1952, he accepted a professorship in Berlin.
Freud, Sigmund
Biographical details: 6 May 1856 in Freiberg, Austria-Hungary (now: Příbor, Czech Republic) – 23 September 1939 in London, United Kingdom
Occupation: Neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis
Exile: 1938 United Kingdom
In Germany, the works of Sigmund Freud fell victim to the Nazi book burnings in May 1933. Yet he still underestimated the threat posed to him by the Nazi regime. What triggered his decision to flee Vienna after the annexation of Austria was the interrogation of his daughter Anna by the Gestapo. In London, Freud continued working on his scientific writings.
