Dr. med. Lucie Adelsberger

Title: Dr. med.
Prename: Lucie
Surname: Adelsberger
Profession: Physician
Birthday: 04/12/1895
Place of birth: Nürnberg
Date of death: 11/02/1970
Place of death: New York
Education: University studies (medicine) in Erlangen, Germany; 1920 state examination; 1923 doctorate
Career: 1924–27 pediatrician in Berlin, Wedding district; 1927–33 research fellow at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin; 1933 dismissed; from 1938 “Krankenbehandlerin,” providing medical care for Jews; 1939 failed attempt to emigrate; 1943 deported to Auschwitz and put to work as camp physician; 1945 transferred to Ravensbrück, freed by US Army; 1945 emigrates to the United States; 1947–49 tuberculosis specialist at the Montefiore Hospital, New York; from 1949 research fellow at the Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center; 1949 US medical license; from 1949 private allergological practice in New York
Memberships: Until 1933 member of the German Pediatrics Society; Federation of German Women Physicians (BDÄ), resigns 1930; 1928 Berlin Medical Society; Physicians’ League of Greater Berlin; 1930 Berlin Association of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (Verein für innere Medizin und Kinderheilkunde in Berlin); 1956–65 Rudolf Virchow Medical Society
Biographical literature: Gerhard Baader, “Lucie Adelsberger: A Forgotten Jewish Pioneer Allergist,” *Korot* 12 (1996/97): 137–43; Edouard Seidler, “Lucie Adelsberger, 1945-1971,” in Lucie Adelsberger, *Auschwitz. Ein Tatsachenbericht. Das Vermächtnis der Opfer für uns Juden und für alle Menschen. Neu herausgegeben, ergänzt und mit einem Anhang versehen von Eduard Seidler* (Bonn: Bouvier, 2001), 107–35; [Neue Deutsche Biographie, Ludie Adelsberger](http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz001_00392_1.html#index)
Major works: *Die Verdauungsleukozytose beim Säugling* (diss.; Erlangen: Jacob, 1923); *Auschwitz. A Doctor’s Story* (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995)
Links: [papers](http://www.wjst.de/blog/collections/lucie-adelsberger-papers/)