Olga Spitzer - Wolfsohn
Olga Spitzer-Wolfsohn has made an important contribution to the development of child welfare. She was related to Otto Frank through her mother.
Person
Olga Spitzer-Wolfsohn was related to Otto Frank.[1] Her mother, Fanny Loewi, was the daughter of the eldest sister of Michael Frank, Otto Frank's father. Olga's father was Willy Wolfsohn.[2] She married banquer Arthur Spitzer (1871-1944) and from this marriage three children were born: François (1904-1986), Antoine (1906-1993) and Elisabeth Louise Spitzer (1910-1975).[3]
In 1923, with a few others, she founded the Service Social pour l'Enfance en Danger Moral in Paris.[4] She also financed this organisation. The organisation still exists - now called Association Olga Spitzer - and is still involved in youth welfare.[5]
In the 1930s, the Frank family visited her several times at the Villa Lâret holiday home in Sils-Maria, Switzerland.[6]
Source personal data.[7]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 8 May 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, afd. Collecties: Stamboom Loewi-Wolfsohn-Spitzer (schenking van Emily Chadbourn).
- ^ Geneanet: Family Tree Olga Wolfsohn.
- ^ Histoire du Service Social: Spitzer, Olga née Wolfsohn (1882-1971).
- ^ Fondation Olga Spitzer: Histoire.
- ^ Melissa Müller, Anne Frank: de biografie, 5e, geheel herz. druk, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2013, p. 97-98.
- ^ Geni: Olga Spitzer (Wolfsohn).