Porträt der jüdischen und deutschen Ärztin Paula Tobias (1886-1970)
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lohfeld, Wiebke
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B5143 - B
- Thesaurus
- biografie, joodse vrouwen, technische beroepen, nationaal socialisme, artsen, statistiek
- Description
- In this book the author intends to focus on one crucial aspect of biography: the resources used to sustain identity under interfering historical and societal circumstances and how this identity is reconstructed from an autobiography. As an example, I reconstruct the biography of a German-Jewish physician, Paula Tobias, who fled Germany in 1935 as a result of the National Socialist’s politics of persecuting Jews. The reconstruction follows her autobiography and integrates further data that was collected, including interviews with persons who had been acquainted with Paula Tobias, civil registrations, reparation files and documents filed by those universities where Paula Tobias had studied. The analysis of the autobiography and the additional resources build the portrait of one of the first Jewish female physicians of the last century in Germany.