Surviving the Holocaust, she helps others survive the horror of Alzheimer’s
Olga Lipschitz Pioneered the Care and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease at Cobble Hill Health Center
Olga Lipschitz learned the importance of administration from at a very early age.
In 1940, Olga’s father Benjamin Spitzer left the family in their native Hungary to travel to America where he would work until he earned enough money to send tickets for their passage away from the growing peril of war and repression. Benjamin did well. By late 1941, he had saved enough money to send tickets for the whole family. His wife gathered their children and set out for Budapest and the American embassy to await the visas that would permit them entry into the safety of the New World.
“We waited there all day,” she recalled. “Until a man in charge came out and told us there would be no more travel. The Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Now America was in the war, too.”