Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt papers

Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt papers 

Dr. Leonore (Lore) Goldschmidt (1897-1983) was born in Gosda, Germany, near Klinge, to Wilhelm and Jenny (Marcuse) Zweig and had one sister, Martha. In 1923, Leonore married a lawyer, Ernst Goldschmidt (1885-1949) and they had two children: daughter Gertrud (b. 1924) and son Rudolf (b. 1925). Leonore worked as a teacher in Berlin at several public and private schools, but she was dismissed from teaching in 1933 because of her Jewish heritage. In 1935, Leonore opened a private Jewish school, Jüdische Privatschule Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt, as an alternative for Jewish children who could no longer attend public school. The school became an official Examination Centre of the University of Cambridge. After the school was closed in 1939, Leonore unsuccessfully attempted to move the school to the United States and create a cooperative farming settlement in North Carolina. Leonore and her family moved to England in 1939 where she continued to run the school in Folkestone, England and later in South Wales until the school closed 1941. Ernst died of cancer in 1949. Leonore attend Birmingham University and continued to work as a teacher in England until the 1960s. She died in 1983 in London. 

Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt papers