What was with Privy Councillor Krückmann remains unchanged!
Problems with the dissertation in medicine
Gerda Wolfsohn-Zondek studied medicine at various German universities from 1927 and enrolled at Friedrichs-Wilhelms University in Berlin in autumn 1930. She passed her state examination in 1933 and had already written her doctoral thesis. However, she did not have the money to print it. In the meantime, she was able to start her so-called practical year with Professor Emil Krückmann, who strongly supported her, and also completed it under his successor Walter L?hlein.
She encountered further obstacles before she was finally able to realise the printing of her dissertation in 1935 with the help of her future husband, Hermann Zondek. From January 1934, medical doctorates were only awarded to Jewish students on condition that they had a permanent position abroad and renounced their German citizenship. Although Gerda Wolfsohn-Zondek had a position in Jerusalem - Hermann was already a professor there - the university refused to grant her a doctorate. It was not until 2001 that Humboldt-Universit?t subsequently awarded her a doctorate.
Emigration to Palestine
Gerda Wolfsohn-Zondek's later husband, Hermann Zondek, was considerably older than her and had been head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Urban Hospital in Kreuzberg since 1926. At the beginning of March 1933, a few weeks before the Professional Civil Servants Act was passed, he was thrown out of the hospital by SA men and emigrated to Palestine. He was Gerda Wolfsohn-Zondek's first port of call after her own emigration in 1935. Gerda Wolfsohn-Zondek's older sister Ruth Wolfsohn fled to France with her family. She had also studied in Berlin and was a lawyer.
In Jerusalem, Gerda Wolfsohn-Zondek found a job as an assistant doctor at the Bikur Cholim Hospital, which was now run by Hermann Zondek, whom she married in 1949. She specialised in endocrinology and, together with her husband, published numerous medical research papers on glands.
Gerda Wolfsohn-Zondek also began to paint portraits of people around her, which were published in 1988. She continued to exhibit her paintings outside of Israel into old age.
Gerda Wolfsohn-Zondek died in Jerusalem in 2003, 24 years after her husband.