遲到的證書 102歲婦女獲德國博士學位

A 102-year-old German woman has become the world's oldest person to be awarded a doctorate on Tuesday, almost 80 years after the Nazis prevented her from sitting her final exam。

週二，在納粹組織她參加期末考試的80年後，一名102歲的德國婦女成爲世界上獲得博士學位時年紀最大的人。

Ingeborg Rapoport (then Syllm) finished her Medical studies in 1937 and wrote her doctoral thesis on diphtheria - a serious problem in Germany at the time。

英格博格·拉波波特(後改姓希爾姆)在1937年完成了醫學專業的學習，她的畢業論文內容是德國當時的嚴重問題——白喉。

But because of Nazi oppression she has had to wait almost eight decades before being awarded her PhD。

但因爲納粹的壓迫，她不得不等候了幾乎80年纔拿到博士學位。

Her mother was a Jewish pianist。

她的母親是一名猶太畫家。

So, under Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic race laws, Ingeborg was refused entry to the final oral exam. She had written confirmation from Hamburg University that she would have received her doctorate "if the applicable laws did not prohibit Ms Syllm's admission to the doctoral exam due to her ancestry"。

因此，在阿道夫·希特勒的反閃族法律下，英格博特被拒絕參加最後答辯。漢堡大學發給她的書面確認承認，“如果不是適用的法律因希爾姆女士的血統禁止她參加博士答辯”，她本應獲得博士學位。

Now the university has set right that wrong。

現在漢堡大學改正了這個錯誤。

Three professors from Hamburg University's medical faculty travelled last month to Ingeborg's sitting room in east Berlin to test her on the work she carried out in pre-war Germany。

上個月，三名漢堡大學醫學系教授來到英格博特位於東柏林的家中，在客廳裏對她戰前做的研究工作進行考試。

They were impressed and a special ceremony took place at Hamburg University Medical Centre on Tuesday, in which she finally received the PhD that the Nazis stole from her。

英格博特給他們留下了深刻的印象。週二，漢堡大學醫學中心舉行了一個特殊的儀式，授予她被納粹偷走的博士學位。

"It was about the principle," she said. "I didn't want to defend my thesis for my own sake. After all, at the age of 102 all of this wasn't exactly easy for me. I did it for the victims [of the Nazis]."

英格博特說：“這關乎原則。從我個人角度，我並不想做答辯。畢竟到了102歲的年紀，答辯對我來說可不容易。我做這些事爲了(納粹的)受害者。”