Lilli Jahn

Lilli Jahn (born "Schlüchterer;" March 5, 1900– probably June 19, 1944) was a German-Jewish doctor and victim of the Nazism in Germany. She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her letters to her five children which she wrote during her imprisonment in the labour camp Breitenau. She was deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz and was killed there.

Life

Childhood and Education

Lilli Jahn was born as Lilli Schlüchterer, daughter of a wealthy tradesman who lived in Cologne as a liberal assimilated Jew. She got a quite progressive education for a girl at that time: She was taking her A-levels in 1919 at Kaiserin-Augusta-School in Cologne and started after that studying medicine in Würzburg, Halle (Saale), Freiburg im Breisgau and Cologne. Her sister Elsa who was a year younger than she was studied chemistry. 1924 Lilli finished her studies successfully and got her conferral of a doctorate with a thesis about Hematology. Firstly she worked on an temporary employment at a doctor's practice and the "Israelitischens Asyl für Kranke und Altersschwache" in Cologne.

Bibliography

Doerry, Martin; John Brownjohn (Translator): "My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944" (2004).Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 1-5823-4370-5