Lucie Adelsberger Collection 1947-1994

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The offprint by Adelsberger "Psychologische Beobachtungen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz" (1947) and a note and book dedication from her to Jacques Bloch.Jean & Jacques BlochClare Freund, 1995Lucie Adelsberger was born in Nuremberg and studied at the University of Erlangen. She practiced medicine in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, specializing in the fields of allergy and immunology and conducting research at the Robert Koch Institute. In 1933 she declined an invitation to join the faculty at Harvard in order to remain with her mother. In 1943 she was deported to Auschwitz, where she was assigned to work in the infirmary of the Gypsy section of the camp. In 1945 she was forced on a death march from Auschwitz and eventually was sent to Ravensbruck and then Neustadt before being liberated in May 1945. She immigrated to the United States after the war, working as an immunologist at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in New York City. Jacques Bloch was her colleague there and she became friends with he and his wife, Jean Bloch.processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationdigitize