Eva Kollisch, who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria when she was a teenager to become a professor and memoirist who broke new ground in feminist studies, died on Oct. 10 in Manhattan. She was 98.

The author of two memoirs, Ms. Kollisch taught for 30 years at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, where with Gerda Lerner, Joan Kelly and Sherry Ortner, she helped introduce a foundational women’s studies curriculum.

Raised in a prosperous, secular Jewish family outside Vienna, she recalled facing antisemitism from the age of 6. At times, she said, she was beaten up and called a “dirty Jew.”

When she was 13 and the Nazis annexed Austria, she could no longer continue her education with other Austrian girls and was sent to a boarding school in Vienna for Jewish girls.

In 1939, her parents placed her and her brothers on a Kindertransport train, part of the rescue operation that took about 10,000 Jewish children out of occupied Europe to safety in the Netherlands and England in the months before WWII erupted that September. She was one of the lucky ones who reunited with her parents in New York in 1940.

In an oral history interview in 2004, Ms. Kollisch said that while she remained committed to her fundamental progressive principles, she had to confront additional challenges. “I am a feminist, I am a Marxist, but I am also very worried about the whole world and humanity, and where humanity is.”