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Erna Ecsktein-Schlossmann (1895–1998) and Albert Eckstein (1891–1950), an established pediatrician couple from Düsseldorf, had to leave Nazi Germany and emigrate to Ankara with their three children at the end of 1935. The Ecksteins would spend the next fifteen years in Turkey, contributing significantly to issues of infant mortality, child health, and social hygiene. Drawing on the Eckstein family archives at Heinrich-Heine-Universität (HHU) Düsseldorf, Turkish state archives, Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann's research publications, Albert Eckstein’s research trip photographs at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies Research Library and Archives, and contemporary literature, this paper offers an intersectional interpretation of migration and conceptualizes Erna's migration to Turkey along gendered lines. This micro-historical reconstruction acknowledges her agency and subjectivity as a highly skilled migrant woman, interweaves her life story with the larger dynamics of migrant networks in Turkey, and brings it into dialogue with macro-level structural factors related to World War II, mass murder, and the global displacement of European Jews.

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Rural Child Welfare, Gendered Community Work, and Intersectionality: Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s Migration from Nazi Germany to Turkey

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    2025年

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  • Nazan Maksudyan

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Erna Ecsktein-Schlossmann (1895–1998) and Albert Eckstein (1891–1950), an established pediatrician couple from Düsseldorf, had to leave Nazi Germany and emigrate to Ankara with their three children at the end of 1935. The Ecksteins would spend the next fifteen years in Turkey, contributing significantly to issues of infant mortality, child health, and social hygiene. Drawing on the Eckstein family archives at Heinrich-Heine-Universität (HHU) Düsseldorf, Turkish state archives, Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann's research publications, Albert Eckstein’s research trip photographs at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies Research Library and Archives, and contemporary literature, this paper offers an intersectional interpretation of migration and conceptualizes Erna's migration to Turkey along gendered lines. This micro-historical reconstruction acknowledges her agency and subjectivity as a highly skilled migrant woman, interweaves her life story with the larger dynamics of migrant networks in Turkey, and brings it into dialogue with macro-level structural factors related to World War II, mass murder, and the global displacement of European Jews.