German Woman Gets PhD After Being Turned Away by Nazis 77 Years Ago
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iStock/Thinkstock(BERLIN) — A 102-year-old woman from Germany will belatedly get her Ph.D. after being turned away 77 years ago by university officials for being Jewish.
Pediatrician Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport will have a ceremony in her honor at the University of Hamburg on June 9, a university spokeswoman told ABC News.
Rapoport had finished her thesis on diphtheria between 1937 and 1938 but was not given a diploma because her mother was Jewish, according to the national German news agency DPA.
Rapoport migrated to the United States for several years and now lives in Berlin.
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