Prof. Dr. Beate Berwin

Dr. Beate Berwin, professor of German, philosophy, and economic geography at Greensboro College   (in 1948 newspaper clipping).

She spoke to many groups about the rise of Nazism in Germany, having been a refugee herself from Germany.

One obituary mentions transport of her remains to Boston for burial.

She was born in Gleiwitz Germany and graduated from the University of Heidelberg.

She may have arrived in the US in 1936 or 1941 the clipping is distorted in the year.

Recorded on The 1939 German Minority Census Database put online by the Tracing The Past organization. Born in Gleiwitz on March 21, 1885. Still in Germany in 1939. Probably arrived in US in 1941.

More details from the mappingthelives project, part of Tracing the Past:

17.05.1939 Ernst-Ring-Str. 2-4 Schlachtensee / Nikolassee / Zehlendorf Berlin/ German Reich Current Place Name:

Nikolassee / (Steglitz-Zehlendorf) Berlin / Federal Republic of Germany EMIGRATION Date of Emigration:25.03.1941 Emigration destination:USA ALTERNATE PERSONAL DETAILS Forename(s):Clara

Leo Baeck Institute digital collections has an entry on her book about Mendelsohn published in Berlin in 1919. Complete book available for download.

News item 2023:
https://www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/de/ernst-ring-strasse/2/beate-c...

General search for Berwin stolpersteine October 2023:

SURNAME
YEAR
DISTRICT
STREET
Ernst Berwin 1892 Pankow Parkstrasse 60
Katharina Berwin (née Goldberg) 1892 Pankow Parkstrasse 60
Barbara Berwin 1924 Pankow Parkstrasse 60
Alexander Berwin 1926 Pankow Parkstrasse 60
Eliese Wolff (née Berwin) 1895 Prenzlauer Berg Christburger Straße 36
Beate Clara Berwin 1885 Schlachtensee Ernst-Ring-Strasse 2