{"id":840,"date":"2020-04-30T02:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T02:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/?p=840"},"modified":"2023-12-14T18:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:59:02","slug":"bella-thannhauser-wirz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/bella-thannhauser-wirz\/","title":{"rendered":"About Dr. Wirz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bella Thannhauser Wirz, 1890\u20131980, medical doctor specializing in pediatrics and sports medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Physician Bella Thannhauser Wirz volunteered as a doctor during the 1948 war. Courtesy of Nava Isseroff<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

The daughter <\/span> of a successful manufacturer in Munich, Isabella Thannhauser attended primary school and a secondary school for girls on Luisenstra\u00dfe. Private lessons enabled her to receive a diploma from a high school for boys, which cleared her path to study medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University. She married a fellow student Franz Wirz in 1917, the same year she received her license. Perhaps because she was married,1<\/a><\/sup>Munson, Kitty, Bella Thanhauser<\/a>, accessed July 31, 1923. Kitty Munson has extensively chronicled her family history. Regarding Bella Thanhauser: \u201cOnce married, it was normal for a wife to stay home and take care of the house and children in those days so she did.\u201d<\/span> she worked as an unpaid<\/em> assistant physician in the outpatient clinic of the Dr. von Haunerschen Kinderspital (Dr. von Hauner Children\u2019s Hospital) until 1919.2<\/a><\/sup>Autenrieth, Andrea, \u00c4rztinnen und \u00c4rzte am Dr. von Haunerschen Kinderspital, die Opfer nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung wurden<\/em><\/a>. Dissertation zum Erwerb des Doktorgrades der Medizin an der Medizinischen Fakult\u00e4t der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t zu M\u00fcnchen, 2012, p. 51.<\/span> Her daughter, Liselotte (later Alisa<\/a>) was born the following year. Dr. Wirz managed an infant welfare clinic in Munich until 1928. She divorced in 1928. After more unpaid work at the St\u00e4dtische Kinderklinik (Municipal Children\u2019s Clinic) in D\u00fcsseldorf for 2 years, she moved with her daughter to Berlin, where, between November 1929 and April 29, 1930, she worked under Heinrich Finkelstein, a pioneer in pediatric nutrition. She attended the Sozialhygenische Akademie (Academy of Social Hygiene) and assisted at the Reichsanstalt zur Bek\u00e4mpfung der S\u00e4uglingssterblichkeit (Reich Institute to Combat Infant Mortality) before starting a practice as pediatrician in the Berlin district of Tegel.3<\/a><\/sup> Bella Thannhauser \/ AEIK00141,<\/em> Dokumentation \u00c4rztinnen im Kaiserreich\u201c, Institut f\u00fcr Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin,<\/em><\/a> Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin, accessed July 31, 2023. <\/span> Mother and daughter were forced to leave Germany after the institution of laws revoking the right of Jewish doctors to register with statutory health insurance bodies, effectively making it impossible for Jews to practice medicine. In 1933, the pair emigrated to Palestine. On April 4, 1942, Dr. Wirz\u2019 sister, Josepha,4<\/a><\/sup>Josepha Thannhauser\/981227, <\/em><\/a>Das Bundesarchive Gedenkbuch, Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 \u2013 1945. Accessed July31, 2023.<\/span> a concert violinist, was deported to Piaski. Three months later, the Wirz sisters\u2019 mother committed suicide in Munich.5<\/a><\/sup> Lina Karolina Thannhauser\/981230, <\/em><\/a> ibid. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Wirz had a long career in Jerusalem in family, as well as sports, medicine. (She was herself a member of a synchronized swim team.) Around 1936, she moved to an apartment in 8 Keren Kayemet Street in Rehavia<\/a>. Ismar David rented studio space from her in the basement of the building. He lived in 8 KKL Street with Dr. Wirz and her daughter from the late 1930s until he spent a year and a half working for the Bonds of Israel<\/a> in the United States and, ultimately emigrated in 1952. Dr. Wirz maintained the studio and its contents for some time after David\u2019s departure and we have her family to thank for the safekeeping of various documents and artifacts.<\/p>\n\n

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Bella Thannhauser Wirz in Israel. Courtesy of Nava Isseroff<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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