遲到的證書 102歲主婦獲德國博士學位
A 102-year-old German woman has become the world's oldest person to be awarded a doctorate on Tuesday, almost 80 years after the Nazis prevented her from sitting her final exam。
Ingeborg Rapoport (then Syllm) finished her medical studies in 1937 and wrote her doctoral thesis on diphtheria - a serious problem in Germany at the time。
But because of Nazi oppression she has had to wait almost eight decades before being awarded her PhD。
Her mother was a Jewish pianist。
So, under Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic race laws, Ingeborg was refused entry to the final oral exam. She had written confirmation from Hamburg University that she would have received her doctorate "if the applicable laws did not prohibit Ms Syllm's admission to the doctoral exam due to her ancestry"。
Now the university has set right that wrong。
Three professors from Hamburg University's medical faculty travelled last month to Ingeborg's sitting room in east Berlin to test her on the work she carried out in pre-war Germany。
They were impressed and a special ceremony took place at Hamburg University Medical Centre on Tuesday, in which she finally received the PhD that the Nazis stole from her。
"It was about the principle," she said. "I didn't want to defend my thesis for my own sake. After all, at the age of 102 all of this wasn't exactly easy for me. I did it for the victims [of the Nazis]."
周二，在納粹構造她加入期末測驗的80年後，一位102歲的德國主婦成為天下上得到博士學位時年事最大的人。
英格博格·拉波波特(後改姓希爾姆)在1937年完成為了醫學專業的進修，她的卒業論文內容是德國其時的緊張題目——白喉。
但由於納粹的榨取，她不能不等待了險些80年才拿到博士學位。
她的母親是一位猶太畫家。
是以，在阿道夫·希特勒的反閃族司法下，英格博特被謝絕加入末了答辯。漢堡大學發給她的書面確認認可，“假如不是實用的司法因希爾姆女生的血統制止她加入博士答辯”，她本應得到博士學位。
如今漢堡大學糾正了這個毛病。
上個月，三名漢堡大學醫學系傳授來到英格博特處於東柏林的家中，在客堂裏對她戰前做的研討事情舉行測驗。
英格博特給他們留下了深入的印象。周二，漢堡大學醫學中間舉辦了一個特別的典禮，付與她被納粹偷走的博士學位。
英格博特說：“這關乎原則。從我小我角度，我其實不想做答辯。究竟到了102歲的年事，答辯對我來講可不易。我做這些事為了(納粹的)受害者。”
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