Blumenthal Sofia (Sophie) (November 24, 1899, Riga – ?) - Doctor of Scientific Psychology

Before World War I, Sofia Blumenthal lived with her parents in Leipzig. She earned her doctorate in scientific psychology under the mentorship of Wilhelm Wundt. Sofia Blumenthal was a Rockefeller Fellow, writer, and lecturer on German broadcasting systems until 1933, when Hitler took control of the media.

In 1934, Sofia married Hermann Blumenthal and moved to Breslau. In 1938, six weeks after the birth of their daughter, her husband was taken to Buchenwald. Through cunning, Blumenthal secured the release of her husband and eight others. She witnessed the Kristallnacht pogrom and struggled to obtain exit visas from Germany. Eventually, they reached Lisbon and then sailed on the coal steamer “Muzino” to the United States, arriving after ten days. She and her husband may have been the last Jews who managed to leave Leipzig.

In the U.S., Blumenthal worked as a physiotherapist, while her husband, a metallurgist, maintained heating boilers. In 1960, after their daughter's marriage, they moved to Seattle, where Hermann worked as an engineer and Sofia practiced psychology. That same year, she attended an international psychology congress in Germany—the first such event on German soil after the Holocaust.