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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

German, Jewish woman, Nazis, female scientists

College

Humanities

Department

Germanic and Slavic Languages

Abstract

When one hears about the Jewish scholars who fled the German Third Reich during the Nazi’s reign of terror, one often hears of Einstein, Freud and others; however, a little known fact is that many scholars in pre-Nazi Germany were Jewish women. These Jewish women were at the forefront of their gender, struggling to be among the first women to gain a secondary education and doctorates to teach at the universities. Many of these scholars’ stories have gone untold through the years because of their gender and because of their race, which the Nazis sought to destroy. Many of their lives, their friendships, their careers, their publications and their opportunities were suppressed and ultimately destroyed by the Nazi regime. The efforts of my research was to uncover these women’s stories, publish their work and stories from their lives on the BYU German Department’s “Sophie” website; thereby helping others to see the work that particularly the German Jewish women scientists had performed and how their lives were affected by the Third Reich.

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