Erna Barschak

Erna Barschak (* 1888 in Berlin, † October 12, 1958 in Philadelphia ) was a German professional educator and psychologist. An important work is her autobiographical book about experiences after escaping from the Nazi dictatorship.

Life

Erna Barschak was trained typist and an accountant and worked in that profession for six years until she earned a diploma in 1914 as a trade teacher in Berlin. In 1915 she made ​​up for the high school and then began studies in economics, sociology and psychology, which she completed both in their hometown Berlin and Tübingen. During her studies Barschak worked as a teacher at night school and became after completing their graduation in 1921 teacher at the urban Berlin School of Economics and at the Pestalozzi- Froebel House. In 1930 she became a professor of the State Vocational Pedagogical Institute in Berlin, but was dismissed due to the assumption of power by the Nazis in 1933 their duties. In this respect, her career is closely linked to Susanne Engelmann's Charlotte, but it Barschak was directly possible to study psychology after their release in London and Geneva, and thus counteract further professional and private restrictions. However Barschak returned even during the time of the Nazi dictatorship in 1935 returned to Berlin to participate in Jewish education and taught until her emigration Psychology and Education at the Jewish Teachers College in Berlin. In September 1939 Barschak began to notify their contacts and prepare their escape. Finally over Britain, they came in 1940 in the USA and came in the academic year 1941/42, a year before Susanne Charlotte Engelmann took this position, through the help of " AAUW " as " refugee scholar " at Wilson College in Pennsylvania, USA, among. This entry into the teaching profession secured her academic career and so Erna Barschak was then a professor of psychology at Miami University of Ohio in Oxford.

Work

Barschak is erroneously referred to as a Zionist, as they, together with Fritz Bamberger was working in 1937 to align the education on Jewish emigration. In addition Barschak published in the edited by Susanne Charlotte Engelmann weekly journal Social Practice and other social science newspapers. After emigrating to the United States Barschak published in 1945 an autobiographical work that recounts her experiences in the new home. This describes, among other things, the problems expected that academic refugees in the new professional environment. So Barschak describes, for example, the utopian ideas of many refugees to be able to continue seamlessly their professional successes. Barschak even though it was possible to continue their academic career in the United States.

Works

• Erna Barschak: The student vocational school and its environment. Paper presented at the girl professional school of the General German teachers association in Dresden on October 4, 1925, (Pedagogical - psychological Series of the general German teachers association, 2), Berlin 1926.
• Erna Barschak: The idea of vocational education and its impact on the professional education in the industry. Leipzig 1929.
• Barschak Erna: The German - literary classes at commercial technical and vocational schools ( commercial fonts for education, 3), Leipzig 1925.
• Erna Barschak: My American Adventure, New York, 1945.
• Erna Barschak: Today's Industrial Nurse and Her job. A Study of Functions of Nurses and Their Relationship to Industry, New York 1956.
• Fritz Bamberger and Erna Barschak: The 9th year of the folk high schools of the Jewish Community of Berlin. Objectives and schedules. Berlin 1937.