Hirtz - Senta - 1908-1998

Senta Ruth Augusta Hirtz was born in London on 12 March 1908, where her German father worked as a chemist. In 1910 the family returned to Germany and moved several times due to her father's work commitments. When she left school she initially trained as a nursery nurse. Between 1930-1933 she retrained as a teacher in the Medau technique at the Medau School of Eurythmics and Gymnastics in Berlin.

Being part-Jewish, Senta Hirtz emigrated to London as a refugee to avoid Nazi persecutions in 1936. She taught Medau to women and children across North London but as the war approached it became increasingly difficult to obtain such work. In the Iate 1930s she was accepted at St Thomas's Hospital to retrain as a physiotherapist.

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