Lucie Adelsberger (1895–1971) was a specialist in pediatrics and internal medicine. She ran her own doctor’s office in Berlin, where she mainly treated patients with allergic diseases. Her scientific interest was also in allergies. From 1927 to 1933 she worked at the Robert Koch Institute in the newly established observatory for hypersensitivity reactions. The National Socialists withdrew her health insurance and license to practice medicine. Despite a job offer from Harvard Medical School, she stayed with her sick mother and continued to care for her patients. In May 1943 she was deported to Auschwitz, where she was forced to work as a prisoner doctor in the “Gypsy and Women's Camp” in Birkenau. Shortly before the end of the war, she was liberated from a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. In 1946 Lucie Adelsberger emigrated to the USA. In New York, she worked as a doctor and scientist in cancer research until her death. Her memories of Auschwitz are a moving document of the Holocaust.weiterlesen