Last rites for Dr. Ladislaus Michael Schwartz, German Jewish refugee killed in an automobile accident last Monday, await the receipt of a cablegram from Dr. Schwarz’s relatives in Lucenec, Czechoslovakia. The message is expected this morning. Dr. Schwarz was born in Lucenec.
Dr. Schwarz was run down by an automobile Monday evening at Ninety-third street and Columbus avenue. His body was taken to the City morgue, where he was recognized by Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner, of whose staff Dr. Schwarz was a member.
Dr. Schwarz, a well-known pathologist despite the fact that he was only thirty-six years old, was ousted last fall from the Professorship of Forensic Medicine in the Medico-Legal Institute of Berlin University. He fled to his home in Lucenec, Czechoslovakia, formerly a part of Austria, and from there went to London. He arrived in this country six weeks ago and sought aid from the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Surgeons, of which Dr. Bernard Sachs of 116 West Fifty-ninth street is chairman.
He was made an assistant in pathology at the morgue and an appointment was obtained for him last Monday as assistant in the new York University department of medical jurisprudence.
Dr. Schwarz is survived by his father, mother, uncle and four brothers, one of whom is a prominent attorney in the Czechoslovakian town. He served two years in the army. He studied in Vienna, Prague, Budapest and Pressburg. He was for seven years chief of the pathology department in the Institute of Charity Department at the University of Berlin.
Besides his other appointments a place was made for Dr. Schwarz to do research work at the Mount Sinai Hospital. He was aided by Dr. Paul Kemmerer in obtaining a license to practise in New York State.
Dr. Schwarz’s sole relative here is an aunt, Mrs. Ethel Flecker, 1242 Washington avenue, the Bronx. His body is lying at the Riverside Memorial Chapel, Seventy-sixth street and Amsterdam avenue, pending instructions from his family.
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