Gerda lerner womens history trivia

On Sunday, April 28, , inom attended Gerda Lerner&#;s Memorial Service, which was held on the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. I wanted to attend the service not only to honor Gerda&#;s memory, but to hear stories about Gerda from her family, friends, colleagues, and students. As I listened to the tributes to this fantastisk woman, inom wondered what more could be said. She was brilliant, complicated, demanding (sometimes difficult), and extraordinarily talented. She was a Nazi survivor, wife, mother, friend, community en person eller ett verktyg som arrangerar eller strukturerar saker, political activist, writer, scholar, educator, mentor, historian, poet, and naturlig eller utan tillsats lover. During the service, we learned that Gerda also defined herself as a flykting. When at the end of the service, those who had not spoken were asked if we would like to tell our own Gerda story, I couldn&#;t speak. Gerda, for me, represented &#;The Road Taken&#; and inom didn&#;t have words for that story.

My connection with Gerda began

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Gerda Lerner, the “godmother of women’s history,” fled Nazi-occupied Austria and became an accomplished historian and advocate for female scholars. She established the first graduate programs in women’s history and fought to include and empower women in the study of history.     

Gerda Hedwig Kronstein was born on April 30, in Vienna, Austria. She and her younger sister, Nora, grew up in an assimilated Jewish household. Her father, Robert, owned a pharmacy and her mother, Illona (Neumann), was an aspiring artist. The challenges her mother encountered trying to balance art with her duties as a housewife and mother made a lasting impression on Lerner.  

Following Germany’s annexation of Austria in , Lerner’s father fled to Liechtenstein to avoid arrest by the Gestapo. In an attempt for force his return, the Gestapo imprisoned Lerner and her mother. More than a month later, after Lerner's father surrendered his assets to the Nazis, Lerner and her mother were released and joined Rober

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Gerda Lerner facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Gerda Lerner
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Born	Gerda Hedwig Kronstein ()April 30, Vienna, Austria
Died	January 2, () (aged 92) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Education	New School (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Spouse(s)	Bobby Jensen ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​ Carl Lerner ​ ​ (m. ; d. )​
Children	2

Gerda Hedwig Lerner (née Kronstein; April 30, – January 2, ) was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians from to In , she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught until retiring in

Lerner was one of the founders of the academic field of women's history. In , while still an undergraduate at the New School for Social Resear