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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman">I want to take the 75<SUP>th</SUP> anniversary of the Progrom night, when not only the churches and fire brigades remained silent toward the violent anti-Semitism, in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Vienna</st1:City> yesterdays night as an opportunity to add more names to this topic, respectively remind of some people, that had to leave <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Austria</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 1938.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face="Times New Roman">Ernst Kisch (1892-1951) a Viennese of Jewish descent was able to get out of the concentrations camps of <st1:City w:st="on">Dachau</st1:City> und Buchenweld and immigrated to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Shanghai</st1:City></st1:place>, where he lived until 1949. In 1950 he started to work in a hospital in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kaesong</st1:place></st1:City>. When the North Korean troops entered the south he was imprisoned and he died on June 28<SUP>th</SUP> 1951 near Andong of malnourishment. I owe this information to a forthcoming article from Werner Koidl.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face="Times New Roman">Rudolf Toch (1919-1999) born in Vienna, was medicine student on Vienna University from 1937 on, and had to leave the university by June 24th 1938 - more than 2700 mostly Jewish affiliates of the University had to leave the university in this year. He immigrated in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 1939, where he could finish his studies. From 1951 to 1953 he was soldier in the Korean War.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face="Times New Roman">Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977), was born in Görlitz (<st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>) and grew up in <st1:City w:st="on">Vienna</st1:City>, where he was in 1938 professor for Political economy at the juridical faculty of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Vienna</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. He lost his permission to teach on April 22<SUP>nd</SUP> 1938. He immigrated to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> where he published the book “Theory of games and economic behaviour”. The game theory should serve in his view to the resolution of conflicts. During the Korean War the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> government consulted game theorists and Morgenstern and his colleagues compiled a 3000-times-3000 strategy mix, with different solutions and then calculated on an ENIAC-Computer the optimal solution. I read that Truman subsequently decided not to cross the Yalu river and to fire McArthur. I owe this information to the memorial book of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Vienna</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, which has only started to review the past, an undertaking that will preoccupy us in the coming decades.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
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