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Victims of Nazis honored

 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   
Published: July 3, 2009

VIENNA — Kurt Elias vividly remembers the day in 1938 when the Nazis barred him from entering the University of Vienna because he was Jewish.

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"I had to send someone else in to get my dissection kit and coat,” said the 90-year-old Elias, a medical student at the time.

The Vienna native ended up becoming a doctor in the United States and now lives in New York City.

Elias is one of more than 2,200 people listed in an online database launched this week containing the names of students and teachers — most of them Jewish — who were forced to leave the University of Vienna after Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in 1938.

Project leader Herbert Posch said he and his team spent years identifying and trying to track down as many people as possible who were expelled from the University of Vienna 71 years ago to compile the virtual memorial book.

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