Schloffer Eva

Daughter of the Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Gross and his wife Frieda, although her biological father was the Swiss Ernst Frick. After she grew up and left home, Eva Gross had to change her name, choosing to rename herself Eva Schloffer. She was the "trial child" who Otto Gross father, the professor of criminology Hans Gross, had declared illegitimate. Schloffer trained to be a medical laboratory technician in Berlin, then worked for twelve years in Zurich as a doctors assistant with a gynecologist. In 1946, she was awarded citizenship of the city of Zurich. From 1947, she worked for many years as a housekeeper for families until finally in 1958 she found her last position with the Swiss Refugee Aid, where she worked until her retirement in 1975. She died on on 5 February 2005 after a short illness. Read less