Stephan Heinrich Nolte

Dr. Stephan Heinrich Nolte, born in 1955, worked as a pediatrician in Marburg for 30 years before retiring in 2022. He studied medicine and cultural studies in Göttingen, Freiburg and Paris and then completed his specialist training in Freiburg before becoming a senior consultant at the University Children's Hospital in Marburg from 1990 to 1992. During his residency, he completed psychotherapeutic training and gained international experience in Rwanda, Calcutta and Nepal. Since his retirement, his research has focused on the history of pediatrics with an emphasis on Eastern Europe, National Socialism and medical ethics. He is married and has five children and ten grandchildren.

Amore Studii. Out of love of learning

The legend of Nawojka, Poland’s first female student

In the Middle Ages, even though no formal education for females existed, we know that there were powerful and educated women.

26.05.2025

Auf einem Gehweg im Warschauer Ghetto liegendes, in Lumpen gekleidetes Kind, umgeben von Passanten, darunter weiteren Kindern. Das Foto wurde im Mai 1941 durch Ludwig Knobloch, einem Fotografen einer deutschen Propagandakompanie aufgenommen

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Innocent but sentenced to death

Children in the Warsaw Ghetto

During the Shoah, over a million Jewish children were mercilessly murdered by the National Socialists and their accomplices. Their extermination was preceded by processes of marginalization, disenfranchisement and deportations to camps and ghettos under indescribable conditions. But what was...