Paul Goldschmidt (speech therapist)

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Paul Goldschmidt (born August 8, 1914 in Amsterdam , † August 10, 2010 ) was a Dutch speech therapist .

Life

He was the fourth child of the Jewish coffee wholesaler and chess player (Maurits) Maurice Isaac Goldschmidt (* May 11, 1870 in Amsterdam; † March 30, 1944 in Bergen-Belsen ) and Adele Koppel (* 1880 in Gelsenkirchen ; April 1943 to 1945 in Theresienstadt; † 1981 in Harmelen ). Paul's siblings were Rudolf Carel (* 1908; murdered 1942 in Klein Mangersdorf ), Otto Herman (* 1910; submerged during the war; † 2001) and Augusta Regina (* 1913; imprisoned in the Dutch camp Vught from 1943 until the end of the war; † 2005). Maurits Goldschmidt ran his company in the factory building of his father Calmon, who had emigrated from Geseke in Germany and initially founded a vinegar factory in Amsterdam on Prinsengracht No. 812–814. Since Paul Goldschmidt himself had great difficulties reading and writing as a child, he decided to become a speech therapist and passed the speech therapy exam in Utrecht in 1936. He was particularly interested in neurologically impaired patients with movement disorders. During the Second World War he lost a large part of his family due to persecution by the National Socialists. In November 1943, he and his wife Renata Laqueur were imprisoned. Traumatized, he survived imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the evacuation transport, during which he would almost have starved to death if his wife did not eat something edible at risk of death. B. would have worried potato peels whenever the prison train stopped on the open road. The couple separated in 1950 and Renata moved to New York to start a new life.

After the war, Paul Goldschmidt lived in the south of Amsterdam and worked as a speech therapist mainly with children. With his second wife Heleen, geb. Viehoff he had four children: Tijs * 1953, Saskia * 1954, Michiel * 1956 and Corine * 1959. From 1969 he was a lecturer in Dortmund at what was then the University of Education in the field of pedagogy for the physical and language impaired. As one of the first speech therapists in Europe, he had developed speech therapy concepts for people with neurological diseases and disabilities in Amsterdam and was therefore asked to teach future teachers for children with such disabilities at the university. After he retired in 1983, he continued to be deeply committed to helping people in need of communication support. He participated in the founding of ISAAC Germany (International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication; international society for complementary and alternative communication based in Toronto). He last lived in his third marriage with Bärbel Weid-Goldschmidt in Essen-Burgaltendorf.

ISAAC-GSC (the German-speaking section of the association) awards a prize every two years to a person who speaks with support and who has achieved something special. This award was originally called the "golden ISAAC"; In 2008 it was renamed the Paul Goldschmidt Prize. In May 2012, a support center for physically and speech-impaired children in the Bremen district of Lesum, which was previously named after the former mayor Louis Carl Seegelken, was renamed the Paul Goldschmidt School.

Fonts

  • Speech therapy examination and treatment of brain damaged children in early childhood , 1970.

literature

  • Saskia Goldschmidt: Good job. Portret van een familie ( Obligatory Happy, Portrait of a Family )
  • Saskia Goldschmidt: De Hormoonfabriek. Amsterdam 2012 (German: Die Glücksfabrik, dtv 2014)
  • Renata Laqueur: Bergen-Belsen diary. Hanover 1983 (3rd edition: Fackelträger Verlag, July 1999)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from 23 August 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saskiagoldschmidt.nl
  2. ^ Jews in Geseke: Documentation of the cemeteries and history of families; P. 57: Family tree of the Goldschmidt family
  3. ↑ http://www.kz-zuege.de/pdf/kapitel_04.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/foreignrights/pdf/verplichtfactsheet.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.uitgeverijcossee.nl  
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isaac-online.de
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.strassenlexikon.de
  7. ↑ http://www.bildung.bremen.de/sixcms/media.php/13/G10_18_00+Schulnamens%E4nderung+Louis+Seegelken.pdf
  8. ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/stadtteile/bremen-nord_artikel,-Foerderzentrum-gibt-sich-neuen-Namen-_arid,124186.html
  9. ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/stadtteile/bremen-nord_artikel,-Ein-Name-mit-Strahlkraft-_arid,126201.html
  10. ↑ http://www.saskiagoldschmidt.nl/verplicht-gelukkig/
personal data
SURNAME Goldschmidt, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch speech therapist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2010