Dr. Oskar Stricker Barolin, [Med.]

Birth per genteam.at:

• 1886 #2455 Wien
• Stricker / Stricker-Barolin Oskar
• Siegmund/Wengraf Berta

List of Medical doctors in Vienna per genteam.at:

Stricker Oskar b. 1886.03.11 Wien Jewish

Dr. Oskar Stricker[-Barolin] was a urologist. He and Flora Barolin were married Oct. 7, 1920 (letter from their daughter Eva Stricker-Barolin, 1995)

"Oskar . . . was an excellent pianist and still played very well when well over 80 years old . . . he used to play the Beethoven Sonatas for piano and violin with [his cousin] Stefan [Stricker]." -- Edith Silberberg Stricker, wife of Otto Stricker, in Otto Stricker memoir.

cf. IKG-Wien Archives & family records:

Oskar was a doctor. He is cited among Edmund WENGRAF's consultant doctors in one of E.W.'s obituaries of 1933.

Lisl -- Oskar's cousin-once-removed -- remembers that Oskar was quite strict and that e.g. he would not allow any of the female members of the family to wear make-up.

Oskar died on 24 July 1972 in Wien. He was buried in Wien, Feuerhalle Simmering: 1-1-2-13.

FOR A MOVING READING OF A LETTER WRITTEN TO HIM AND HIS WIFE FLORA BY PAULA ROSENBERG, on 15 February 1941, following her Deportation from Wien to Opole Lubeskie SEE & HEAR:

Paula Rosenberg schreibt über ihre Zwangsumsiedlung von Wien nach Opole Lubelskie am 15. Februar 1941 - Die Quellen sprechen - Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933 - 1945 Produktion: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Hörspiel und Medienkunst in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Zeitgeschichte / Edition ‚Judenverfolgung 1933–1945‘, 2013 http://die-quellen-sprechen.de/03-151.html

Dok.-03-151 15 Feb. 1941

A short biography of Oscar is also featured:

Dr. Oskar Stricker-Barolin (1886–1972), Arzt; von 1914 an Kriegsdienst, 1920 Rückkehr aus Kriegsgefangenschaft, 1938 Entzug der Ordination, Selbstmordversuch im Haus der Gestapo am Wiener Morzinplatz; leitete von 1945 an die urologische Abt. am Erzherzogin-Sophie-Spital in Wien.

Another source for further correspondence written by Paula ROSENBERG to Oskar & Flora STRICKER-BAROLIN can be found here:

Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europaeischen Juden durch das ... - Google Books

http://books.google.de/books?id=xfN_gfNl41gC&pg=PA169-IA35&lpg=PA16...

cf. Extracts from Lisl, née WALK's mini-memoir completed in 2004 (in family archives):

(1940- England) " ... Mother’s next job was also in Hampstead, only a little way from Frognal, with an elderly couple who were married and were also cousins, as was the fashion quite often in Victorian times. The elderly gentleman was a former scientist or mathematician and he was keen to help with my education. He was a member of the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street in London. The Royal Institution had been founded in late Victorian times (don’t quote me) and was a centre for scientific demonstrations, lectures and research done by eminent scientists like Rutherford, Max Planck, Prof. Fred Hoyle etc. I was taken to lectures, with films and slides, particularly remembering a fascinating one of the sun and its sunspots and flares that go 500,000 miles up in the air, magnificent to see – and I had been interested in astronomy for ages, ever since my Uncle Oskar showed me the sky at night from their house in Mauer, near Vienna..."

cf. photos under "Media" of Stricker-Barolin house at Mauer and one of Onkel Oskar showing something interesting to Lisl during daylight ...