Eve S. Weiss at the Dental Ball, 1948
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Elite Photos (estab. Circa 1865, closed Circa 1950s)
Date
Apr 1948
Description
Black and white photograph of Eve Susan Weiss (1926-2016) at the Dental Ball in April 1948. Weiss graduated from Dentistry within the following year.
Eve Susan Weiss was born in Vienna in 1926. Along with her family, she was forced to flee the Nazi occupation of Austria in 1939, arriving in Australia as a 13-year-old refugee with little English. Despite these hardships, she studied hard, excelled at school and went on to study dentistry at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1948. She received the John Iliffe prize, awarded annually to the top student, at the end of her fourth year.
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