Helen Ollendorff Curth Collection 1932-1997 bulk 1933-1934

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Helen Ollendorff Curth Collection 1932-1997 bulk 1933-1934

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This collection consists primarily of the correspondence of dermatologist Helen Ollendorff Curth for the years 1933 and 1934. The bulk is from friends and family in Germany, particularly her mother, social reformer Paula Ollendorff. Also included are many inquiries from Jewish doctors in Germany about immigration to the United States, as Curth and her husband had left Germany for New York in 1931.

0.25 linear feet

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Leo Baeck Institute.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6346433

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Ollendorff, Paula 1860-1938

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Ollendorff family

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Curth, Helen Ollendorff

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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 L...

Buschke, Abraham, 1868-1943

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