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Prename: | Edith |
Surname: | Mahler |
Profession: | Physician and dentist |
Birthday: | 1904 |
Place of birth: | Vienna |
Date of death: | 1995 |
Place of death: | London |
Married since: | 1939 |
Children: | 3 (born 1942, 1945, 1948) |
Education: | 1922 final high school examinations (*Matura*); 1922–29 university studies (medicine); 1929–31 trains in dentistry in Vienna; 1939 trains in dentistry in London, British approbation |
Career: | 1931–35 dental assistant; 1935–38 own private practice, Vienna; 1938 emigrates to London, helped by Berta Karlik and the British Federation of University Women (BFUW); auxiliary nurse and nanny; from 1941 dentist in London; 1964–69 chief dentistry officer of Lewisham, responsible for 250,000 schoolchildren; 1970–80 dentist in her husband’s practice |
Memberships: | Association of Austrian University Women (VAÖ); British Federation of University Women (BFUW); 1960 raises funds with Erna Hollitscher for the second wing of Crosby Hall |
Biographical literature: | Adi Wimmer (ed.), *Strangers at Home and Abroad. Recollections of Austrian Jews Who Escaped Hitler* (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000), 57–9 |
Links: | [BiografiA](http://www.biografia.at/) |