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Dr Rosa <I>Welt</I> Straus

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Dr Rosa Welt Straus

Birth
Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivetska, Ukraine
Death
15 Dec 1938 (aged 82)
Geneve, Switzerland
Burial
Veyrier, Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland Add to Map
Plot
Tomb 297
Memorial ID
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Daughter of Sinai Welt. First Austrian woman to earn a medical degree.

Rosa was a leader of women's rights in Israel

The birth town is the current name.

Sisters:

- Ida Welt, a doctor of Chemistry. Attended Vassar and died in Geneva in 1950.

- Leonora Welt Gourfein (David ... an ophthalmologist and professor at University of Geneva). She died in Geneva in 1944.

- Sara Welt Kakels (Moses S.), the first woman pediatrician at Mt. Sinai hospital in New York

Read about her sisters
Daughter of Sinai Welt. First Austrian woman to earn a medical degree.

Rosa was a leader of women's rights in Israel

The birth town is the current name.

Sisters:

- Ida Welt, a doctor of Chemistry. Attended Vassar and died in Geneva in 1950.

- Leonora Welt Gourfein (David ... an ophthalmologist and professor at University of Geneva). She died in Geneva in 1944.

- Sara Welt Kakels (Moses S.), the first woman pediatrician at Mt. Sinai hospital in New York

Read about her sisters


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