Curth, Helen Ollendorff

Helen O. Curth (1899-1982, born Helene Ollendorff in Breslau and nicknamed "Lene," later known as Helen in the United States) studied in Freiburg, Berlin, and Munich, and became a medical doctor and assistant to the noted physician Abraham Buschke (1868-1943). She married William Curth, another of Buschke's assistants, in 1927. They moved to the United States in 1931, and successfully continued their medical careers, primarily in dermatology. Their daughter Elisabeth married Edgar Lehman.

Helene was the daughter of Isidor Ollendorff (d. 1911) and Paula Ollendorff (1860, Kostenblut, Silesia - 1938, Jerusalem). Paula was a socially active liberal in Breslau, and among the co-founders of the Jewish Women’s Association (Jüdischer Frauenbund) in 1905. Their children were Friedrich (1889-1951) and Helene.

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