[ArmyTeach]

Dr. Elsbeth Gehorsam. How intersting that there might be a parallel story ..

[ArmyTeach]

Sorry, Memphis TN

[jmacusa]

Dr. Ruth was 12 years old and living in Berlin in 1938 when the Nazis took her father away on November 9th,1938, “Kristallnacht’’. She never saw him again. The rest of her family were lucky to escape Germany and the Holocaust. Little wonder, to me anyway that someone so traumatized by racial and religious hatred, personal loss and war would dedicate their lives to helping other find love, the joy of lovemaking as can only be experienced as only two people who truly love each other heart and soul can so as to create new life. War destroys but love conquers.

[ArmyTeach]

My husband’s ‘cousin’ was Dr Elsbeth Gehorsam who came to specialize in treating severe mental conditions, such as psychosis and schizophrenia. Dr Elsbeth was a young woman, already a medical student, when she left Germany. A German sub surfaced and searched the ship for refugees. She was determined to jump overboard if they identified her. Thank heaven they did not and she arrived safely in the United States. She had a practice in Memphis but traveled all over the Southern US on consults. Never lost her very pronounced German accent. :-)