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Konopka, Gisela
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Gisela Konopka ( &#; ) &#; Social Group Worker, Researcher, Educator and Author
by Rhoda G. Lewin
January 21,
Gisela Konopka’s outstanding career in youth and adolescent services, social work, education and history is reflected in her litany: “All my life I have been fighting for justice, and for respect for all people.
I abhor any arrogance related to race, religion, nationality, appearance, sex, age, intelligence, profession, money.
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That arrogance is wrong. What is important is what a person is, and does, for the community.”
Born February 11, in Berlin, Germany to Mendel Peiper and Bronia (née Butterman) who had left Poland to escape anti-Jewish pogroms, and who owned a little grocery store, Gisela Peiper had two sisters, Hanna (–c.
) and Ruth (–). They lived in two rooms attached to the store, and after her father died in her mother, who spoke German, Polish and Russian fluently and was a dedicated reader, although she had not been al