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Gisela Konopka (1910 – 2003) — Social Group Worker, Researcher, Educator and Author

by Rhoda G.

Lewin

January 21, 2011

 

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. That arrogance is wrong.

The collection contains both the personal and professional papers of Gisela Konopka.

Gisela Konopka () was born in Germany of Polish Jewish parents who had fled the pogroms in Poland; active in German youth movements before the rise of.

Gisela Konopka () made a profound contribution to the development of social group work and the deepening of practice with children and young people.

She was born in Berlin, Germany, and was a resistance fighter during World War II. She was interviewed in for MPR's Voices of Minnesota.

This article explores social work in the United States as a refuge for women exiles from Nazi-occupied Europe using the case study of German-born Gisela Konopka.

What is important is what a person is, and does, for the community.”

Born February 11, 1910 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 (1907–c.

1995) and Ruth (1916–1940). They lived in two rooms attached to the store, and after her father died in 1935 her mother, who spoke German, Polish and Russian fluently and was a