Suzanne Loebl

Suzanne "Sue" Loebl (born May 14, 1925 in Hanover ), born Susanne Helene Bamberger , is a German-American chemist, specialist book author, children's and young adult book author, speaker and writer.

family

Susanne and "Susy" was the first child of the post-doctoral chemist and entrepreneur Hugo Bamberger (born August 12, 1887 in Lichtenfels , Upper Franconia , died on December 31, 1949 in New York City ) and his wife Margaret "Gretel" (* 21st February 1902 in Nuremberg ; died February 7, 1991 in New York City), née Schwarzhaupt. Susanne's younger sister is Gabriele (* 1930 in Hanover, later married Lewinson). In Hanover, the family lived in an Art Nouveau house on Kaulbachstrasse across from Eilenriede .

Her father belonged to a Upper Franconian family of international entrepreneurs who traded in wicker and raw materials for the furniture industry, during the Weimar Republic for the Bauhaus , as well as wooden toys made by Pestalozzi student Friedrich Froebel and handicrafts made of wood. Hugo Bamberger was a son of Philipp Bamberger (1858-1919) and his wife Sarah "Serry" (1862-1925), born Ullmann, from Feuchtwangen . His three brothers were Anton , Ludwig and Otto Bamberger .

Her mother was the daughter of Joseph Schwarzhaupt (born November 30, 1869 in Regensburg ; died October 30, 1940 in Nottinghamshire , England ) and his wife Emma Mayer (born January 10, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main ; died December 5, 1955 in New York City).

Susanne's grandfather, Joseph Schwarzhaupt, was co-owner of a chain of retail stores in Franconia and Bavaria, for example in Nuremberg , Regensburg and Munich, under the name Modewarenhaus Emanuel Schwarzhaupt , along with his brothers .

Suzanne Bamberger married on March 15, 1950 in the United States the doctoral Austrian biochemist Ernest (Ernst) M. Loebl (born July 30, 1923 in Vienna , died on June 19, 2020 New York City). The marriage resulted in two children, Judith H. (born May 12, 1954, later married Gordon) and David A. (1956-1993).

Act

Susanne Bamberger grew up in Hanover and started school there. When she was seven years old, the road to power was made possible for the National Socialists . The first thing she noticed about it at school was the fact that her best friend Gerda had disappeared from one day to the next. She had emigrated to Switzerland with her family. However, this was not explained to Susanne. After elementary school, she was supposed to go to secondary school, but it was now difficult for a child of Jewish descent. Finally, the Waldorf School in Hanover's Jägerstrasse agreed to accept Susanne, even though an official ban on accepting new students had been imposed there from Easter 1935. From 1936 she also attended the Hebrew school once a week, which the Jewish Community had called for, in order to prepare the students for emigration, among other things.

Every year Otto Bamberger's nieces and nephews met in his villa " Sonnenhaus " with a large garden in Lichtenfels with his children Ruth (1914–1983) and Klaus Philipp (1920–2008) to spend family celebrations and summer holidays together. The villa became the starting point for numerous excursions, bike rides and hikes in the near and far Franconian region, and so fondly remembered highlights of these years.

From 1935 onwards, Susanne's father, who was co-owner of the Chemische Fabrik Lehrte (CFL), tried to find a way into emigration. Two attempts to gain a professional foothold in Barcelona, ​​Spain, and Milan, Italy , failed in 1936/37 due to the Spanish Civil War and the " Berlin-Rome axis " initiated between Mussolini and Hitler. In 1937 her father finally emigrated to Belgium in order to set up a small company there, before he let his family follow suit the following year. Susanne began to study chemistry in Brussels in order to be able to help her father in his newly established small chemical-pharmaceutical company La Synthèse .

After the invasion of the German Wehrmacht , her father was deported to the southern French Camp de Concentration de Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales), an internment camp on the Mediterranean beach. When Hugo Bamberger received his applied for a visa for the United States in April 1941, he was allowed to leave the internment camp and emigrated to the United States a month later via Spain and Portugal with the Marqués de Comillas of the Compañía Transatlántica Española .

Like her sister and mother, Susanne had to go underground to avoid deportation. She worked as a housemaid for Belgian families who offered her (illegal) accommodation instead of financial compensation. In this way, the three were able to survive the German occupation of Belgium and the Holocaust despite numerous dangerous situations. In 1946 she and her sister and mother were able to follow their father to the USA, who had arrived there penniless. Nevertheless, within three years he managed to set up a chemical-pharmaceutical factory again, the Chemo Puro Mfg. Corp. on Long Iceland in New York State to build.

In the USA Susanne adapted her first name to the English language, to Suzanne , abbreviated Sue or Suzy . She published medical books, children's books, her memoirs and museum guides. She has received several awards for this. With The Nurse's Drug Handbook , she succeeded in creating a standard work for nurses that was widely distributed over decades. Many of her publications have references to her own family.

Works

• with Sarah Regal Riedman: Fighting the unseen. The story of viruses . Abelard-Schuman, London / New York 1967. OCLC 561559599
• Exploring the Mind. Man's Search for Mental Health . Abelard-Schuman, London / New York 1968, ISBN 0-2007-1589-5 .
• Conception, contraception. A new look . McGraw-Hill, Montréal 1974, ISBN 0-0703-8339-1 .
• The Nurse's Drug Handbook . Wiley, New York 1977. OCLC 20955086
• Why can't we have a baby? An authority looks at the causes and cures of childlessness . Warner Books, New York 1979. OCLC 5140087
• with Albert Decker: We want to have a baby . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1980, ISBN 0-1404-6405-0 .
• Parents magazine's Mother's Encyclopedia and Everyday Guide to Family Health . Parents Magazine Enterprises, Dell Pub. Co., New York 1981, ISBN 0-4405-6851-X .
• with Stephen Ira Ajl: Everyday Guide to Family Health. Expert Advice on Child Care and Family Health . Faber, London 1982, ISBN 0-5711-1933-6 .
• with George Spratto, Adrienne L. Woods: The Nurse's Drug Handbook . Delamar Publishers, Albany, NY, USA, 1994. OCLC 622185075
• with Robert P. Grelsamer: The Columbia-Presbyterian Osteoarthritis Handbook. The Complete Guide to the Most Common Form of Arthritis . Macmillan, New York 1996, ISBN 0-0203-4461-9 .
• with Thomas Sperling, Richard von Volkmann-Leander: The Wish Ring . Star Bright Books, New York 1997, ISBN 1-8877-3414-7 .
• At the Mercy of Strangers. Growing up on the Edge of the Holocaust . Pacifica Press, Pacifica, CA, USA, 1997, ISBN 0-9355-5323-1 .
• America's Art Museums. A Traveler's Guide to Great Collections Large and Small . Norton, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-3933-2006-0 .
• with Stephen A. Paget, Michael Lockshin: The Hospital for Special Surgery - Rheumatoid Arthritis Handbook . J. Wiley, Chichester 2002, ISBN 978-0-4714-1045-4 .
• The endless war . Scheunen-Verlag, Kückenshagen 2006, ISBN 978-3-9383-9827-2 .
• The Mothers' Group: Of Love, Loss, and AIDS . ASJA Press, New York 2007. ISBN 978-0-5954-1575-5 .
• America's Medicis - The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy . Harper, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-0612-3722-5 .
• The long way to say goodbye. The group of mothers . Scheunen-Verlag, Kückenshagen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9423-1302-5 .
• Escape to Belgium . Epubli, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-7375-0002-9 .

Awards

• 1968/1969 - Advanced Science Writing Fellowship, School of Journalism, Columbia University
• 1974 - Matrix Award, New York Women in Communication, Public Relations Category
• 1998 - Best Book for the Teen Age: At The Mercy of Strangers. Growing Up on the Edge of the Holocaust , New York Public Library
• 1998 - First Prize Small Press: The Wish Ring
• 2012 - Career Achievement Award, American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA)
• 2018 - City Tech JFSA Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award

Memberships

• American Society Journalists and Authors
• The Authors Guild
• National Association Science Writers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Suzanne Loebl , on: harpercollinsspeakersbureau.com
2. ↑ Suzanne Loebl , on: harpercollins.com
3. ↑ Books , on: suzanneloebl.com
4. ^ Suzanne Loebl: At the Mercy of Strangers - Growing up on the Edge of the Holocaust . Pacifica Press, Pacifica, CA, USA, 1997, ISBN 0-9355-5323-1 , p. 79.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Suzanne Loebl: At the Mercy of Strangers - Growing up on the Edge of the Holocaust . Pacifica Press, Pacifica, CA, USA, 1997, ISBN 0-9355-5323-1 , pp. 5-15.
6. ^ Margarete Wagner-Braun: Jewish entrepreneurs. Religious minority, but economic elite in Regensburg in the 19th century . In: Markus A. Denzel, Matthias Asche, Matthias Stickler (eds.): Religious and denominational minorities as economic and intellectual elites . (= Büdinger research on social history 2006 and 2007) Scripta Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 2009, pp. 371–409.
7. ^ Jewish entrepreneurs - religious minority but economic elite in Regensburg in the 19th century . In: Otto Friedrich University Bamberg, Institute for History and European Ethnology, on: uni-bamberg.de
8. ↑ Ernest Loebl . In: The New York Times , June 28, 2020 at: nyu.edu
9. ↑ Ernst Loebl , on: nyu.edu
10. ↑ Ernst M. Loebl was born on July 30, 1923 in Vienna, where his family lived in the 3rd district at Invalidenstrasse 11 . There he belonged to the scouts and attended the Realgymnasium (RLG) until 1938 . In the second half of August 1938, at the age of 15, he fled to Palestine , where he attended the Ben Yehuda High School in Tel Aviv until 1940 . He then served in the paramilitary Zionist underground organization Haganah and attended the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , where he graduated in 1945 with a Master of Science degree. After the end of the Second World War he came to New York City on October 2, 1947, where he attended Columbia University and received his Ph.D. (Philosophiae Doctor) doctorate . Before completing his doctorate, he initially worked as an instructor at the Polytechnic University Brooklyn. After completing his doctorate, he was appointed full professor in the physical chemistry department and worked there until he retired in 1990.
11. ↑ What Is Remembered Lives - David Loebl , on: poz.com
12. ^ Waldorf Schools 1933–1945: A Chronicle , on: wordpress.com
13. ↑ History of the school , on: waldorfschule-maschsee.de
14. ^ Suzanne Loebl: At the Mercy of Strangers - Growing up on the Edge of the Holocaust . Pacifica Press, Pacifica, CA, USA, 1997, ISBN 0-9355-5323-1 , pp. 49, 58.
15. ↑ Chemo Puro Mfg. Corp. In: Chemical & Engineering News. 35, 1957, p. 28, doi : 10.1021 / cen-v035n014b.p028 .
16. ^ H. Bamberger dies . In: The New York Times , January 1, 1950 at: nytimes.com
17. ^ The Hospital for Special Surgery - Rheumatoid Arthritis Handbook . In: National Association of Science Writers, on: nasw.org
18. ^ The Mothers' Group: of Love, Loss, and AIDS . In: National Association of Science Writers, on: nasw.org
19. ↑ America's Medicis - The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy . In: National Association of Science Writers, on: nasw.org
20. ^ Matrix Hall of Fame , at: nywici.org
21. ^ ASJA Writing Awards Recipients, Category Career Achievement . In: American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), on: asja.org - Quote: “Ms. Loebl joined ASJA in 1975 on the strength of two young adult books, (Fighting the Unseen, The Story of Viruses and Exploring the Mind, the Story of Mental Health.) Suzanne has now written 14 books. Her latest, just published to glowing reviews, is America's Medicis, The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy (Harper Collins). The book has resulted in speaking invitations for Suzanne around the country. Most important, Suzanne understands the basic writer's lesson of turning one's one experiences into prose. She is a survivor of the Holocaust. She wrote a book about it. She lost her beloved son David early to the AIDS epidemic. She wrote a book about it. Her mother-in-law died of a fatal drug interaction prescribed by a physician. She spent five years writing the first edition of The Nurses Drug Handbook, to teach nurses about drugs. She organized the book like a pharmacological test, yet managed to maintain a quick reference system. This enormous work (1,000 plus pages) was an instant and huge success. Its seven editions have sold more than 350,000 copies. It's still going. "
22. ↑ Francesca Norsen Tate: Faith In Brooklyn for October 24: NYC College of Technology marks 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht . In: Brooklyn Daily Eagle , October 24, 2018 at: brooklyneagle.com
23. ↑ Suzanne Loebl, writer , on: prabook.com