Physicians -- Wisconsin -- Biography

Content Description Collection documents the life and literary works of Walter Lewinnek (1911/1912–2000), a German-born Jewish physician and amateur writer who emigrated from Berlin to the United States in 1934 and practiced family medicine in Merrill, Wisconsin, for over five decades.The memoir "Thinking It Over" (1972 or 1973), a typescript of 110 pages, forms the central item in the collection. In it, Lewinnek recounts his Berlin childhood, medical education in Heidelberg and Berlin, emigration...