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Exhibition “A Doctorate for Elisabeth Schneidhuber”
23 Jan 2025
A mosaic of family and educational history
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Elisabeth Schneidhuber (1914–1984) successfully completed her medical studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in 1939 with a doctorate, but she did not initially receive her doctoral certificate. The reason for this was that her mother's side of the family came from the Jewish Wassermann family of entrepreneurs in Munich.
Elisabeth Schneidhuber is the focus of the exhibition “A Doctorate for Elisabeth Schneidhuber – A Mosaic of Family and Educational History,” presented by the university archive division of the LMU University Library and the Institute for Future-Oriented History e. V. in the foyer of the Historicum.
The example of Elisabeth Schneidhuber's family brings into sharp focus the different fates of Jews under National Socialism: Elisabeth emigrated to the USA, where she established herself as a doctor. Her mother and grandmother survived the Theresienstadt ghetto. Her uncle Paul was deported to Kaunas in November 1941 and murdered there.
In addition to historical documents from the university archives, numerous documents that until recently were still in family possession in the USA will be on display.
Date and location of the exhibition
- Duration of the exhibition: January 23, 2025 – April 27, 2025
- Location: Foyer of the Historicum, Schellingstraße 12, 80799 München
Contact
Dr. Susanne Wanninger
University Library of LMU Munich
Special Collections Department
University Archive Division
E-mail:susanne.wanninger@ub.uni-muenchen.de